Kira Bindrim
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Managing Editor for Bloomberg Weekend | alum of @climate @qz @newsweek @reuters | routinely mocking things at https://t.co/jz7dLNtoAa
new york
Joined January 2009
RT @Zhirji28: Life at 100F+.- Teachers wearing ice packs at school dismissal.- Early morning workouts and errand runs.- Changing how you ea….
bloomberg.com
From 6 a.m. errands and rejiggered commutes to new hydration tactics and a boom in air conditioning, heat wave workarounds are the new normal.
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RT @BloombergLive: On challenges youth activists face, "It's easy to not listen to the things that we're saying - the things that we're say….
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RT @LauraMillanL: More than 15,000 Libyans ended up dead or missing in a single night as a climate-fueled storm made landfall in the coasta….
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More than 15,000 Libyans ended up dead or missing as a result of a single night of flooding, a stark demonstration of what happens when warming temperatures collide with aging infrastructure and...
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RT @Zhirji28: A new @ClimateCentral study makes clear what many scientists and others had already intuited: climate change's fingerprints a….
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Over the past three months, nearly half of the global population experienced at least 30 days of hot temperatures made more likely by climate change.
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Americans on average are expected to eat 100 pounds of chicken this year
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RT @Zhirji28: After big tornados or floods, it’s common for communities to band together to recover. But something darker can happen after….
bloomberg.com
In the Ohio town where a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in February, recovery efforts are undercut by lingering uncertainty.
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"We basically are saying that it has become too late to save the Arctic summer sea ice. There’s nothing really we can do about this complete loss anymore, because we’ve been waiting for too long.”
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Scientists say the loss of the region’s summer sea ice is imminent and can’t be stopped even with deep emission cuts.
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RT @greenwombat: My latest: Mass timber buildings are significantly more sustainable than carbon-intensive concrete or steel. But can a hig….
bloomberg.com
To learn how sustainable timber high-rises respond to seismic forces, researchers put one on the world’s largest “shake table.”
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.@greenwombat wrote about the thousands of species imperiled by deep-sea mining, one of which will live in my nightmares
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RT @Quicktake: Would you drink beer made from recycled wastewater? . We asked our colleagues to try it out https://….
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RT @Zhirji28: Good news: The world can successfully keep global warming below 2C if every country meets their climate pledges made through….
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Staving off a 2C future is still doable, scientists find, but will require all countries to meet their stated goals for slashing pollution through 2030 and beyond.
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RT @LauraMillanL: FEATURE: Competition for increasingly scarce water resources is sparking fights in Spain. It's a sign of what's coming fo….
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Fights over scarce water resources in southern Spain are likely to play out elsewhere in the region as extremely hot and dry weather strikes more often.
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