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Local students win C-SPAN documentary contest
They’re still in school but they’re already making their TV debut – on C-SPAN. Eight South Florida students won C-SPAN’s StudentCam competition that asks middle and high school students to produce five to eight minute...Tags: Weather, C-SPAN (tv network), Students, Key Biscayne, Education
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States, cities, environmental groups demand EPA emission rules
WASHINGTON -- A dozen states and cities and three major environmental groups have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the regulator unless it issues final rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On...
Tags: Washington, DC, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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Iraqi immigrant wins Goldman Environmental Prize
During his 30-year reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein repeatedly plunged the country into war, even transforming an ancestral marshland some say is the "historical" Garden of Eden into a battleground. To punish political enemies, Hussein built canals with...
Tags: Everglades, Environmental Politics, Iraq, Environmental Issues, Wetlands
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Live video chat with Hugh Howey, author of the sensational 'Wool'
Join us for a live video chat with Hugh Howey, author of the sensational dystopia "Wool." First self-published as an e-book -- as a single short story, even -- "Wool" gained its own momentum and is now a 528-page print book published this month by Simon &...
Tags: Book, Environmental Issues, Social Media, Google+, Conservation
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Investor Coalition Says Insurers Should Have Better Climate-Change Strategies
The Hartford CourantAn investors group says the insurance industry needs to better prepare for coming shifts in the earth's climate. The critique came in a report released Thursday by Ceres, a Boston-based coalition of institutional investors that advocate for...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather, Environmental Issues, Insurance, Natural Disasters
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New teaching standards delve more deeply into climate change
The politically touchy topic of climate change will be taught more deeply to students under proposed new national science standards released Tuesday. The Next Generation Science Standards, developed over the last 18 months by California and 25 other...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Labor Markets, Environmental Issues, Technology, Google Inc.
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Phoenix's too hot future
If cities were stocks, you'd want to short Phoenix. Of course, it's an easy city to pick on. The nation's 13th-largest metropolitan area crams 4.3 million people into a low bowl in a hot desert, where horrific heat waves and windstorms visit it...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather, Renewable Energy, Phoenix (music group), Environmental Issues
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Dan Turner dies at 49; Times editorial writer
Dan Turner, a Times editorial writer for nearly a decade who was known for his sharply witty observations on a broad range of subjects, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 49. The cause was pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed two years ago,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Environmental Issues, Pancreatic Cancer, Politics
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French wine could get pricey, climate change study says
That bottle of Bordeaux you put aside may become even rarer in the next few decades as climate change could reduce wine grape production in traditional parts of the world and move it elsewhere, researchers say. Danish Cabernet, anyone? Wine grape...
Tags: Weather, Viniculture, Grapes, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Foltz honored for international development work
MANILA, Philippines -- Joseph Foltz of Petoskey, deputy chief for the Office of Environment, Energy and Climate Change at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Philippines, was recently honored for his outstanding work in the...
Tags: Philippines, Weather, Rwanda, Manila (Philippines), Environmental Issues
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Buckle up: Climate change may cause bumpier flights
Are you the kind of air traveler who turns green when your plane encounters air turbulence? Do you always have a beverage in your hand when the captain illuminates the "fasten seat belts" sign and apologizes for a bit of mid-flight "chop"? If so, you...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Weather, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation
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Cal Fire's flawed fire plan
California has a love-hate relationship with wildfire. We can't live with it and can't live without it. For thousands of years, fire — caused mainly by lightning — was a natural part of the landscape, which evolved to thrive on and even...
Tags: Wildfires, Natural Resource Industry, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Conservation
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