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Please check this site out https://feu-us.org/cciq/ This short, sweet and informative climate change IQ quiz was developed by The Universal Ecological Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting climate action, its easy, fun, informative and as we need widespread involvement of all persons, ...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
By Alice Mannette
The Hutchinson News WINDOM, KAN.» With a nudge toward the past, Kansas farms are using bees once again to increase crop health. During the early 1900s, bees were prevalent in the state. Jorge Garibay, a beekeeping consultant from St. John, and others want to increase their number...
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The Associated Press  By Matthew Brown The Associated Press PARADISE, CALIF.» First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton’s house and killed 85 people in her community. Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from 1...
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The evidence mounted all year. All-time temperature records were broken in France, Germany and elsewhere; the Greenland ice sheet experienced exceptional melting; and, as 2019 came to a close, broiling temperatures contributed to devastating wildfires that continue in Australia. Now European scient...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
  Shared from the 1/3/2020 The Denver Post eEdition, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Brown and Ed White The Associated Press WASHINGTON» The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 year...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Shared from the 12/21/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Kendra Pierre-Louis © The New York Times Co. ORLEANS, MASS.»The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, among the rarest and most endangered of the seven species of sea turtles, was found motionless shortly after high tide on Cape Cod’s Skaket Beac...
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Shared from the 1/8/2020 The Denver Post eEdition  By Judith Kohler The Denver Post A national oil and gas trade group is kicking off a campaign to tell the industry’s story in face of concerns about climate change and proposed fracking bans, and the CEO says Colorado is part of his ...
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U.S. Emissions Dropped in 2019:  By Nicholas Kusnetz JAN 7, 2020 Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States dropped last year after a sharp increase in 2018, new data released Tuesday show. The drop resumed a long-term downward trend driven chiefly by a shift away from coal power generati...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
By Sierra Club Environmental Law Program. Gaslight Edition Trump Watch re Environmental Rollbacks and Actions  White house officials suppress State Dept testimony that human caused climate change will be "possibly catastrophic"  EPA  Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that "most of t...
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By Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for InsideClimate News.  The findings of the study, published Tuesday, support those from other recent studies that found the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels—including coal—to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees soaring g...
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The year 2019 was the hottest on record for Australia with the temperature reaching 1.52C above the long-term average, data from the Bureau of Meteorology confirms. The year that delivered crippling drought, heatwaves, temperature records and devastating bushfires was 0.19C hotter than 2013, the pr...
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  Shared from the 12/29/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue © The New York Times Co. IWAKI, JAPAN»The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped through northern Japan in March 2011 took so much from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal c...
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Posted by on in General Environment
  Shared from the 12/29/2019 The Denver Post eEdition The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Nuclear industry hopes of one day bringing small, factory-built nuclear power plants to communities and industrial sites have cleared a first regulatory hurdle with the Trump administration, over objec...
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Posted by on in General Environment
  Shared from the 12/29/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Mari YamaguchiThe Associated Press TOKYO» Japan on Friday revised a roadmap for the cleanup of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools ...
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BY HANNAH KEEGAN FOR PEOPLE Greta Thunberg has got our attention. Now, her generation is poised to make a real difference. Greta Thunberg was 15 when she turned up at the Swedish parliament in 2018 on a one-teenager protest against climate change. In the year since, her acc...
Greta Thunberg during her school stirke for the climate our´tside the Parliament building in Stockholm Sweden
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Posted by on in Ecotourism
by Angela Logomasini  | December 21, 2019 If you are looking to find some eco-friendly holiday gifts and decorations this year, be careful what advice you follow. Intentional or not, many suggestions about “eco-friendly” products are faulty because they are driven more by political preferences...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
The Trump administration is systematically remaking U.S. policies toward public lands, moving aggressively to open protected areas for development – from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, to the red rock country of Utah, to the nation’s largest national forest in Alaska. BY JIM ROBBINS ...
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Shared from the 12/14/2019 The Denver Post eEdition “WAR ON PLASTICS” A public hearing on the proposal is slated for Dec. 16 By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post Denver’s proposed fee for single-use bags is just the beginning of what City Council President Jolon Clark envisions as a “war on pla...
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Shared from the 12/15/2019 The Denver Post eEdition RENEWABLE ENERGY LOSING OUT By Christina Larson
The Associated Press WASHINGTON»As world leaders gathered in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight fell on China — the top emitter of greenhouse gases. China burn...
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Shared from the 12/12/2019 The Denver Post eEdition   Time magazine said teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is being honored for work that transcends backgrounds and borders. Time, via The Associated Press MADRID » Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and...
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