Four ways technology will change how we commute in the future

By 2019, residents of Columbus could see autonomous shuttles cruising the Easton commercial district, motion-sensitive LED streetlights that also provide free Wi-Fi internet to the residential neighborhood of Linden, and 175 smart traffic signals that aim to ease traffic jams and speed first-responders’ paths through the city. Residents will also be able to use one app to plan and pay for trips that require multiple types of public transportation.  https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/17/urban-transportation-uber-lyft-smart-cities-san-Francisco
Article courtesy of The Guardian by Matthew Wheeland

Daimler unit to pay $28.5 million to settle U.S. Clean Air Act claims

Detroit Diesel Corp, a unit of automaker Daimler AG, will spend $14.5 million to reduce pollutants and pay a $14 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the U.S. Clean Air Act, the Justice Department said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-pollution-idUSKCN1261RF
Article courtesy of Reuters by David Shepardson

Hurricane Matthew: With Miami behind it, Hurricane Matthew pushes up Florida coast.

As it plowed up the coast, Hurricane Matthew largely spared South Florida on Thursday and into Friday morning but cut a razor-thin path that still threatened to make history: the first major hurricane on record to strike Central Florida’s east coast.  http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article106500877.htmlArticle courtesy of The Miami Herald By David Ovalle, Jenny Staletovich and Nicholas Nehamas

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Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

That paradox was much on my mind during a recent visit back to Vietnam’s fabulously fertile Mekong Delta, a soggy plain the size of Switzerland. Here the livelihood of 20 percent of Vietnam’s 92 million people is gravely threatened by climate change and by a manmade catastrophe, the seemingly unstoppable damming of the upper reaches of the Mekong River.   https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/will-climate-change-sink-the-mekong-delta/
Article courtesy of Mongabay by David Brown

NASA Warnings About Climate Change Hit Home: Kennedy Space Center Threatened By Rising Sea Levels

Climate change is perhaps one of the most dangerous threats to the future of American space flight, as it turns out. Alongside some of the more banal concerns that face NASA on a regular basis (like budgetary allowances) and those events that are a bit less common (rockets blowing up, for instance) is the steadily rising nearby sea and the increased likelihood of intense storms brought on by global warming.  http://www.ibtimes.com/
Article courtesy of International Business Times by Clark Mindock

Global Warming Trend Warms the U.S. West, Leaves East Shivering

A pattern of warm and dry winters in the West, paired with frigid conditions in the East, has become more frequent since 1980, a trend that reflects the influence of global warming on the atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27092016/global-warming-trend-warms-only-us-west-leaves-east-shivering
Article courtesy of Inside Climate New by Bob Berwyn

Greenland's receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project

A top-secret US military project from the cold war and the toxic waste it conceals, thought to have been buried forever beneath the Greenland icecap, are likely to be uncovered by rising temperatures within decades, scientists have said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-project-iceworm
Article courtesy of The Guardian by Jon Henley