Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Reading archive 2021-08-04

Opinion: How many violence-prevention programs are enough for D.C.?  - "The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, in partnership with the Public Welfare Foundation, recently published an analysis of the various violence-reduction programs — close to 70 — funded and at work in the city. The report concluded, 'many of these programs and services may be uncoordinated, disjointed, and unintentionally serving a duplicative client base. All the while, those at the highest risk and need appear to not be connected to needed services.'"

Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones, satellite imagery shows: A new study finds that the proportion of people living in flood zones has grown dramatically, and could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Virtually all emperor penguin colonies doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds - "An emperor penguin colony in the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea was effectively wiped out in 2016 because of record-low sea ice and early ice breakup, Jenouvrier said. More than 10,000 chicks are thought to have drowned when the sea ice broke up before they were ready to swim. A British Antarctic Survey base in the area has been mothballed in recent years, partly because of fears the nearby ice could soon calve one or more giant icebergs into the ocean, the BBC reported."

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