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We Need an Answer
I wish I was a turtle and could eat
� � �whole
� � �a helium balloon,
I would fly high
� � �in the sky
like a miniature
� � �Japanese monster!
How childish I was once, before ...
by Paul Frea
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 08:37 AM PDT
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Press Advisory for Friday, April 26, 12:30pm Contact: Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon: Regina@californiasalmon.org, 541-951-0126 Scott Artis, Golden State Salmon Association: scott@goldenstatesalmon.org, 925-550-9208 Tribes and Fishing...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 07:39 AM PDT
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On April 10, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) voted unanimously for a complete closure of recreational and commercial salmon seasons on the California Coast for the second year in a row, based on a CDFW recommendation. The closure is due...
by Dan Bacher
10 comments
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 05:05 PM PDT
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The ultimate goal for progressives can be described in rather simple terms: To give both government and capitalism a social conscience. Or in other words, to win over enough people to establish a government dedicated to a social, ecological and...
by psychusa
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Is it time to shut down the shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba for oil tankers, fertilizer, and other dangerous cargo that risk ecological catastrophes? The Red Sea links Europe through Africa and the Middle East, with Djibouti, Egypt,...
by Pakalolo
30 comments
on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 04:39 PM PST
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There’s a new, first-of-its-kind report out today—the 88-page State of the World’s Migratory Species—put together by the Convention on Migratory Species. Let’s just cut to the chase. The report finds that 44% of 1,189 migratory species listed under CMS...
by Meteor Blades
49 comments
on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 08:35 AM PST
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Vidar Helgesen, former Minister of Climate and Environment in Norway, made history when he warned the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2017 that “What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.”. At the time, the Arctic was clearly showing signs...
by Pakalolo
54 comments
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 04:10 PM PST
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As he continues to push the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and voluntary water agreements, Governor Gavin Newsom, with no sense of irony today, announced new actions and efforts “already underway that California is taking to help restore...
by Dan Bacher
8 comments
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:26 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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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
10 comments
on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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SACRAMENTO - As the Delta Smelt has become virtually extinct in the wild and spring-run, winter-run and fall-run Chinook populations on the Sacramento River collapse, the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC) filed an administrative comment with...
by Dan Bacher
5 comments
on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 05:02 PM PST
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On January 16, a Sacramento court ruled that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) lacks the authority to issue revenue bonds to finance the embattled Delta Tunnel, AKA Delta Conveyance Project. Kenneth C. Mennemeier, Jr., Judge for the...
by Dan Bacher
10 comments
on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 02:36 PM PST
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This old mouse is worried. We need help. Life is on the brink of collapse. The natural systems that support life on Earth are failing, and the cause of their breakdown is human meddling. Humans are meddlers by nature, and as long as humanity exists, it...
by Kat Ignatz
13 comments
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 03:00 AM PST
with 18 Recommends
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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
8 comments
on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 08:31 AM PST
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It’s final — For the sixth year in a row, no Delta Smelt have been collected in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) Survey in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from September through December 2023. Once the...
by Dan Bacher
17 comments
on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 03:00 PM PST
with 86 Recommends
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For the sixth year in a row, no Delta Smelt have been collected in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) Survey in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from September through November 2023. Once the most abundant...
by Dan Bacher
20 comments
on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 02:40 PM PST
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Once upon a time, people had what seemed like a good idea... Building four dams on the Lower Snake River �would serve several purposes: provide hydro power, make the river navigable for barge ...
by xaxnar
10 comments
on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
30 comments
on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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NOTE: Earth Matters will not appear on December 24 and December 31. It will return January 7, 2024. December 28 marks the 50th birthday of the signing of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was a solidly bipartisan act of Congress signed by a...
by Meteor Blades
71 comments
on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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From Reuters 12.11.23 A quarter of freshwater fish risk extinction About a quarter of all freshwater fish species are at risk of extinction due to threats from climate change and pollution, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on Monday....
by TheShortSwede
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 12:50 PM PST
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Mixed sentiments greeted Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai December 2 that the United States is pledging $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The fund was established to assist developing nations...
by Meteor Blades
39 comments
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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