130760 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://theconversation.com/bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-begins-to-address-consequences-of-a-warming-planet-3-essential-reads-163617to a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal that recognizes the risks of climate change and the need to make America’s coasts more resilient. On July 28, 2021, a bipartisan group of senators who have been working on the package for weeks announced an agreement on “major issues” of the plan. The bill still has a long way to go before becoming law.2021-07-29T00:41+0200theconversation-us-3191d6a7bfd9a236ff27f594271f0b5120210729004100https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2021/07/29/mil-osi-global-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-begins-to-address-consequences-of-a-warming-planet-3-essential-reads/– By Bryan Keogh, Senior Editor, Economy + Business. A lot of coastal infrastructure wasn’t designed for the frequent flooding and crashing waves brought by rising seas. to a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal that recognizes the risks of climate change and the need to make America’s coasts more resilient.2021-07-29T00:20+0200foreignaffairs-nz-c046975e322f101791248f9a022813cc20210729002000https://newsdome.co.za/floods-are-a-climate-emergency-wake-up-call-that-must-shock-us-into-action-labourlist/Extreme weather happening more often is an urgent sign that all is not well with our planet. We are in the middle of a climate and ecological emergency, which means we need our government here in the UK, and governments around the world, to do more to cut carbon and protect nature.2021-07-28T19:08+0200dailymaverick-71b37bb7305e67ac7e7cd592c2b6095620210728190800https://menafn.com/1102524756/Small-climate-changes-can-have-devastating-local-consequences-it-happened-in-the-Little-Ice-Age&source=24- The Conversation) In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway tunnels in China, swept through northwestern Africa and triggered deadly landslides in India and Japan . Heat and drought fanned wildfires in the North American West....2021-07-28T08:22+0200menafn-79f0b0ad3b396e068f58793e58f1e44420210728082200