Sunday, December 2, 2018

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Trump promised to put coal miners back to work. Kentucky has fewer coal jobs now.

Washington Just Decided To Kill Three Rare Wolf Families: There's still time to speak up for them.

Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft: Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it's a probe sent by extraterrestrials.

California Forests

Sperm don't like heat, so climate change could damage male fertility, study says

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds: The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists

Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970

Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can

Cold, cloudy weather 'could increase your risk of having heart attack': Largest study of its kind finds incidence of heart attacks is higher on days with air temperatures below freezing

New Caledonian crows can create compound tools: The birds are able to combine individual parts to form a long-distance reaching aid

Common household chemicals linked to childhood language delays, study finds

Invasive Reptiles Are Taking Over Florida—and Devouring Its Birds Along the Way: Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and Nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?

After The Fire, The Town Of Paradise Lies In An Ashy Quiet

Half the world’s countries are not reproducing themselves: A "huge surprise" for researchers!

Finland's President Doesn't Recall Talking to President Trump About 'Raking' Forests

To live in California is to be stalked by wildfire. How are we doing? Edgy. Tired. Angry.

Fueling the Fire: Trump thinks logging will stop the burning in California. It won’t.

Trump’s incendiary tweets have no place in burning state

In California, Climate Change Has Turned Rainy Season Into Fire Season

Navigating the wreckage: Natural disasters from the people who experienced it firsthand

Here’s the ‘great climate’ Trump is steering us toward, according to scientists: New study warns we face wildfires, superstorms, floods, droughts all at once, everywhere

Trump just hinted that cold weather disproves global warming. Here’s why he’s wrong

Looking Back with Epperson, Fifty Years Later

Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns

An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities: Archaeologists at a site in what's now Jordan have found evidence of a cosmic calamity

Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment?  Disposable nappies have been named as the latest plastic good we should ban, but there are problems with compostable and reusable alternatives too

This village is being swallowed by the sea

China-backed coal projects prompt climate change fears

Climate crisis as greenhouse gas levels reach record highs

Climate change: Warming gas concentrations at new record high

Hydrogen will never be a full solution to our green energy problems

David Attenborough takes 'people's seat' at climate change talks

Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'

Wealth cannot save you from climate change

Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains.  We’re barking up the wrong tree if we think plants have no higher sentience, says researcher Monica Gagliano – they just don’t show it like we do

Hemp fields offer a late-season pollen source for stressed bees: Low-THC cannabis attracts a wide range of bee species collecting food for larvae

Palm oil: One woman's fight to save 'the last place on Earth'

'We've Made History': Ireland Joins France, Germany and Bulgaria in Banning Fracking​

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.

Climate change: Concerns over report on ocean heating

The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women: How a feminist foreign policy can save us from nuclear weapons.

The White House Is Doing Its Best to Undermine Dire Climate Report: Democrats ramp up pressure to act in wake of most sobering government analysis yet

Exposure to floods, climate change, and poverty in Vietnam

Hanukkah Candles or California Fires?

What’s in the Climate Report the Trump Administration Doesn’t Want You to Read?

Using Trump Tax Cut for Good: Patagonia Donates $10 Million to the Planet

GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS AND OTHER CONSERVATIVES VS. SCIENCE THROUGH HISTORY

Trump administration to allow seismic blasting harmful to marine creatures: Airgun testing in search for oil and gas could harm hundreds of mammals such as dolphins and whales off the Atlantic coast

Trump just okayed seismic oil tests that could kill thousands of marine animals

Trump administration approves seismic tests that could harm thousands of Atlantic dolphins and whales

Sarah Palin says Alaska earthquake damaged her house

Trump says he doesn't believe in climate change because 'air and water is at a record clean': 'They talked about at some point the planets could have freeze to death,' president claims

Three Weeks Later, Still No FEMA Trailers Available for Camp Fire Survivors

Pourquoi les feuilles tombent en automne ?

Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday

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