Steve Cutts (2012) Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land Patagonia files claim against Trump over removing Bears Ears protections 170 environmental defenders have been killed so far in 2017 while protecting their community’s land or natural resources *** (107)
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Irma and Harvey lay the costs of climate change denial at Trump’s door Climate change cannot be blamed for the hurricane count in any single season, nor for the occurrence of any single storm, but there are three ways in which it is making the consequences worse. First, although the…
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Hurricane Harvey: Zip Code & Race Determine Who Will Bear Burden Of Climate Change DR. ROBERT BULLARD: Well, the best predictor of health and well-being in our society, and including Houston, is ZIP Code. You tell me your ZIP Code, I can tell you how healthy you are. And one…
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Harvey’s Mammoth Deluge Potential: Some Models Are Showing Storm Could Produce Five Feet of Rain During recent years, a warmer than normal atmosphere has been producing more and more intense rain storms. The number of record daily rainfall instances around the world has been rising precipitously (see image above). This…
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What kind of eclipse you are likely to see? Let our visualizations show you The Demons of Darkness Will Eat Men, and Other Solar Eclipse Myths Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (49)
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Elephants unchained: ‘The day has gone by when this was entertainment’ We are, as a species, generally fascinated by elephants. “We see the qualities and characteristics in elephants that we aspire to have ourselves,” says Patricia Sims, the co-founder of World Elephant Day. “Empathy, enduring family bonds, cooperation, intelligence, long…
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Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn…
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House of horrors: inside the US wildlife repository – photo essay If the US had a national house of horrors, it would probably be the federal government compound that lies on the fringes of Denver, Colorado, incongruously set within a wildlife reserve where bison languorously dawdle against a backdrop of the…
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