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West Antarctic ice melt poses unique threat to U.S.
https://www.axios.com/losing-ice-from-west-antarctica-threatens-us-coast-e2beb1aa-d68a-4c50-acf1-e716e66d5403.html


Antarctica’s ice is melting 3 times faster than in 2007
Antarctica is melting so fast, scientists say, that it will contribute 6 inches to sea-level rise by 2100.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/antarcticas-ice-is-melting-3-times-faster-than-in-2007/


New York’s attorney general filed suit against President Trump and his three eldest children Thursday, alleging “persistently illegal conduct” at the president’s personal charity and saying that Trump had repeatedly misused the nonprofit organization to pay off his businesses’ creditors, to decorate one of his golf clubs and to stage a multimillion-dollar giveaway at 2016 campaign events.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-files-suit-against-president-trump-alleging-his-charity-engaged-in-illegal-conduct/2018/06/14/c3cbf71e-6fc9-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c95c07ce4887


Combining fat and carbs overloads the brain and makes us overeat
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/combining-fat-carbs-overloads-brain-makes-us-overeat-n883201


According to a recent paper, relaxing land use regulations in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City could increase the average U.S. worker’s income by almost $9,000 a year and add trillions to the economy.
Economists Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago and Enrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkeley argue that U.S. workers are poorer because certain cities use zoning to constrain their housing supply, limiting the number of workers who can share in those cities’ economic success. They conclude that these exclusionary zoning policies lowered the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by more than 50 percent between 1964 and 200
https://www.theregreview.org/2018/06/14/somogyi-zoning-codes-gdp/


Disposable wipes – essentially baby wipes designed for adults – have become the scourge of residential and municipal sewer systems around the world.
Nonwoven cloths have been getting stuck in pipes and sewer machinery, creating massive, expensive clogs in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, London and many other places for years, sparking lawsuits from cities and consumers.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/26/disposable-wipes-sewer-toilet-cities-flushable


Human disturbance is turning mammals into night owls, with species becoming more nocturnal when people are around, research has revealed.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/14/human-activity-making-mammals-more-nocturnal-study-finds


A new NASA-led study shows that climate change is likely to intensify extreme weather events known as atmospheric rivers across most of the globe by the end of this century, while slightly reducing their number.
The new study projects atmospheric rivers will be significantly longer and wider than the ones we observe today, leading to more frequent atmospheric river conditions in affected areas.
https://skepticalscience.com/2018-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_21.html