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Jared Kushner has his filthy, greedy, corrupt eyes focused on Europe's last intact wild river delta. Trump's son-in-law has grandiose plans for Europe's last wild river, particularly the Vjosë delta and its lagoon. The Vjosë River is undammed in Europe outside of Russia, flowing 170 miles from the mountains of Greece through canyons. Unconstrained,...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 07:14 AM PDT
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I used to occasionally use the road over the Gray Ranch (now called the Diamond A, after the name used by William Randolph Hearst while he owned it) to get to the area of Cloverdale and the Coronado National Forest, the latter partly in Arizona (See:...
by Desert Scientist
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 06:08 PM PDT
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Half a century ago last month, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, which, in a move that would be unthinkable today, the Senate had passed unanimously and the House of Representatives approved in a 390-12 vote. As President Joe...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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A warming ocean adds more moisture to the atmosphere, and when conditions are ripe for storms to form, heavy rainfall or snowfall results. In just hours, my part of the country will have received back-to-back winter storms that did not and will not...
by Pakalolo
202 comments
on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 05:20 AM PST
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According to data from NOAA and the North American Ice Service, the world’s ice is in serious trouble not only in the polar regions but also in the Great Lakes, partly due to climate change. Lake Ice in the Great Lakes has declined over the past fifty...
by Pakalolo
137 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 03:45 AM PST
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Saturdays for the Overnight News Digest are generally focused on science happenings. On the last Saturday of the year we are looking back at 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. This is an open thread, so feel free to leave comments below. The biggest event...
by annetteboardman
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 09:01 PM PST
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Having lice is one of life’s lower moments. It causes much wailing, rending of garments, purchasing of funny little combs, and a crushing feeling of ickiness. But lice are common in the animal kingdom, afflicting everything from a teensy mouse to one...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 06:52 AM PST
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Donald Trump was on a malicious mission in 2017 against biodiversity, the environment, and the fight against climate change. One of his first acts was to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by removing critically threatened species status from the...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 04:24 AM PST
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Hypocrisy sums up the trophy hunting industry best. The industry claims critics are racist, yet they are guilty of promoting racial inequality. And now trophy hunting advocates, leaning heavily on their scientific credentials, are proclaiming “media...
by JaredKukura
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 06:30 AM PST
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More than a hundred million people in Brazil endure extraordinary and lethal temperatures. The heat index, a combination of temperature and humidity, shattered records in Rio de Janeiro with 108.5 degrees and a feel-like temperature of 137.3 F. The...
by Pakalolo
183 comments
on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 03:13 AM PST
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Hawaii does not often experience wildfires, and life did not evolve defenses to fire. However, with the rapid acceleration of heat and drought from global warming, that has changed for the North Pacific island chain. With help from the rainforest's...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 02:49 AM PST
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On the final leg of our recent ten-day road trip, we were cruising westbound across the Cascade mountain range of Washington state on interstate 90 and came upon the structure you see above. It was unlike any other overpass we’d seen and I wondered at...
by OceanDiver
117 comments
on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
9 comments
on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 07:54 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Forty-five years ago at the nascent Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado, where I worked on the non-technical side, part of our mission was to come up with ideas or scrutinize others’ ideas for making solar and wind a major factor in...
by Meteor Blades
110 comments
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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An early marine heatwave in Florida made international climate news over the summer when never seen before sea temperatures reached over 100 degrees in August of 2023, according to NOAA. An emerging El Nino partially caused the hot water, but climate...
by Pakalolo
80 comments
on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 03:38 AM PDT
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My first story! And it’s about #beavers! Hi! I’m a long-time lurker! In April 2021, I was minding my own business, watching TV with my husband, when I scrolled through Facebook and discovered that there was a family of beavers in my Chicagoland suburb...
by sushideluxe
45 comments
on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 07:15 AM PDT
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According to Planet Wreckers, a new report by Oil Change International, just five companies are responsible for 51% of planned oil and gas expansion between now and 2050, what many scientists say is the deadline for zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions...
by Meteor Blades
73 comments
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) just issued a report after 4 years of work that’s not good news. Via the Washington Post. Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 11:19 AM PDT
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I don't share the good news on the climate and biodiversity primarily because there isn't much to report. Still, an event yesterday is worthy of visibility, especially when people's power can collectively defeat the power and influence of the fossil...
by Pakalolo
24 comments
on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 03:31 PM PDT
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