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CLIMATE CHANGE
“A different world” with global warming
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
David Goldman, The Associated Press
SALIDA» We were warned. ¶ On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congre...
Vancouver city council this week targeted single-use plastic items, such as straws, but researchers wonder why the straw has been singled out when there are hundreds of plastic items making their way into the environment.Researchers have cited balloons, food containers, plastic cutlery and piec...
A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O’Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation’s air ...
ANTARCTICA
Ice sheet in rapid melt since 1992
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
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This photograph, taken in 2010, shows crevasses near the edge of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. Ian Joughin, University of Washing...
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EPA changes could cause 80,000 more deaths per decade
By Eric Roston
Bloomberg
Two Harvard social scientists, writing an opinion column in a prominent medical journal, have put forward “an extremely conservative estimate” that some 80,...
Efforts to clean famous monument have been slow, mostly ineffective
By Shashank Bengali
Los Angeles Times AGRA, INDIA» India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.”
One won...
By JUSTIN WORLAND Updated: May 30, 2018 2:56 PM ET time.com
For eight years, climate change activists lobbied President Obama to address global warming with everything from stronger regulations on greenhouse gases to rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The efforts often — if not always — succeeded....
EVAN HALPER LA TIMES
MAY 29, 2018 | 3:00 AM
At a time when acts of defiance against the Trump administration are routine in Sacramento, the rebuke that breezed through the California Assembly this month still came as a jolt. Even Trump loyalists in the chamber joined in.
The message t...
Forecasters predict a 35 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, and a 25 percent chance of a below-normal season for the upcoming hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to November 30.
“With the advances made in hardware and computing over the co...
The federal government’s push to open some of Colorado’s most pristine and delicate high country — near two sacred Navajo mountains and touching the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness — to oil and gas drilling has hit turbulence.
The Environmental Protection Agency has asked the Bureau of Land Management ...
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Poachers Are Killing Asian Elephants for Their Skin
BY JUSTINE E. HAUSHEER
MAY 21, 2018 Follow Justine
Working elephants socialize in a logging camp in northern Myanmar. Photo © Justine E. Hausheer / The Nature Conservancy
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Streamflow in the West
By Robert Harris, Senior Staff Attorney | May 8th, 2018
The healthiest flowing rivers in the West have one thing in common: a robust streamflow sufficient to meet all of the diverse uses of rivers. Flowing rivers sustain wetlands, provid...
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Xcel Energy has cut carbon emissions 35 percent since 2005 and expects to surpass 50 percent by 2022, largely by retiring aging coal plants and replacing them with renewable sources.
The Minneapolis-based owner of Colorado’s largest utility appea...
This September, leaders from around the world are heading to California for the Global Climate Action Summit to talk about climate change. Just days before, thousands will take action around the country demanding their elected officials make commitments at the summit that will protect our communitie...
One of the most outrageous and upsetting stories reported on May 16th is that the Trump Administration is preparing to remove migrant children from their parents and also acting against children under 18 years arriving alone into this country and are preparing to warehouse them on military bases. Th...
Nation May 21, 2018 7:01 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens.
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WASHINGTON » When you weigh all life on Earth, billions of humans don’t amount to much compared to trees, earthworms or even viruses. But we really know how to throw what little weight we have around, according to a first-of-its-kind global census of the footprint of life on the planet.
Humans only...
By Chris Mooney
The Washington Post

A grounded ship sits on the dry bed of the Aral Sea, which is about 62 miles from Aralsk, Kazakhstan. The Aral, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater sea, once covered an area the size of Ireland. But then it became part of the Soviet Union. The Communists div...
