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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
https://www.popesprayer.va/ "Hello. Today, I’d like to speak to you about something that’s very important and that weighs on my heart: to speak about the oceans. Oceans contain the bulk of our planet’s water supply, and also most of the immense variety of living creatures, many of which are th...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
By the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer) https://www.popesprayer.va/ “We need to grow in the conviction that a decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development.”  Pope Francis explains to us that it is i...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Michael Levenson
© The New York Times Co. Environmentalists are expressing alarm over an increasing number of dead dolphins that have washed ashore on Mauritius after a Japanese ship ran aground last month, spilling oil into the famed blue lago...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
Shared from the 8/7/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Bruce Finley
The Denver Post 100% of Colorado in drought Hot and dry conditions are hammering Colorado, intensifying a 20-year shift toward aridity. On Thursday, federal officials designated 100% of the state abnormally dry or in drought for the...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Shared from the 8/28/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Ean Thomas Tafoya
Guest Commentary We learned recently that the Suncor Energy refinery had another “upset” event in which one of its boilers failed, releasing untold quantities of unknown toxic chemicals into the air. We learned this after...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Stanley Reed
© The New York Times Co. This may turn out to be the year that oil giants, especially in Europe, started looking more like electric companies. Late last month, Royal Dutch Shell won a deal to build a vast wind farm off the coa...
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Shared from the 8/30/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Impact of hotter times By Bruce Finley The Denver Post The sun beat down, baking Colorado’s bone-dry, cracking San Luis Valley, where farmers for eight years have been trying to save their depleted underground water but are falling behin...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
By Judith Kohler 
The Denver Post Xcel Energy-Colorado, the state’s largest electric utility, has proposed offering lower rates to new and expanding businesses for up to 10 years. The proposal was submitted Monday to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy said. The incentive could ...
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Posted by on in Mining
Shared from the 8/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Theresa Davis
The Albuquerque Journal SHIPROCK, N.M  On Aug. 5, 2015, Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the...
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Posted by on in Food
Shared from the 8/23/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   By Bella Huang and Amy Qin
© The New York Times Co. Chinese regulators are calling out live-streamers who binge-eat for promoting excessive consumption. A school said it would bar students from applying for scholarships if their daily left...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition REDUCED MONITORING By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown and Michael Casey The Associated Press Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for ...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Julian Lee Bloomberg Opinion   Don’t dismiss the leak of oil from the MV Wakashio that ran aground last month on a reef off the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius so quickly. The volume lost may seem tiny, but its location, mixed w...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
Shared from the 8/25/2020 The Denver Post eEdition Officials recommend constructing “safe rooms” for protection against particulates By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post Beyond wildfire smoke, the air quality in Denver has deteriorated as residents also are barraged with infusions of multiple ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Shared from the 8/21/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 4 feet of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had be...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
hared from the 8/23/2020 The Denver Post eEditio By Samy Magdy
The Associated Press   A Second Village farmer shows a shriveled olive. Egypt’s farmers face severely stretched water resources because of years of mismanagement and increasing population. SECOND VILLAGE, EGYPT»In the winter o...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
Shared from the 8/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post Environmental organizations are suing to scrap a management plan that would allow oil and gas drilling across public lands in southwestern Colorado. Six environmental groups filed the lawsuit in U.S. District ...
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Posted by on in Ecotourism
Shared from the 8/16/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Oliver Whang © The New York Times Co. On a bright morning early this spring, David Ledford sat in his silver pickup at the end of a three-lane bridge spanning a deep gorge in southeast Kentucky. The bridge, which forks off U.S. 119, was construc...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Shared from the 8/18/2020 The Denver Post eEdition OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN ALASKA Trump administration finalizes plan to open refuge to drilling By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain
© The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON»The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up part ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
How Methane Gas Causes Climate Change and What To Do About It by Katrina Cosolo | Apr 16, 2018 | Climate Change Causes, Climate Change Impact, Weather According to NASA, climate change is extensively caused by greenhouse gases which block the heat in the Ear...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Shared from the 8/14/2020 The Denver Post eEdition ROLLBACK OF OBAMA RULE  By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON»The Trump administration formally weakened a major climate change regulation Thursday — effectively freeing oil and gas companies from the need to detect and repai...
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