Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Second-Lowest on Record | The Weather Channel
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Second-Lowest on Record | The Weather Channel
"This is not good"
Your lifestyle is making blue box recycling unsustainable | CBC News
"Do you read your news online? Enjoy takeout? Live in an apartment building? Canadians’ changing lifestyles have transformed what we put in the blue bin. And that’s led to big challenges — and ballooning costs — for municipal recycling programs."
Spotlight News – Invasive, destructive southern pine beetle found in the Pine Bush
This is really bad news. 😡
"A southern pine beetle, 🐞 which has killed thousands of pine trees on Long Island since it was discovered in 2014, was trapped in the Pine Bush, the northernmost location the invasive, destructive beetles have ever been found in this country."
"According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the single beetle was caught in a trap near Rapp Road. It is considered one of the most destructive forest pests in the U.S. and attacks several species of pine tree including pitch pine, a species that flourishes in the Pine Bush and other pine barrens throughout the state."
Causeway extension to allow another pier to be built for massive thruway bridge | PennLive.com
They've been building some really big flyover bridges in Pennsylvania.
To give you an idea of how truly large the 160-feet high flyover ramp they are building in Salinsgrove, PA, that ramp is nearly twice the height of the Dunn Memorial Flyover Ramp to the Empire Sate Plaza in Albany (85 feet high piers). Appalachian topography demands some massive bridges to keep expressways within the required maximum grades.
The new US 219 (Mason Dixon Highway) Flyerover bridges in Meyersdale are pretty massive too.
Under Trump’s watch, national debt tops $21 trillion for first time ever – CBS News
"Only a year ago, President Trump promised to eliminate the national debt in 8 years, but it has just hit a dizzying new historical high"