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By Amelia Nierenberg The New York Times Sara Grant was inside her home this month in Sherman, Conn., a small town near the New York state line. Her 2-year-old was upstairs. Her newborn daughter was in her arms. Suddenly, she saw her 4-year-old son, Gavin, running up the driveway, sobbing. A bear ...
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By Jack Ewing, Clifford Krauss and Lisa Friedman The New York Times TETON VILLAGE, Wyo.>> Like many people driving an electric car for the first time, Mikey Marohn had questions: Could he drive hundreds of miles to visit his father without stopping? Where would the chargers be? How did you t...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
All-out effort started to save creatures, habitat   By Tammy Webber The Associated Press POTTER, Neb.>> When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, th...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
It’s part of a national movement to have universities’ divest all holdings in fossil fuels. The university says its efforts to minimize climate change have been “innovative” and “consistent.”   By Danish Bajwa August 29, 2023   As the fall semester approaches, student groups at C...
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City wants cleaner air, better mobility for cyclists, pedestrians By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The venerable American ritual of palming a burger while gripping the steering wheel, as grease and ketchup drip onto shirt and lap, soon could face resistance as thick as honey mustard sauce ...
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Posted by on in Forestry
Wee woodlands support “all manner of life, both above and below ground”     By Cara Buckley The New York Times The tiny forest lives atop an old landfill in the city of Cambridge, Mass. Although it is still a baby, it’s already acting quite a bit older than its actual age, which is ju...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
n the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact. Videos and images analyzed...
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Posted by on in Human Health
The pandemic led to repeated closures in Denver and the U.S. amid poor ventilation     By Apoorva Mandavilli The New York Times On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Gabe Stern The Associated Press RENO, Nev.>> Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs. But last summer,...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
 By Elena Becatoros The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece>> The nightmare repeats itself every year: A towering wall of flames devours forests, farmland and homes, forcing animals and people to flee for their lives. With their hot, dry summers, Greece and its southern European neighbors exp...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them....
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Posted by on in Human Health
  By Tara Copp The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> No harmful levels of carcinogenic PCBs were found inside the missile launch facilities at F.E. Warren Air Force base in Wyoming, the service said Tuesday, as it looks for possible causes for cancers being reported among its nuclear missi...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By David Sharp and Jim Morris The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia>> Firefighters battling wildfires in Canada on Saturday sought to stop flames that swept through the West Kelowna suburbs in British Columbia, forced the evacuation of a university campus and fouled the air with t...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
By Lisa Friedman The New York Times The Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico. The Trump administratio...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management in the San Luis Valley filed a whistleblower complaint Monday, saying her bosses are failing to enforce livestock grazing rules on public lands and are jeopardizing the ecosystem along the Rio Grande Ri...
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Posted by on in Human Health
By Audrey McAvoy, Claire Rush and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii>> Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for — a st...
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Posted by on in Transportation
Environmental analysis of potential impacts of hauling crude oil insufficient, court finds By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Development has paused on a proposed railway that would haul millions of gallons of crude oil through Colorado after a federal appeals court on Friday found sign...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
The Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement agreement with Suncor Energy after the federal agency found multiple flaws in the Commerce City refinery’s safety reporting systems during a 2020 inspection. The EPA’s inspection followed a 2019 malfunction that caused the refinery to spew as...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Olga R. Rodriguez and Haven Daley The Associated Press PARADISE, Calif.>> Residents driven from their homes by one of the deadliest wildfires in recent history had one request before they would rebuild in the small mountain town of Paradise: warning sirens to bolster town emergency system...
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Posted by on in Human Health
           FOREVER CHEMICALS More communities take makers to court as costs start to pile up   By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. CASTLE ROCK>> They stand at least 30 feet tall and 10 feet across, eight giant baby blue tanks filled with what is th...
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