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Today on The Outline: Poll workers emphasize recruitment during the national holiday. Also, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders met with the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus yesterday to address the controversy surrounding the AP African American History Course's future in the state. Plus, a trail run on Mt. Nebo this weekend offers cooler temperatures for runners.
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On today's show, how an idea from a magazine became a system of Friendly Fridges in Northwest Arkansas. Plus, a guide to becoming a sustainable runner, updates from the latest Illinois River Watershed stakeholders meeting and TheatreSquared's new season opens with a nefarious plan.
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More people in the United States die every year from heat than tornadoes and hurricanes combined. Heat waves can be dangerous for everybody, but especially for people living with lung diseases.
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Today's Ozarks at Large features a conversation with Andrew Boyd about his new book, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor. Plus, NWA Fashion Week begins, remembering singer songwriter Clare Starr, Teamsters and ABF Freight reach a tentative agreement, and more.
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Andrew Boyd's new book, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor, considers how to best mitigate a growing global challenge.
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FEMA is urging more people to invest in flood insurance as sever weather becomes more frequent.
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Some Northwest Arkansas cities are focusing on preventing urban storm water runoff. This water can lead to erosion, a problem landowners experience, and increased sediment in waterways. Ozarks at Large’s Anna Pope spoke with water experts about storm water basics, its impact and the efforts in place to tackle storm water.
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This week's archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History focus on reporting about climate change from more than 20 years ago.
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In 1997 Randy Dixon and a small crew from KATV traveled to Barrow, Alaska to do a report on a changing climate. This week Randy brings us archives from that trip and new interviews to help gauge what the climate has done in the past quarter century.
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Next fall a University of Arkansas Honors College Signature Seminar Series will examine past interactions between societies and changing climate. Dr. Ben Vining, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, will lead the seminar “Climate Change: A Human History” and also deliver a public preview Monday at 5:15 pm.