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Warming Threat

By | Published: June 4, 2009
MIT Finds Increased Warming Threat if Greenhouse Gases Stay Unchecked In the absence of new policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, calamitous global warming appears much more likely now than it did six years ago, according to comprehensive climate modeling by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT Joint Program on the Science and [...]
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Fire And Water

By | Published: June 4, 2009
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) Fire Protection and Floodplain Reform In the area of the environment and natural resource conservation, significant strides have been made. An additional $33 million has been made available for wildland fire protection. USDA anticipates creating 25,000 new jobs over the next two years on projects relating to land stewardship [...]
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Five Dolphins Stranded

By | Published: June 2, 2009
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service responded last week with members of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network to a report of five northern right whale dolphins stranded on Santa Rosa Island, approximately 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, Calif. With aerial assistance from NOAA’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, four of the five animals were found, [...]
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