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THIS AMAZING ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY! These are the words of Felicia Marcus,
chairwoman of the California State Water Resources Control Board. What she is
referring to is the fact that there was no snow pack to refill the state's
reservoirs during the summer months of...
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. As Shell Scraps Arctic Drilling Plan, Gov. Declares: 'We Need To Get Some
Oil in that Pipeline... Quick'. The same day that the oil giant announced that
it would be abandoning its offshore drilling operations, Gov. Bill Walker said
he was on the phone with the White House renewing...
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player By Ben Kennedy29 September 2015 MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Local10.com) –
Sunday evening's supermoon is causing the second day of high tides along South
Florida's coastline. "I've been here for 20 years and this is the worst it's
ever been," a Miami Beach resident...
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. Desdemona Despair By Oliver Milman30 September 2015 (The Guardian) – At
least 10 million of the world’s poorest people are set to go hungry this year
because of failing crops caused by one of the strongest El Niño climatic events
on record, Oxfam has warned. The charity said several countries...
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. Desdemona Despair By Nick Robins-Early22 September 2015 (The Huffington
Post) – The doomsday seed vault on Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago houses
the world's back up supply of seeds to ensure crop diversity. It contains
deposits of nearly 865,000 varieties of seeds buried within a mountain in case
of catastrophe. Due...
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coming under increasing pressure to scrap green charges that contributed to the
closure of the Redcar plant. The Teesside site, which has produced steel for 160
years, will be mothballed with the loss of 1,700 jobs, its Thai owners SSI UK
announced yesterday. Another 4,000 jobs are...
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. Desdemona Despair 24 September 2015 (The Siberian Times) – Residents in
the TransBaikal district of Mogochinsky reported the 'unnatural' colour of the
Itaka River prompting a full-scale health alert. Local environmental officials
blame 'significant violations' at a local gold mine amid concerns for people
living downstream of the pollution outbreak....
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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American
Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine's Top 25
blogs of 2010. Imagine a huge, concrete mixing truck parked atop a black,
asphalt-looking parking lot begins to unload a deluge of water, the stream
hurtling...
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. Desdemona Despair By Brian Merchant28 September 2015 (Motherboard) – If
every nation that has so far pledged to cut down on its carbon emissions made
good on its promises, the global average temperature would still rise 3.5˚
Celsius by the end of the century. According to a new study from...
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. Bank of England's Carney warns of climate change risk. The Bank of England
governor has given a stark warning that climate change poses a huge risk to
global stability. Zambian president blames global warming for worst power
crisis. Energy shortages in the southern African nation are linked to...
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