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50 ways that Trump has attacked the environment in his first 100 days

Fast Company Tech

April 28: The Trump administration “released” the scientists who were working on a national report about how climate change affects the United States. April 11: The Trump administration announced plans to end climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including data used to predict hurricanes.

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How NYC entertainers and creatives are driving fire aid for Los Angeles

Fast Company Tech

The deadly Los Angeles wildfires had just begun when Comic Relief U.S.’s Inspired, Ganeless saw an opportunity to help out from the nations other cultural hub through Stand-Up for LA. The six weeks since Los Angeles’ most destructive wildfires have proven no different.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies. Financing the future startup nation. Sick of your ISP?

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AI-generated images can be art. They just can’t be photos

Fast Company Tech

He made the news by selling an image hed created using AI to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it will be included in an upcoming exhibit called Queer Lens: A History of Photography. And last year, during Hurricane Helene, an AI-generated image of a sobbing child and adorable puppy being rescued via boat went viral on Twitter.

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This California neighborhood will soon be certified as wildfire resistant—the first in the country to meet that standard

Fast Company Tech

The wildfires that blazed through Los Angeles earlier this year, some of the fastest-spreading fires on record, underscored the risk of living in homes known to be at high risk for future fires. One national homebuilder, KB Home, believes that risk can be reduced by building a wildfire-resilient neighborhood.

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How to build resilient water systems in communities battling climate change

Fast Company Tech

Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. asked Tome, a citizen who grew up in the community of Ganado, Arizona, in the nation’s largest Native American reservation at 27,000 square miles (69,930 square kilometers) in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

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This L.A. photographer is still capturing the ongoing devastation from January’s fires

Fast Company Tech

In the early morning hours of January 7, 2025, Mario Tama, a Getty Images photographer based in Los Angeles, was woken up by intense winds. The wildfires that broke out that day were just the beginning of a series of catastrophic blazes that burned through Los Angeles County. And Tama was there to capture them.