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Category: Climate Change

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Tiny New York Village joins worldwide Climate Mobilization, passes Climate Crisis Resolution

February 14, 2020 Renee Shur Cities, Climate Change, Environment Leave a comment

In the tiny village in New York’s Hudson Valley where I reside, there are 1,135 people. The Village of Kinderhook is just one municipality

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16-year-old climate change activist says: “Time to panic”

April 23, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, Environment Leave a comment

In an emotional address to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on April 16, 2019, sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a

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Climate change endangers food favorites like beer, wine, apples, bananas, chocolate

March 8, 2019 Renee Shur Climate Change, Food Leave a comment

For more than forty years, scientists and environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about climate change. In 1975 Dr. Wallace S. Broecker, who first

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FridaysforFuture

15-year-old Swedish student sparks international Fridays for Future movement

March 3, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, International, Protest/Resistamce Leave a comment

Sometimes it takes just one person to spark a movement. Swedish student Greta Thunberg is one such person. In August 2018 the then fifteen-year-old

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montreal

The Montreal Protocol: Saving Earth’s vital ozone layer

January 29, 2019 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Science, Technology Leave a comment

In 1985, three British scientists working at the British Antarctic Survey stunned the world when they discovered that at certain times of the year

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Harvey Streets

Harvey once again raises the justice vs. charity issue

September 3, 2017 Arthur Lieber Climate Change, Community/Common good, Congress, Democracy, Good government, Justice, Republican Brain One comment

It’s like clockwork. A disaster occurs and the airwaves are full of appeals for help from all of us who are clearly more fortunate

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Houston flood: How much is 9 trillion gallons of water?

August 28, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Climate Change, Environment Leave a comment

Houston and Southwest Texas are drowning in what the National Weather Service estimates to be 9 trillion gallons of rainwater—so far [as of two

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EPA

Why she quit: EPA scientist’s scathing letter of resignation

August 2, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Climate Change, Environment, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest 3 comments

On her way out the door, after 30 years with the Environmental Protection Agency, Elizabeth Southerland left a scathing note detailing why she quit.

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Climate Change Scientists

“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”

April 15, 2017 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Trump Leave a comment

At the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the

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Inconvenient Sequel

Just in time: the “Inconvenient Sequel”

April 3, 2017 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Politics One comment

“Don’t let anybody tell you we’re going to get on rocket ships and live on Mars. This is our home.” Eleven years after “An

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