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[View this email in your browser]( Wednesday, March 1, 2023 “We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not bother.” — Jane Goodall Back-to-Back Hurricanes Are Already More Likely, but the Chances Will Surge as the Climate Warms In October of 2020, the town of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was in the process of recovering from [Hurricane Laura]( a Category 4 storm that had damaged nearly every structure in the town six weeks earlier. Then Category 2 Hurricane Delta bore down, flooding several of the already damaged buildings. “Add Laura and Delta together and it’s just absolutely unprecedented and catastrophic,” Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter told The Associated Press at the time. [Read More]( Related: [Extreme Weather 101: Everything You Need to Know]( Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Sees Its Worst February on Record as Lula Struggles With Bolsonaro’s Legacy Despite the electoral victory of [President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]( — who has promised to end [deforestation]( in the [Brazilian Amazon]( by 2030 — the forest just experienced its worst February on record. Brazil’s INPE space research institute’s DETER monitoring system found that 80.6 square miles of [forest]( had been cleared as of Feb. 17, as AFP reported, an area equal to around 30,000 football fields. However, WWF Brazil expert Daniel Silva said the record deforestation might not be all it seemed. [Read More]( Related: [Lula Defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil, a Crucial Win for the Amazon Rainforest]( U.S. Averages One Chemical Accident Every Two Days, Analysis Finds From spills to fires at industrial facilities to the recent [train derailment in Ohio]( it seems chemical accidents are making the news more and more. But it’s not just your imagination — a map by the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters shows that chemical accidents are happening at a rate of one every two days in the U.S. The [Chemical Facility Incidents map]( allows viewers to see chemical-related incidents in their local areas. The coalition noted, “On average, there is a chemical fire, explosion or toxic release every two days in the U.S.” [Read More]( Related: [Train Derailments Get More Headlines, But Truck Crashes Involving Hazardous Chemicals Are More Frequent and Deadly in U.S.]( If Your Strawberries Taste Bland, Pesticides May Be to Blame If you’ve ever bitten into a juicy, red strawberry only to find that it was watery and somewhat flavorless, certain pesticides could be to blame. In a recent [study]( scientists found that two common fungicides used on [strawberries]( — boscalid (BOS) and difenoconazole (DIF) — can affect the fruit’s cellular mechanisms and mute its sweetness and overall flavor while lowering the berry’s nutritional value. [Read More]( Related: [Strawberries Smaller When Pollinated by Bees That Ingest Pesticides]( Climate Change Could Threaten Global Internet Connections The extraction and [combustion of fossil fuels]( [pollutes]( the [air we breathe]( while the impacts of climate change could actually deprive us of something at least as elemental to life as we know it — the internet. New research published in [Earth-Science Reviews]( warns damage from extreme weather events, and the impacts of melting [polar]( [sea ice]( could damage transglobal undersea cables. [Read More]( Related: [Sea Level Rise Could Sink Internet Infrastructure]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2023 EcoWatch, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for EcoWatch Top News of The Day Our mailing address is: EcoWatch 1122 Oberlin RoadRaleigh, NC 27605 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](