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Sell at a loss to developers or pay massively? LA homeowners struggle: Witham and her husband bought their four-bedroom home in the Palisades in 1999 for $1.2 million. Rebuilding now it would be tough — and expensive - around $3.8 million. www.marketwatch.com/story/l-a-fi...

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LA fire cleanup complications: FEMA says that they are unwilling to pay for soil testing because they believe that there might be legacy contamination www.npr.org/2025/02/23/n...

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Our new #article with Anaya Joshi: Corralling a chimera: a critical review of the term social infrastructure TL;DR: social infrastructure = spaces that involve high stewardship, cultivating trust, enhancing cooperation, social cohesion and social capital www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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Will LA actually build back better? Many seek fire proofing and other architectural and design approaches to mitigate the next urban conflagration www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

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Insurance hell: significant number of flood-related consumer complaints relating to timely payment of claims, inaccurate claims payments and post-claims underwriting after Florida extreme weather events www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/s...

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Cutting off aid for the underrepresented: U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website shows that it has suspended a scholarship program for students who enroll at Tennessee State University and other land-grant historically Black colleges www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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Help document the costs of Trump's attack on science by filling in information on grad school programs that are cutting back admissions or suspending them docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Chasing a pipe dream: nuclear firms seek future while past efforts to jump start a "renaissance" of nuclear power plants in the U.S. have stalled in the face of long delays, steep cost overruns and canceled projects www.cnbc.com/2025/02/23/w...

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The true cost of this loss extends far beyond bricks and mortar. We are witnessing the gradual disappearance of historic coastal cities, with Alexandria sounding the alarm. What once seemed like distant climate risks are now a present reality www.earth.com/news/rising-...

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Trump undoing US science capacity : for most of the past century, the United States has been the global leader in scientific discovery. In just the last five years, US scientists won more Nobel Prizes than the rest of the world combined. An end of an era www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Interested in studying #resilient cities, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism? Apply to our MS Resilience studies program at @Northeastern - online and onground options and scholarships available graduate.northeastern.edu/programs/ms-...

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Trump's attack on science has more trickle down consequences for higher education: The University of Pittsburgh joins other programs in pausing its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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New #article from Tatjana Neuhuber et al: Stratification of Livability: A Framework for Analyzing Differences in Income, Consumption, and Social Infrastructure TL;DR: Socioeconomic stat and regional context notably influence this stratification in livability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New #article from Chen et al: US Presidential Election Competitiveness and Health Outcomes TL;DR: closely contested elections = improved health outcomes: higher vaccination and mammography rates, as well as lower rates of preventable hospital stays www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...

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New #article from Bojaj et al: Prevalence of COVID-19 during 2021 in Prishtina, Kosovo: a population-based study TL;DR: factors like existing health conditions, household size, behavior, and the # of infected members as important determinants of COVID-19 dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tjfmp...

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Just another day in a South African parking lot

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Blackmail: Zelenskyy refused to sign the agreement, making it clear Washington had to give security guarantees before any deal could be reached on the country’s vast natural resources, about 5% of global mineral reserves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Trump froze federal grants for everything from battery factories to electric school buses and solar panels. Republican-voting communities have benefited the most from that law with 80 percent of those investments in Republican congressional districts www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/n...

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Trump cuts to science trickle down to universities: UCSD freezes hiring amongst $200 million in losses www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Clashes over covering smoke damage have become a growing issue in recent years as wildfires intensify and home insurance companies look for ways to limit their financial responsibility www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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New #article from Keller et al: Heterogeneous Effects of Cyclones on Households’ Welfare: Evidence from Madagascar TL;DR: households strategically allocated resources towards food expenses against non-food expenditures during crises www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New #article from Albaek: The importance of generalized trust for mortality and economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe TL;DR: increase in trust by one standard deviation corresponds to a reduction in the COVID-19 death rate by 43%. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Our #article with Fraser et al: A tale of many cities: Mapping social infrastructure and social capital across the US TL;DR: Social infrastructure - places where we build connections like parks - positively linked to bridging social capital. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Trump breaks law with intended takeover of the US Postal System www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Foreign aid isn’t just charity. It’s power. And Trump is undermining the ability of the US to project influence abroad www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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Trump is following an authoritarian playbook for destroying constitutional government that has been widely deployed over the last two decades and that in some respects dates back not only to the calamities of the ‘30s but all the way to Machiavelli www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...

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Attack on Green Peace by Energy Transfer is classic strategic lawsuit against public participation– a form of civil litigation increasingly deployed by corporations, politicians and the wealthy to silence critics including journalists and activists www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Climate change consequences : world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 346 billion tons (314 billion metric tons) annually over about the next decade apnews.com/article/glac...

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Trump attacks high speed rail: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) told to conduct a thorough review of the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) and its progress on the high-speed rail project connecting Merced and Bakersfield www.actionnewsnow.com/news/coverin...

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Trump's attacks on the government put our lives at risk : administration is slashing federal staff who keep our food safe. Inspectors are already overworked and understaffed. Foodborne illnesses hospitalize 100,000 and cause 3,000 deaths each year cleantechnica.com/2025/02/19/h...

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Sabotaging our ability to progress: government funding — essential for fundamental scientific inquiry — has withered from its Space Race peak of nearly 2 percent to just 0.7 percent and is being cut further under Trump www.aei.org/economics/wh...

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Single home owning San Franciscans continue to oppose higher density housing in NIMBY movements www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

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Undermining disaster recovery: Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...

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Disastrous markets: Along with the half billion in extra fees that they'll be paying to cover the FAIR insurance shortfalls, 600,000 Californians will be paying higher insurance fees www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

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