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Shared from the 6/27/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Christopher Martin 
Bloomberg News For the clearest sign yet that renewable energy has gone mainstream, consider this: Clean energy resources supplied more of America’s electricity than coal for the first time ever in April. Hydropower da...
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Posted by on in Animals
WAYZATA — Soccer balls are saving endangered rhinos in South Africa. Many poachers have traded in their weapons for soccer shoes and uniforms, thanks to a soccer league with ties to the Lake Minnetonka area. Orono native Matt Bracken, who started the anti-poaching Wild and Free Foundation five yea...
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Posted by on in Animals
WAYZATA — Soccer balls are saving endangered rhinos in South Africa. Many poachers have traded in their weapons for soccer shoes and uniforms, thanks to a soccer league with ties to the Lake Minnetonka area. Orono native Matt Bracken, who started the anti-poaching Wild and Free Foundation five yea...
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Posted by on in Human Health
Shared from the 6/26/2019 The Denver Post eEdition   By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT.» Climate change in the western United States means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect ten...
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Posted by on in Food
By Kirsten Grieshaber
The Associated Press Franziska Lienert, a spokeswoman for the company that runs the “To Good To Go” app, uses a tablet to find a restaurant participating with the food-sharing community. ABERLIN» fter a long day at work, Annekathrin Fiesinger is too tired to consider making ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
 » A United Nations expert on poverty says hundreds of millions of people around the world face hunger, displacement, disease and death because of climate change. In a report released Tuesday, the U.N.’s independent expert on extreme poverty and human rights said current measures to cope ...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
  Shared from the 6/20/2019 The Denver Post eEdition ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press Associated Press file WASHINGTON» Despite scientists’ increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration ordered a sweeping about-face Wednesday on Obama-era efforts t...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  Shared from the 6/12/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON» The world’s oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, a new study says. Ever...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Shared from the 6/12/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Jason Samenow
The Associated Press Simultaneous heat waves scorched land areas all over the Northern Hemisphere last summer, killing hundreds and hospitalizing thousands while intensifying destructive and deadly wildfires. A study published th...
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Posted by on in General Environment
Shared from the 6/12/2019 The Denver Post eEdition   By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Environmental Protection Agency heads under three previous Republican presidents joined their Democratic counterparts Tuesday in telling lawmakers they were concerned by the Trump admini...
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Posted by on in Human Health
A two-hour “dose” of nature a week significantly boosts health and wellbeing, research suggests, even if you simply sit and enjoy the peace. The physical and mental health benefits of time spent in parks, woods or the beach are well known, but the new research is the first major study into how long...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  by Lucía Rodríguez on February 19, 2017 Primates are facing extinction. 63% of the world’s primate species are currently threatened with extinction based on a study published in Science Advances, led by Alejandro Estrada and Paul Garber and co-authoring, one of the founders of the Lemur Co...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  Shared from the 6/6/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Senior U.S. officials warned Wednesday that climate change is an increasing threat to national security, a message at odds with a broader Trump administration effort to downplay the t...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
By Margaret Cooney, Miriam Goldstein, and Emma Shapiro Posted on June 3, 2019, 12:01 am, Center for American Progress  Currently, in the United States, two major MPA policy approaches have found success and been proven to provide benefits to fishermen and other local stakeholder communities. O...
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Posted by on in General Environment
Sustaining Planet Earth’s Life Is in Our Hands, by John H. Fitch, Ph. D., Affiliate Full Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources and Morgan Libraries, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 4, 2019. The newly released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiver...
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Posted by on in Wind
  Shared from the 6/4/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Mario Sanelli The Denver Post Glenwood Springs on Colorado’s Western Slope last week became the seventh U.S. city — and the second in the state — to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy. Every home, business and street light ...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
  Shared from the 6/4/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Darryl Fears The Washington Post On a cold, miserable morning in May, Stan Gehrt trod across an open field as wind and rain blew in his face. He was leading a team of wildlife biologists on a mission to find an animal with a gift fo...
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Posted by on in Human Health
  Shared from the 6/4/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher and Michael Casey The Associated Press WASHINGTON» The Food and Drug Administration found substantial levels of a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds in some grocery store mea...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
About 80 countries want to expand their pledges to address climate change, advancing their action under the Paris climate accord, according to the United Nations. "We are not talking about a small incremental approach," said Luis Alfonso de Alba, a Mexican diplomat and the UN secretary-general's env...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  Scientists are sounding the alarm over the potential for catastrophic changes to our environment. By Denise Chow In the latest bit of bad news for a planet beset by climate change, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has climbed to a level last seen more than 3 millio...
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