‘Real threat to city’: Yellowknife in Canada evacuates as... 20,000 residents of capital of Northwest Territories orde...

Friday.

#brittleness

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/16/canada...

nytimes.com

infrastructure.

#brittleness

www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/cali...

"Is that our number then? $187 billion?"

Oh no, sweet summer child. Not even close.

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#brittleness #ruggedization #climate

Evaluation Approach of #Rock #Brittleness Index for Fracturing Acidizing Based on #Energy Evolution Theory and Damage Constitutive Relation

Jin, S. et al.
Lithosphere (2021) 2021 (Special 4): 2864940.

doi.org/10.2113/2021/2…

How's the drought going here in the West, you ask?

#climatechange #planetarycrisis #brittleness #water

Image: @JoshEdelson

Record rains, floods mean "unprecedented" acres of corn will not be planted this year.

"Corn futures surged more than 20% to a three-year high over the past few weeks on fears farmers wouldn’t be able to get seeds in the ground..."

#brittleness...

1,300 people still missing amidst the wreckage left by Hurricane Michael last week.

"Everyone needs help. We're devastated out here. We're wiped off the map..."

#climate #brittleness
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