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Support is surging for teens’ climate change lawsuit
BY LAURA PARKER



Fiat Chrysler Recalls 900,000+ Cars in U.S. and Canada for Excessive Nitrogen Oxide Emissions



‘Absolutely Magical’: Southern California Sees Largest Painted Lady Migration Since 2005


EPA Proposes Use of 650,000 Pounds of Antibiotics Per Year on Citrus Fields


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SOMETHING'S FISHY

What is seafood fraud? Dangerous—and running rampant, report finds


Tests of fish bought across the United States reveal that consumers weren't getting what they paid for.


36 Beagles Could Die if Dow Pesticide Test Isn’t Stopped, Investigation Reveals


Invasive Species Have Led to a Third of Animal Extinctions Since 1500

a most saddest of occurences

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Woman Attacked by Jaguar at Arizona Zoo Says She Was ‘In the Wrong’

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SPECIES STORIES
New glass frog

The Manduriacu glass frog (Nymphargus manduriacu) lives in an Ecuadorian reserve called Río Manduriacu Reserve. It was just discovered as a new species but is threatened by mining. Like all glass frogs, it has semi-translucent skin and inhabits trees.
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Has Climate Gentrification Hit Miami? The City Plans to Find Out

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Icebergs Can Be Surprisingly Colorful


White people make pollution, others breathe it
In the United States, black and Hispanic people bear many more of the deadly effects of air pollution, while creating less pollution themselves. Non-Hispanic white people are exposed to around 17% less air-pollution exposure than they make. African Americans bear a ‘pollution burden’ of 56% excess exposure, and Hispanic Americans face 63%. “The thing that’s causing the disparity is the different amounts of consumption,” says environmental engineer Christopher Tessum. “White people spend more money.”

The Washington Post | 6 min read
Reference: PNAS paper

odd one

Whites are mainly to blame for air pollution, but blacks and Hispanics bear the burden, says a new study

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Thousands Flee as 19 Wildfires Burn in Southeast Australia
wow
relative natural phenomena huh
incredible,need no war,no nuke bombs

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Flooding Creates a 10-Mile-Long Lake in Death Valley

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ENVIRONMENT
Support is surging for teens’ climate change lawsuit
The U.S. Constitution protects the right to a safe climate, say 30,000 kids and eight members of Congress in support of the suit.
 

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It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

Correspondent Dan Charles explores a dream, a possible future in which we're bringing global warming to a halt. It's a world in which greenhouse emissions have ended. What does this world look like? And how did we get there?

And we'd like to ask you: What do you think needs to happen to end climate change by 2050?Share your ideas on this Twitter thread.




Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.



Investigation Finds Southern California Edison Power Lines Sparked Massive, Deadly Thomas Fire

Hundreds of Thousands of Students Prepare for Global #ClimateStrike: Here Are 5 Ways You Can Help


‘The Last Pig’ Doesn’t Offer Easy Answers on Animal Farming

interesting what different madia find important to report


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White Americans Produce More Air Pollution Than They Consume



HUGE FIND
Mysterious new orca species likely identified

For the first time, scientists have filmed and studied the elusive “type D” killer whales in the wild.
SEE THE SPECIES


LEMUR TROUBLE
How the sapphire trade is driving lemurs toward extinction


A rush for Madagascar’s gemstones is destroying remaining habitat for imperiled lemurs and other wildlife.




Do Octopuses Dream?
A video of an octopus changing color in its sleep suggests that cephalopods may have a form of REM sleep, and even dream.
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thank you youngsters

'Worse than Voldemort' — global students' strike targets climate change


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'Worse than Voldemort' — global students' strike targets climate change

'Worse than Voldemort' — global students' strike targets climate change
Tens of thousands of school students around the world walked out of classes on Friday in a global strike to protest against government inaction on climate change.

The good news


New study / Radical plan to artificially cool Earth's climate could be safe
Experts worry that injecting sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere could put some regions at risk



'Almost certain extinction' / 1,200 species under severe threat across world
Scientists map out threats faced by thousands of species of birds, mammals and amphibians
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8. The VA is using AI to operate better on vets.
Software that turns CT and MRI scans into 3D-printed models is helping doctors develop more precise methods of surgery.

9. A Venezuela restaurant opened its doors to people in need.
The owners of Hache Gourmet welcomed residents hampered by nationwide power outages to prepare meals in its kitchen.

10. Dallas welcomed a second baby gorilla born in less than a year.
Megan, a 13-year-old critically endangered western lowland gorilla, gave birth to the zoo's second newborn in 21 years.

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Have a great weekend! Watch your inbox for more good news every Saturday. And send us your uplifting stories to amach6@bloomberg.net.
 

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change

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How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Thousands of students in Europe and elsewhere have been skipping school on Fridays to demand their governments take stronger action against climate change. Some teachers and politicians are pushing back, but the students are getting support from their elders as well.

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Students lead the charge

Students around the world skipped school to participate in a massive climate strike calling on politicians to take action on carbon emissions.

  • "Climate action now!" students chanted in Hong Kong.
  • In Australia, demonstrators shouted, "Save the planet. It's not too late!"
  • "Climate change is an emergency and the government needs to act upon it as soon as they can," says a student in India.
  • Young people in Belgium marched on the street, demanding a "climate revolution."
  • In Sweden, 16-year-old climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg told a crowd "We are standing in front of an existential crisis, the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced."
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar, speaking in Washington, D.C., said, "We must not let the current administrations prioritize corporate interests over the health of all of our communities."
  • In New York, police physically moved students who were sitting in the streets in protest.



EPA Proposes Use of 650,000 Pounds of Antibiotics Per Year on Citrus Fields
 

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NDIA'S INNOVATORS BET THE FARM TO ELIMINATE $30 BILLION AGRI-WASTE DANGER

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BY David Ropeik

Opinion | For more than 50 years, the cognitive sciences have amassed a mountainous body of insight into why we think and choose and act as we do. And what they have found is that facts alone are literally meaningless. To win over climate change skeptics, we must speak to their hearts, not just their heads. Read on »


Why you're recycling wrong



Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land

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Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land



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Exclusive / US official reveals Atlantic drilling plan while hailing Trump’s ability to distract public
Revealed: Interior department official says he is ‘thrilled’ by Trump’s ‘knack for keeping the attention of the media and public focused somewhere else’



Cities

What is the mysterious 'global Hum' – and is it simply noise pollution?



Up to 4% of people are said to hear a strange low-pitched noise known as the Hum, but no source has ever been found. City life is one possible cause





Plastic free

#Plasticfree: how to handle the scary plastic threat on our own backs


Decades of washing synthetic clothes has contributed to vast, irreversible pollution, with microfibers found in our drinking water, beer and table salt. So what can we do?



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'There is no planet B': best placards from the youth climate strike
 

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Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate?
For students at this top evangelical college, loving God means protecting creation. That includes dealing with the


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Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate?


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They Know Seas Are Rising, but They’re Not Abandoning Their Beloved Cape Cod
Lifelong residents are building higher with each flood. But while they contend with climate change, some say they aren’t sure what to believe about the cause.

BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS


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They Know Seas Are Rising, but They’re Not Abandoning Their Beloved Cape Cod


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CLIMATE DESK
Radical plan to

artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds
By Emily Holden on Mar 14, 2


School Strike for Climate: What Today's Kids Face If World Leaders Delay Action
When today's leaders were Greta’s age, scientists were already issuing strong warnings about climate change.

BY PAUL HORN


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School Strike for Climate: What Today's Kids Face If World Leaders Delay Action


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CLIMATE DESK
Radical plan to artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds
By Emily Holden on Mar 14, 2

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Does the United States Need a Civilian Nuclear Industry? by Patrick Roberts and Ariel Ahram

Instead of a greater financial cushion, what the nuclear industry needs is more transparent exposure to market signals. Read it here.


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Hungry Otters Are Creating a Unique Archaeological Recor

SMARTNEWS Keeping you current
The Carcasses That Mountain Lions Leave Behind Power Entire Insect Ecosystems
A new study shows 215 species of beetles rely on the big cats’ leftovers

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Aquaculture wars: The perils and promise of Big Fish

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This stunning 360-degree image is the last panorama captured by NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars. The view is of Perseverance Valley in Endeavour crater, which would become Oppy’s final resting place. The rover ran out of juice last June, following an epic 15-year mission exploring the red planet.

Visible are the tracks of the rover that “begin their descent from over the horizon and weave their way down to geologic features that our scientists wanted to examine up close”, says Opportunity project manager John Callas. “And to the far right and left are the bottom of Perseverance Valley and the floor of Endeavour crater, pristine and unexplored, waiting for visits from future explorers.”

Kiwi kids were doing the global thing right at the time of the terrible shooting


A February climate protest by students in London. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Getty)
Scientists support school strike for climate
Tens of thousands of scientists have released statements expressing support for the ongoing climate strikes by schoolchildren. Today is set to be the biggest moment yet for the grassroots movement inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, in which young people walk out of schools to demand that adults do more to combat climate change. The young protesters “have every right to be angry about the future that we shall bequeath to them, if proportionate and urgent action is not taken”, said the statement from UK academics.

Nature | 5 min rea

Thousands of scientists are backing the kids striking for climate change
Students around the world are walking out of school to urge governments to do more about global warming.


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President Trump and his team are planning on releasing an insurance plan soon that could change the way people buy property. In an era of increasingly extreme weather, that’s a forward-thinking move.

The administration is looking to make some changes to the National Flood Insurance Program — a federal program that is billions of dollars in debt. Instead of assessing whether a given home is at risk of flooding based on outdated estimates, the new system will “calculate the real flood threat for each home and set costs based on that data,” Bloomberg reports.

The new policy could negatively affect folks in communities that are especially susceptible to flooding, a side effect housing officials say they are watching closely, according to Bloomberg. The changes to the program could raise premiums for at-risk homes.

On the upside, the new system will give Americans — millions of whom are covered by the program — a better understanding of just how at-risk their properties are. You don’t need to look much further than Miami to see how foolish it is to buy property on the coast — sea levels are rising there at breathtaking speed. The Trump administration’s new method of assessment will provide some much-needed incentives against people literally ending up underwater on their properties.

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Is the Green New Deal “tantamount to genocide?” Utah Representative Rob Bishop apparently said so. Republicans have had some extreme reactions to the progressive proposal, but this takes the cake. Here’s what Bishop said when Axios’ Amy Harder pressed him on whether he really thinks the Green New Deal poses a risk to his well-being: Harder: You think the Green New Deal is going to kill you? Bishop: If you actually implement everything they want to. Killing would be positive if you implement everything the Green New Deal actually wants to.
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Hungry Otters Are Creating a Unique Archaeological Record


How 12 Communities Are Fighting Climate Change and What’s Standing in Their Way


They’re using renewable energy, urban planning, their voices and the law to try to rein in climate change that’s already in their front yards.
BY STAFF, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS




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How 12 Communities Are Fighting Climate Change and What’s Standing in Their Way
 

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How to actually recycle



Well-intentioned “aspirational recycling” is actually making it harder to recover materials.



Anyone can be a Nobel Prize nominee. Here’s why a 16-year-old climate activist deserves to win.

She's been a fearless advocate for young people and the planet.

good for them,cant thank them enough
its thereworld,there future


Kids Around the World Cut Class for Climate Justice

March 16, 2019

Students in over 100 countries skipped school and took to the streets to demand serious climate policy from world leaders





How to actually recycle



Well-intentioned “aspirational recycling” is actually making it harder to recover materials.


78,000+ Pounds of Ground Turkey Recalled Over Possible Salmonella Contamination



Anyone can be a Nobel Prize nominee. Here’s why a 16-year-old climate activist deserves to win.



She's been a fearless advocate for young people and the planet.


good for them,cant thank them enough
its thereworld,there future


Kids Around the World Cut Class for Climate Justice

March 16, 2019

Students in over 100 countries skipped school and took to the streets to demand serious climate policy from world leaders


A conservative solution to climate change - part 2

PART 1 IS HERE:



Brazil Moves to Open Indigenous Lands to Mining

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apart from THE GAURDIAN / UK
DW/ GERMANY has top notch info, me thinks

personally can read rhere articles all day
fills one with appreciation
we dont want/need no wars
the many millions who suffer grrrrrr

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Blame Wood-Burning Stoves for Winter Air Pollution and Health Threats

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By Mat Hope (11 min. read)

Fossil fuel companies have a long history of adopting public relations strategies straight from the tobacco industry's playbook. But a new analysis shows the two industries’ relationship goes much deeper — right down to funding the same organisations to do their dirty work.

MIT Associate Professor David Hsu analyzed organisations in DeSmog’s disinformation database and the Guardian’s tobacco database and found 35 thinktanks based in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand that promote both the tobacco and fossil fuel industries’ interests. Read more.
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As Cleanup Dispute Looms, Peabody-Linked Group Pushes Navajo Nation to Buy West's Largest Coal Plant

What Green New Deal Advocates Can Learn From the 2009 Economic Stimulus Act



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By Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School (6 min. read)

Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change by shifting the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels. Many progressives support this idea, while skeptics argue that a decade is not long enough to remake our nation’s energy system.

The closest analog to this effort occurred in 2009, when President Obama and Congress worked together to combat a severe economic recession by passing a massive economic stimulus plan. Among its many provisions, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided US$90 billion to promote clean energy. Read more


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By Sharon Kelly (12 min. read)

In September 2018, two prospective buyers announced they were dropping out of negotiations to purchase the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the American West’s largest coal-fired power plant.

Avenue Capital Group and Middle River Power had sought to keep the aging coal plant in business, but “said they could not get anyone to commit to buying power from the plant, delaying the start of an environmental review,” the Associated Press reported. The plant, located in northern Arizona near the Utah border, is currently scheduled to shut down in December, after its current owners concluded in 2017 that its power was too costly to be competitive. Read more.



'It's About Economics': Two Coal Plants to Close Despite Trump's Tweet

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By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch (4 min. read)

Trump is losing his rallying cry to save coal. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) voted on Thursday to retire two coal-fired power plants in the next few years despite a plea from the president to keep one of the plants open.

Earlier this week, the president posted an oddly specific tweet that urged the government-owned utility to save the 49-year-old Paradise 3 plant in Kentucky. It so happens that the facility burns coal supplied by Murray Energy Corporation, whose CEO is Robert Murray, is a major Trump donor. Read more.
 

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The CO2 Coalition is a 501(c)(3) group formed from the now-defunct climate science-denying George C. Marshall Institute. Its stated purpose is promoting “the important contribution made by carbon dioxide and fossil fuels to our lives and the economy.” It was co-founded by Will Happer (who is poised to lead a White House probe of the national security risks of climate change) and former Exxon manager Roger Cohen. The coalition has received funding from the Koch family foundations and Mercer Family Foundation (the Mercers are conservative mega-donors).

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40,000 UC Workers Are About to Strike Over Race, Class, and Gender
UPTE-CWA and AFSCME workers are holding a one-day strike March 20 not just over wages and benefits, but over a larger social struggle for dignity in their work


Youth Climate Strike Brings Thousands to Streets of London
TRNN’s Jaisal Noor speaks to some of the 5,000 youth that marched in London, England






Trader Joe’s Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics Nationwide Following Customer Petition



Norway Set to Divest $1 Trillion Wealth Fund From Oil and Gas Exploration Companies

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Here's what a 'very likely' sequel to California's 1862 megastorm would look like

The ARkStorm project reminds residents that preparedness is key.



Blame Wood-Burning Stoves for Winter Air Pollution and Health Threats


‘Absolutely Magical’: Southern California Sees Largest Painted Lady Migration Since 2005



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The Riddle of the Roaming Plastics
It is one of the modern world’s biggest mysteries—99 percent of the plastics that enter the ocean are missing.

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MELTDOWN

The Arctic's ‘Carbon Bomb’ Could Screw the Climate Even More
BY KATE YODER

Arctic permafrost, a “sleeping giant” of greenhouse gases, is melting faster than expected and could release 1.5 trillion tons of carbon dioxide.

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In the ocean, even tiny pieces of plastic can host microbial life. Scientists hope to use observations on how microbial communities develop to estimate how long a microplastic fragment has been floating in the ocean. Photo by Citizen of the Planet/Alamy Stock Photo
Journey into the Plastisphere
Plastic marine debris is one of the world’s newest ecosystems, and scientists have just begun to understand how microbes are settling into their new island homes
Hitching a Ride on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Fish may be rafting to Hawaii on plastic debris.


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A Coal Mine Is Devouring a 12,000-Year-Old Forest
For decades a German utility has been clearing an ancient forest to unearth more coal. With little left to preserve, environmentalists are fighting back.


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For decades, a German utility has been ripping out an ancient forest to unearth more coal. With little left to preserve, environmentalists are nevertheless fighting back.

U.S. clean coal program fails to deliver on promised smog cuts

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Clean coal’s dirty secret: More pollution, not less


The Arctic’s ticking ‘carbon bomb’ could blow up the Paris Agreement

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Bye-bye, sloppy joes. Hello, tofu! Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasioannounced that starting next school year, the Big Apple’s public school lunchrooms will not serve meat on Mondays.

“Cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers’ health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement (which was released, naturally, on a Monday.) “We’re expanding Meatless Mondays to all public schools to keep our lunch and planet green for generations to come.”

Indeed, there’s no shortage of evidence that intensive meat production plays a significant role in climate change — animal agriculture accounts for more than14 percent of global greenhouse emissions. Although the NYC public school district is not the first to adopt the policy, it is the largest, with more than 1,800 schools and 1.1 million students.

The announcement follows a yearlong pilot program to determine if NYC students (and their parents) would be down for lunches devoid of all animal products except eggs and cheese. The result: the program was both cost-effective and popular with students. That’s right, they have no beef with it!

So, so long, Monday mystery meat! You will not be missed.

Paola Rosa-Aquino

not suggesting its related but

A huge cyclone tore through parts of eastern Africa last week.Today, Mozambique’s president said Cyclone Idai may have claimed 1,000 lives. Beira, the country’s fourth biggest city, is 90 percent destroyed, Earther reports.

Cyclone Idai: Mozambique president says 1,000 may have died

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Hundreds feared dead after Cyclone Idai

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Historic floods cause widespread damage in Nebraska, Iowa
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ou might not know it from watching the news, but large swaths of the Midwest are underwater. Last week, a so-called “bomb cyclone” caused historic flooding in the region. At last count, two people had died, and many more were forced to abandon their homes in search of higher ground. Because of climate change, the Midwest faces an increased risk of flooding.

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Historic floods causing widespread damage in Nebraska, Iowa



‘Absolutely Magical’: Southern California Sees Largest Painted Lady Migration Since 2005




Greenpeace Calls BS After Trump Cites 'Paid Lobbyist' Masquerading as Co-Founder to Peddle Climate Denial


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WILDLIFE WATCH
Sapphire mining is driving lemurs toward extinction
A rush for Madagascar’s gemstones is destroying remaining habitat for imperiled lemurs and other wildlife.
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The Arctic’s ticking ‘carbon bomb’ could blow up the Paris Agreement

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U.S. taxpayers have spent billions of dollars subsidizing chemically treated, refined coal. A new analysis of EPA data shows that it often pumps out more smog, not less. Here's the truth about clean coal: It's pretty dirty.

The increasing amount of plastic clogging the planet's oceans is a slow-moving environmental disaster, one which we know very little about. Why? Because 99 percent of that plastic is "basically missing."

A famous beach town is the wildfire capital of America. Since 1970, five fires have inflicted more than $1 billion in property damage there. Yet they keep rebuilding. For your consideration: The case for letting Malibu burn.

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40,000 UC Workers Are About to Strike Over Race, Class, and Gender
UPTE-CWA and AFSCME workers are holding a one-day strike March 20 not just over wages and benefits, but over a larger social struggle for dignity in their work


Radical plan to artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds
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Radical plan to artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds


‘Monumental step backwards’: The $1 billion gas pipeline project dividing New York

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‘Monumental step backwards’: The $1 billion gas pipeline project dividing New York



Youth Climate Strike Brings Thousands to Streets of London

TRNN’s Jaisal Noor speaks to some of the 5,000 youth that marched in London, England


Trader Joe’s Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics Nationwide Following Customer Petition


Norway Set to Divest $1 Trillion Wealth Fund From Oil and Gas Exploration Companies

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Here's what a 'very likely' sequel to California's 1862 megastorm would look like

The ARkStorm project reminds residents that preparedness is key.


Blame Wood-Burning Stoves for Winter Air Pollution and Health Threats
already jappened

Mozambique braces for ‘extremely dangerous’ Cyclone Idai
By Eric Holthaus on Mar 14, 2019


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Piling Up: How China’s Ban on Importing Waste Has Stalled Global Recycling
China’s decision to no longer be the dumping ground for the world’s recycled waste has left municipalities and waste companies from Australia to the U.S. scrambling for alternatives. But experts say it offers an opportunity to develop better solutions for a growing throwaway culture.

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Piling Up: How China’s Ban on Importing Waste Has Stalled Global Recycling

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some wqonderful info


Restoring the Colorado: Bringing New Life to a Stressed River
The Colorado River has been dammed, diverted, and slowed by reservoirs, strangling the life out of a once-thriving ecosystem. But in the U.S. and Mexico, efforts are underway to revive sections of the river and restore vital riparian habitat for native plants, fish, and wildlife. Last in a series.

BY JIM ROBBINS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED WOOD • FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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disasters WW galore
not suggesting all GW/CC related, but ...not discounting either

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    Southern Africa Faces ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ After Cyclone
    With official death tolls in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi hitting 200, 98 and 56 respectively, the dire consequences of Cyclone Idai are still settling in. The U.N. World Food Program suggests up to 1.7 million people were affected in Mozambique, with another 920,000 in neighboring Malawi, while local dams are reportedly at full capacity. The emergency “is getting bigger by the hour,” according to one U.N. official.

    Why was this storm so destructive? Experts say climate change means the atmosphere holds more moisture to power storms, while Idai’s “looping, unpredictable” track made flooding a particularly grave danger.

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Southern Africa Faces 'Humanitarian Crisis' After Cyclone - March 20, 2019

so many dislike/disagree with the critter, but t still remans, dictating to ya'all




A photovoltaic system on a single-family house in Germany. ENERIX

In Germany, Consumers Embrace a Shift to Home Batteries
A growing number of homeowners in Germany are installing batteries to store solar power. As prices for energy storage systems drop, they are adopting a green vision: a solar panel on every roof, an EV in every garage, and a battery in every basement.

BY PAUL HOCKENOS • MARCH 18, 2019

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Trump’s monument review was a big old sham

House Democrats investigate the Trump administration’s “inadequate” review and rollback of protected sites in Utah.
 

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Trump’s monument review was a big old sham

much better more positive than us adults

These kids are striking for their school to cut its carbon footprint

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Controversial deep-sea mining put to the test
Next month, researchers will look on as a mining firm vacuums up metals such as copper and iron that lie in rock deposits — or nodules — on the sea floor in the remote Pacific Ocean. It will be the first large-scale test of a deep-sea mining method that scientists have long warned could release damaging plumes of sediment into some of the clearest waters. Oceanographers worry that the test won’t be enough to reveal what intensive mining will do to the vibrant life on the sea floor. But an international regulatory body is keen to get firm rules in place for deep-sea mining by next year.

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Read more: Never-before-seen deep-sea life prompts new worries over seabed mining


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Scientists track damage from controversial deep-sea mining method

Teens skipped school to protest climate change and capitalism.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are reportedly blocking international efforts to regulate climate-manipulating tech. (The Guardian)

what else but selfish ignorance prompts that behaviour huh

US and Saudi Arabia blocking regulation of geoengineering, sources say

The United States and Saudi Arabia have hamstrung global efforts to scrutinise climate geoengineering in order to benefit their fossil fuel industries, according to multiple sources at the United Nations environment assembly, taking place this week in Nairobi.

The world’s two biggest oil producers reportedly led opposition against plans to examine the risks of climate-manipulating technology such as sucking carbon out of the air, reflective mirrors in space, seeding the oceans and injecting particulates into the atmosphere.

Deeper analysis of the risks had been proposed by Switzerland and 12 other countries as a first step towards stronger oversight of potentially world-altering experiments that would have implications for food supply, biodiversity, global inequality and security. Some have been tried, but as yet none deployed at a scale that would affect the climate.

US and Saudi Arabia blocking regulation of geoengineering, sources say

proud of them
who wouldent/couldent be
imsagining the few ignorants who would

The Picture Show
Youth climate change demonstrations across the globe.

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Students from London to New Delhi skipped school on Friday to take part in demonstrations calling for action on climate change. The demonstrations also included protesters in almost every state across the U.S., taking part in an event organizers called the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.

cry for you Aussie, never used to be so,like NZ is toxic

Toxic mine water contaminating river system in far north Queensland, Government says
Residents should beware as contaminated water from a mothballed mine in Queensland's far north is leaking into neighbouring waterways after recent heavy rainfall, the State Government says.




be CAREFUL BE WARY where we tread fellow humans



An excavator clears trees for the border wall at La Parida Banco, part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. COURTESY OF KRISTA SCHLYER



Ethiopian farmers examine the results of a trial of wheat varieties. BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL

How Crowdsourcing Seeds Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
In Ethiopia and other developing nations, scientists are working with small-scale farmers on trials to see which seed varieties perform best in changing conditions. These initiatives are enabling farmers to make smarter crop choices in the face of rising temperatures, drought, and more extreme weather.

BY VIRGINIA GEWIN • FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How Crowdsourcing Seeds Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change


likely cares not for either human or animal
just wealth

As Work Begins on Trump’s Border Wall, a Key Wildlife Refuge Is at Risk
Construction is underway on a stretch of President Trump’s border wall cutting through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. Biologists warn the steel wall will disrupt carefully preserved habitat critical for the survival of ocelot, jaguarundi, and other threatened species.

BY APRIL REESE • FEBRUARY 28, 2019
 

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Discovery of vibrant deep-sea life prompts new worries over seabed mining
“Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert.

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Discovery of vibrant deep-sea life prompts new worries over seabed mining

Forty years of fathoming life in hot springs on the ocean floor
Ocean-floor hot springs teeming with animal life were reported 40 years ago. How has knowledge of life thriving in such extreme conditions grown since then, and what challenges remain for exploration and conservation down there?

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Forty years of fathoming life in hot springs on the ocean floor

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incredible that anythingh can live in a city ha


Wait, This Majestic Blue Creature Has Been In NYC This Whole Time?
BY JEN CARLSON IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ON MAR 18, 2019 12:12 PM

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Wait, This Majestic Blue Creature Has Been In NYC This Whole Time?
 

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Untangling the Physics Behind Drifting Embers, ‘Firenadoes’ and Other Wildfire Phenomena
Fires can leap rapidly from building to building and even cause extreme weather events such as pyrocumulonimbus storm clouds

Read more: Untangling the Physics Behind Drifting Embers, 'Firenadoes' and Other Wildfire Phenomena | Science | Smithsonian

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GREAT
no other words
helping humankind, not like warmongering politicians

that idiot Trump denying science as well, despicable

THE INVENTOR TRYING TO SUCK WATER FROM THE WORLD'S DRIEST AIR

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The Inventor Trying to Suck Water From the World's Driest Air

With 5 billion facing water shortages by 2050, artist Ap Verheggen has developed patent-pending technology to quench the world’s thirst.

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The Inventor Trying to Suck Water From the World's Driest Air

World's poor pay more for water than the rich: UN

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More than 2 billion people on earth did not have access to clean and drinkable water. Worldwide, the poor and marginalized were less likely to have clean water and sanitation, according to a UNESCO report.

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    Water: a finite resource
    More than two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water. But only a fraction of it - about 3 percent - is fresh water. With the world's population growing fast, the water supply is coming under increasing pressure. Around the world, 2 billion people already have no safe access to drinking water.
World's poor pay more for water than the rich: UN | DW | 19.03.2019

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  • In the Philippines, a marine biologist discovered 88 pounds of plastic in the belly of a young whale that showed signs of emaciation and dehydration.
  • Scientists are about to restart the two giant facilities in the U.S. that register gravitational waves — the ripples in the very fabric of the universe that were predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago.
  • Japan is betting big on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
  • Physicist and Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser has won the prestigious Templeton Prizefor his quest to uncover the “mystery of who we are.”
  • MySpace — the once-dominant social media platform that was largely subsumed by Facebook — may have lost a decade's worth of music uploaded by users.


Wolves and Jaguars Are Already Threatened by Border Razor Wire As Trump Vetoes Bid to Block Emergency Wall Funding

personally wondering if indeed it will be natural disasters that will reclaim our planet,assissted by us

TOP NEWS

After the storm comes the flood



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  • Communities in Middle America are grappling with record flood levels after a “bomb cyclone” hit last week and killed at least three people. A combination of wind, rain, and snow has left large areas across the country flooded as runoff rushes over non-absorbent frozen ground. [Vox / Brian Resnick and Kainaz Amaria]
  • Reports call the mega-storm a “snowy hurricane,” with dry desert air clashing with wetter air from the Gulf of Mexico. The bomb cyclone hit Colorado last Wednesday and reached the Midwest by Thursday, bringing whiteout snow and heavy rains to the region, and even a tornado in Kansas. Evacuations of thousands of people ensued. [CBS News]
  • After the storm came the flooding. Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska declared states of emergency due to record-high overflows. In many cases, helicopters are the only way to access stranded people. The flooding may take days to go down, and in Nebraska, officials were concerned for the life-threatening impact of a breached levee. [NPR / Shannon Van Sant]
  • There’s too much water, but also too little. Potable water is an issue in flooded areas due to power losses cutting off city wells. On Sunday, Lincoln, Nebraska, restricted water usage, with a 50 percent reduction in residential use to protect usable resources. [Lincoln Journal Star / Nancy Hicks]
  • The devastation is becoming a reality for farmers, especially in Nebraska, who lost not only livestock but also valuable cropland as rivers overflowed with runoff water. Record-high water levels destroyed gas stations, and infrastructure was crippled by the ice that drove the melted water into roads. The already tenuous farm economy could suffer millions of dollars' worth of losses. [Washington Post / Laura Reiley]
  • Overflowing rivers have washing away family homes, railways, and roads. In some areas, flooding reached over 10 feet. [NYT / Blacki Migliozzi and Scott Reinhard]

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Untangling the Physics Behind Drifting Embers, ‘Firenadoes’ and Other Wildfire Phenomena
Fires can leap rapidly from building to building and even cause extreme weather events such as pyrocumulonimbus storm clouds

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The damage isn't done in Mozambique

The southern African country has declared a state of emergency in the wake of devastating floods wrought by Cyclone Idai, and it may only get worse from here. The storm, one of the region's most powerful on record, has affectedmore than 1.5 million people, with a death toll now in the dozens but feared to exceed 1,000. Heavy rain is still falling over western Mozambique and neighboring Zimbabwe and is forecast to continue until the end of the week.

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  • Idai destroyed "90%" of Beira, Mozambique's fourth-largest city with a population of nearly half a million people, the Red Cross said.
  • African economists fear the scale of devastation will be "very damaging." Mozambique is already in default on about $2 billion of external commercial debt.

  • Mozambique’s worst-recorded flooding occurred in 2000, when Cyclone Leon-Eline struck, killing about 800 people.
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Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1,000


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U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, who was appointed to the federal bench in 2013 by Barack Obama, has been key to pumping the brakes on TransCanada’s controversial $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline.

Late last year, Morris nixed the State Department’s approval of Keystone XL, arguing that the agency didn’t take the project’s contributions to climate change into account before giving it the green light. The judge said the government would have to come back with a better environmental review in hand in order to proceed — the federal equivalent of having to re-do your homework.

TransCanada didn’t exactly appreciate Morris’ decision and turned to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to essentially override his ruling. On Friday, that court sided with Morris, ruling to uphold his decision and striking a possibly fatal blow to TransCanada’s pipe dreams.

Won’t the company just resort to more legal maneuvering to get its pipeline approved? Maybe. But this new setback means TransCanada will likely miss out on the 2019 construction season. “According to TransCanada, today’s decision means the earliest TransCanada could start construction is 2020, if it ever starts at all,” the Sierra Club said in a press release.

The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000 putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures.

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