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LETTER: Objects To Use Of Phrase 'Climate Change'
While the report on Connecticut's environment addressed in the editorial "Same Shade Of Green" [May 6] is sort of middling, the editorial writers authors can't resist inserting the buzz words "climate change." While Connecticut and parts of the U.S....Tags: Long Island Sound, Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Mountains, Weather, Landforms, Water Supply, Glaciers
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Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U....
Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Water, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Mussels
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Citizen scientists: Help crowd-source climate change research
Citizen scientists, environmentalists and anyone who lives near a power plant -- your services are requested. Climate change scientist Kevin Robert Gurney needs your help in a grand undertaking: the mapping of all the power plants in the world. It's a...
Tags: Weather, European Union, Arizona State University, Environmental Issues, Google Inc.
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Smith Islanders should direct ire at Washington
Tim Wheeler's report on the future of Smith Island and the state's idea to buy residents out so they may relocate tells a heartbreaking story of people whose attachment to the island goes back many years, 400 years in some cases ("Smith Islanders debating...
Tags: Weather, Lobbying, Environmental Issues, Politics, Global Change
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Cattle grazing can promote cheatgrass dominance, study finds
Ranchers often argue that cattle grazing is the best way to combat cheatgrass, an aggressive invader that has taken over vast areas of the Great Basin, destroying the native sagebrush ecosystem and fueling huge wildfires. But a study published today...
Tags: Agriculture, Agricultural Research and Technology, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Science and Technology
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Global warming ruins SoCal Mother's Day
News flash: Global warming hits California! That’s right -- the Golden State has become the Golden Baking State, with temperatures soaring into the triple digits. For example, in Johnny Carson’s “beautiful downtown Burbank” on...
Tags: Weather, Mother's Day, Global Warming, Environmental Issues, Al Gore
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Barack Obama, Global Change, Conservation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Smith Islanders debate buyout offered by state
Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the...
Tags: Oceans, Real Estate, Water, Services and Shopping, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says
WASHINGTON -- Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study’s authors looked at 50,000 common species....
Tags: Weather, Global Warming, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation
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Earth's climate changed dramatically when CO2 hit 400, study says
Wondering where Earth’s climate is headed with an atmosphere that is 400 parts per million carbon dioxide? An arctic bare of ice sheets, forested in pine and fir, with summer temperatures about 14 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today were...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Science and Technology, Conservation
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crosses historic threshold
WASHINGTON -- The ratio of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has surpassed 400 parts per million in an average daily reading at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, the highest concentration of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas in millions of...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Politics, China, Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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