A natural gas company urged Australia to forget its climate defense target so that the company can drill.

The Markup investigated 80,000 popular web sites and reports on how much they snoop on users. Almost 70,000 had third-party trackers. 5,000 fingerprinted the browser to identify users. 12,000 recorded the user's mouse clicks and movements.

California could experience a series of atmospheric rivers that would add up to an enormous flood, that could flood millions of people's homes.

As global heating continues, the likelihood of such a flood will increase.

The FBI raid on the corrupter's home was looking for secret documents that nobody was allowed to take home, and it found quite a few.

The interaction between waves and shore is a complex system; a sea wall can prevent erosion at one point while exacerbating it elsewhere in the region. Scientists are developing permeable obstacles that slow down the ocean waves, to protect shore and land from erosion.

These measures can be effective against erosion, but not against inundation. Therefore, they are temporary expedients, presuming that we curb global heating and prevent the coming inundation.

Inland wetlands can buffer against floods and drought (and therefore also against fire).

I am skeptical of the "biodiversity net gain" requirement. Constructing a new wetland is surely not as simple as it sounds, so it is likely that businesses will often follow the rules but produce no real new wetland. If a development has destroyed an old wetland and failed to create a new one, what does the government do?