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Rare Miami forest poised to be bulldozed for Walmart development
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7 years ago
A rare forest in Florida that is home to more than 20 endangered species of animals and plants is poised to be transformed into a Walmart-anchored shopping center after activists recently lost a...
Eskilstuna: how a Swedish town became the world capital of recycling
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7 years ago
‘P eople talk about Eskilstuna as the place where nothing new is invented,” says the shopping mall manager Anna Bergström. An hour’s train ride from Stockholm, the “Sheffield of Sweden”...
Power to the people: how Spanish cities took control of energy
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7 years ago
A fter a close fight, Barcelona’s radical mayor, Ada Colau, is expected to take office for a second term on Saturday, vindicating her often-criticised policies, which have included making...
Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation, documents show
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7 years ago
The documents shine a light on the ways corporations have used their money to buy influence, amass prestige and shape public policy through grants to academic programmes and advocacy...
Photographer And His Wife Plant 2 Million Trees In 20 Years To Restore A Destroyed Forest And Even The Animals Have Returned
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7 years ago
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization , 129 million hectares of forest, an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa, have been lost from the Earth...
Russia launches new nuclear-powered icebreaker in bid to open up Arctic
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7 years ago
Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Saturday, part of an ambitious programme to renew and expand its fleet of the vessels in order to improve its ability to tap the Arctic’s...
This federal agency is quietly, profoundly shaping climate policy
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7 years ago
FERC sits at the heart of the clean energy transition, overseeing two key areas of frequent conflict. The first is bulk electricity — interstate transmission lines and regional...
E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math
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Environment/Climate
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7 years ago
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule...
Bill Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate Change
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7 years ago
During his appearance on HBO's "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver" on Sunday (May 12), Nye used frank language to talk to millennials about the impacts of global warming on Earth. (Nye's...
The World Blows Over $5 Trillion a Year on Oil and Gas Subsidies: Report
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7 years ago
The staggering number shows why failure to account for climate change, air pollution, and other societal ills when it comes to fossil fuel extraction is often described as the biggest...
ENVIRONMENT 1 million species under threat of extinction because of humans, biodiversity report finds
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7 years ago
By Denise Chow A sweeping report assessing the state of the natural world found that humans are having an “unprecedented” and devastating effect on global biodiversity, with about 1 million...
New look at Antarctica's biggest ice shelf shows melting is occurring much faster than we thought
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7 years ago
By Denise Chow Antarctica’s biggest ice shelf may be more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. A new study of warm seawater seeping into a cavity below the Ross Ice...
Enough with the 'Actually, Electric Cars Pollute More' Bullshit Already
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7 years ago
I know, I know , dunking on the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a bit like smacking your four-year-old nephew’s would-be jumper out of the air before it even leaves his hands. But in...
Country diary: that Darth Vader soundalike is one ungrateful beaver
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7 years ago
We make a strange procession as we descend the steep trail in single file, like a scene painted centuries ago on a Chinese silk scroll. We wind between tall pines and rhododendrons, crossing...
For anyone worried about climate change, Jerry Taylor is an intriguing figure.
Via: bob-nelson
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7 years ago
For anyone worried about climate change , Jerry Taylor is an intriguing figure. He “spent years as a professional climate denier at the Cato Institute, arguing against climate science,...
EARTH DAY: Colorado a Step Closer to Levying Fines on ‘Gasholes’
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7 years ago
Your author tries not to create too much of a stir with his vibrant and eventful Chevy Cruze, but sometimes it’s hard. Still, there’s at least an attempt to keep the peace, ensuring owners...
EARTY DAY: Since the first Earth Day, the planet’s CO2 levels have gone off the rails
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7 years ago
Image: NASA Nearly 50 years ago, scientists measured Earth's levels of carbon dioxide — the planet's most important greenhouse gas — at around 325 parts per million, or ppm. Now, almost...
'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind
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7 years ago
“Even without major policy shift we will continue to see coal retire pretty rapidly,” said Mike O’Boyle, the co-author of the report for Energy Innovation, a renewables analysis firm ....
US judge halts hundreds of drilling projects in groundbreaking climate change ruling
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7 years ago
In the first significant check on the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda, a US judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into...
There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About
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7 years ago
Within 100 years, many of our cities will become uninhabitable, submerged under oceans or deadly hot. Food will be more difficult to grow. Storms will become more violent. The gentle planet we’ve...
A 'super blood wolf moon' and five eclipses are among 2019's major astronomy events
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8 years ago
There are a number of great events (eclipse) coming this year. (Click on seeded article for all of them)...But this one. Blood Wolf Moon is going to be really spectacular....I would advise if you...
Trump’s EPA says limits on mercury emissions from coal plants not necessary
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8 years ago
Under the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or MATS, enacted under former President Barack Obama, coal-burning power plants have been forced to install expensive equipment to cut output of mercury,...
How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction
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8 years ago
O n 5,000 hectares of unploughed prairie in north-eastern Montana, hundreds of wild bison roam once again. But this herd is not in a national park or a protected sanctuary – they are on tribal...
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