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Climate change and corporate greed combine to destroy forests with fire and felling
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26.9.2018 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Ed Finn
The razing of millions of acres of forests by wildfires has been increasing in scale and intensity for the past few decades. This year has set new records for the number of trees and shrubs destroyed by fire -- not just in the United States and Canada, but also in many other countries, including England, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sweden, Latvia, and North Korea.
Wildfires, of course, have been a yearly occurrence in the summer months for centuries. Triggered mainly by lightning, they were nature's way of disposing of dead timber and providing fertile ground for new plant growth.
That is still an important natural process, although many conflagrations today are unnaturally caused by human carelessness, such as poorly tended campfires and flipped-away cigarette butts.
Far more devastating for the world's forests today, however, are the effects of global warming, mostly caused by the greenhouse gas emissions that emanate from the burning of fossil fuels.
One of the detrimental effects of climate ... |
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Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences to reopen 80-year-old dioramas after restoration
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19.9.2018 |
Philly.com News |
| Famed dioramas of gorillas and takin have undergone their first restoration since they were installed in the 1930s. |
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Minnesota cities to Congress: Let us help the bees
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19.9.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Politics |
The House version of the farm bill being debated in Congress would bar cities from placing stricter regulations on pesticides. |
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Photos: A new market -- Keg and Case opens in St. Paul
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15.9.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Business |
Keg and Case Market opened to the public Friday on the grounds of the former Schmidt Brewery on West Seventh Street in St. Paul. The market features a variety of retail, dining and drinking establishments. |
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Impact of aquatic invasive species on Minnesota lakes and rivers
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23.8.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Law & Justice |
The damage to Minnesota's lakes and rivers caused by invasive aquatic species. |
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$10M question: Are counties' efforts to fight aquatic invasives working?
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21.8.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
In 2014, the Legislature took the unusual step of setting aside $10 million each year to distribute to the counties fighting invasive species. Counties are using that money to expand boat inspection programs, but also trying some innovative approaches. |
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For the next big innovation for agriculture, think small
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17.8.2018 |
Small Business | GreenBiz.com |
Companies large and small, and even the likes of Nicole Kidman, are increasingly finding insects appetizing and sustainable. |
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Spring is springing sooner, throwing nature's rhythms out of whack
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23.7.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
A warming climate is knocking nature's rhythms out of sync. High in the Rocky Mountains, scientists have been tracking the impact for decades |
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Trump aims to end automatic protections for some species
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20.7.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Law & Justice |
The Trump administration on Thursday proposed ending automatic protections for threatened animal and plant species and limiting habitat safeguards that are meant to shield recovering species from harm. |
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To repel ticks, try spraying your clothes with a pesticide derived from mums
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9.7.2018 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Law & Justice |
Just in time for summer hikes and outdoor play: A study finds that the ticks that often convey Lyme disease become unable to bite, and soon die after exposure to clothing treated with permethrin. |
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Climate Change Is Making It Harder to Revive Damaged Land
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5.7.2018 |
Mother Jones |
| This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carianne Campbell remembers the exact moment she fell in love with the Sonoran Desert. As a botany major in college, she joined a class field trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the southern border of Arizona, arriving and […] |
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These 8 nature-based startups from around the world are going to save it
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13.6.2018 |
Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com |
And this environmental impact accelerator is going to help. |
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Desert Bees Have Figured Out Something We’re All Going Need To Learn
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25.5.2018 |
Mother Jones |
| This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A cluster of leafcutter bees are foraging for nectar and pollen on an unseasonably hot May morning in Bandelier National Monument, in northern New Mexico. Tiny, with few bright markings, they don’t look like bees at first—more like dark-colored buzzy insects. But […] |
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A rare great ape, a 130-foot-tall tree and an extinct marsupial lion make the Top 10 New Species list for 2018
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23.5.2018 |
LA Times: Science |
The highest branches of a Brazilian forest. The permanent darkness of a cave in China. The deepest place on Earth. Meet the Top 10 new species that were described by science in the previous year. |
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How air pollution, a dying river and swarms of defecating insects threaten the Taj Mahal
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22.5.2018 |
L.A. Times - World News |
| India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.” One wonders whether the late Nobel laureate could have found a lyrical description of the latest threat facing the grand, white-marble...  |
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A little extra global warming will mean a lot more habitat loss for plants and animals, study says
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19.5.2018 |
LA Times: Science |
| What difference does half a degree Celsius of global warming make? To many plants and animals, and especially insects, it could mean the difference between life and death, according to a new study. In a paper published Thursday in Science, researchers report that limiting global warming to 1.5...  |
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How Water World has gardened with its patrons in mind — no matter how many legs they have
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18.5.2018 |
Denver Post: Local |
| Sanctuary, by definition means a place of refuge or safety, a nature reserve, which is what Hyland Hills Water World has created as the park has evolved over nearly 40 years. |
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Saving Taj Mahal: Supreme Court says throw out ASI, Govt says calling experts
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10.5.2018 |
Front Page – The Indian Express |
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Europe Just Banned the Chemicals That Lay Waste to Honeybees. But They’re Still Everywhere in the US.
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3.5.2018 |
Mother Jones |
| In late April, the European Union banned a blockbuster trio of neonicotinoid insecticides, marketed by chemical giants Syngenta and Bayer. The decision, motivated by mounting evidence of harm to bees exposed to the chemicals, entrenches a temporary moratorium the EU placed on them back in 2013. Here in the United States, use of neonicotinoids continues unabated. […] |
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Models and mimics are marvels in SE Asia
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2.5.2018 |
The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News |
| Look at those modified wings and the bee antennae. But this is no stinger or biter. It’s a clearwing moth, and you can find similar species near your own location worldwide. It’s all about the mimic, and its model- in this case a generalised stingless bee. Trouble is, you won’t find this guy. Good luck, but he seems to be almost extinct. One of those many new species that will disappear rapidly, just like many others that have been seen just as we destroy their habitat. |
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