Wednesday, December 4, 2019

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Couple Builds A Customized Giant Bed So All Of Their Rescue Dogs Can Sleep Together With Them

10 MINUTES WITH Bobby Hughes: Cleaning up anthracite mining’s legacy has been his mission since he was a youngster. Today, Bobby Hughes is that much closer to achieving his dream.

TRUMP’S BORDER WALL COULD DECIMATE THESE RARE SPECIES: FROM THE JAGUARUNDI TO THE MEXICAN LONG-NOSED BAT, PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDERLANDS FACE THE TRIPLE THREATS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, URBANIZATION AND THE BORDER WALL.

This Dutch farm produces more food but uses no soil and 95% less water.

Climate change protesters stage sit-in during Harvard-Yale game

Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegal Use of Methyl Parathion and to Pay $10.2M in Penalties and Restitution, Thereby Avoiding Felony Convictions for Related Hazardous Waste Violations

Three big storms to bring snow, rain and headaches to Thanksgiving week

Mia Farrow shares photo of Trump children with dead leopard: 'Tell your sons animal cruelty is now a crime'.  Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr have been photographed with a dead elephant and a water buffalo during their 'trophy' hunts in Zimbabwe

'Everything We Have Is Destroyed': Albania Mourns After Deadly Earthquake

Albania earthquake: Rescue effort intensifies amid fresh tremors

Climate activists protest Amazon ahead of Black Friday

The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change, 2 ed.

A Review of Bob Henson’s Awesome Book: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change

Book Review: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change

TEACH-IN: WATER

Japan to dump radioactive water into Pacific Ocean

UN Chief Warns of Point of No Return on Climate Change

UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’

The science is clear: It is understood that we are facing an unprecedented global emergency. We are in a life or death situation of our own making. We must act now.

Climate Reports: Key reports on climate action, climate economics, and on issues that highlight climate impacts and solutions.

New U.N. climate report offers ‘bleak’ emissions forecast

UN: The world has backed itself into a treacherous corner on climate change.  Countries are far off course in meeting emissions goals. More drastic actions are needed to get back on track.

Trump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres

Co2 Levels Hit Three Million Year High - What Does It Mean? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)

Condemning Inaction of Rich Nations, Oxfam Unveils Report Showing Climate-Related Disasters Displaced 200 Million People Since 2008: "People are taking to the streets across the globe to demand urgent climate action. If politicians ignore their pleas, more people will die, more people will go hungry, and more people will be forced from their homes."

'The Science Is Screaming': UN Report Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Global Climate Disaster.  "Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution."

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest destruction is at its highest rate in more than a decade: New satellite measurements show an alarming spike in deforestation this year.

How the Outer Banks are Vanishing — and Leaving NC Defenseless Against Hurricanes

This Outer Banks island is facing more floods and rising sea

Choosing Not To Fly Home For The Holidays, For The Climate's Sake

Trump Signs Law Making Cruelty To Animals A Federal Crime

More Than 100 Military Bases Now at Risk of Water Shortages, GAO Finds

Stand back, farmers — here comes the artificial food: An op-ed celebrating the disruption of the dairy industry left a bad taste for some readers.

How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience: Richard Feynman's method for understanding science can also be used for detecting pseudoscience.

Trump seeks to slash $85 billion from the Education Department budget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-seeks-to-slash-85-billion-from-education-department-budget/2019/03/11/69ab930e-441f-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1_dQqZYNh8j5oFw4kAEBuMeROfBUcF-7mgLrPAG80MgIdxW6doGAFYpdY

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