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Dark age
Britt Stromberg • 1 card
Parts of California’s Central Valley have fallen by nearly thirty feet as the aquifers beneath them have emptied, and areas of Louisiana, robbed of the Mississippi River sediment that once counteracted erosion, are sinking by as much as three-quarters of an inch per year.
Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”
Biodiversity
Julien Jacques • 4 cards
‘Derecho’
Derecho saw higher than usual lookups early in the week as severe weather was forecast in parts of the United States.
Derecho refers to a large, fast-moving complex of thunderstorms with powerful straight-line winds that cause ... See more
Derecho saw higher than usual lookups early in the week as severe weather was forecast in parts of the United States.
Severe Storms, and a Possible Derecho, Threaten the Northern Plains
(headline), The New York Times , 28 July 2025
Derecho refers to a large, fast-moving complex of thunderstorms with powerful straight-line winds that cause ... See more
The Words of the Week - Aug. 1
Community
taylor • 4 cards
English terminology, specific to a humid climate, proved incapable of accurately capturing the dialectic of water and drought that shapes Mediterranean environments. By no stretch of the imagination, for example, is an arroyo merely a “glen” or “hollow”—they are the results of radically different hydrological processes.*
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Burnout
SWE Resources • 1 card
Grief
Mary Christine Ebrado • 1 card