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New British Prime Minister shuts down Climate Change Office

In a world struggling to preserve its sustainability and tackle on global warming, one major country seems uninterested: after announcing its intention to leave the European Union and electing a new Prime Minister, the UK has all but dissolved the public climate change office, a move which has been catalogued as “shocking” by many environmental

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Massive mangrove die-off in Australia linked to climate change

Sydney (dpa) – A massive die-off of mangrove swamps along the northern coast of Australia was linked to climate change by a leading scientist on Monday. More than 7,000 hectares of dead mangroves along a remote 700-kilometre stretch of coastline was filmed from a helicopter by scientists over the weekend after reports from indigenous rangers

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Climate change, asteroid impact killed off dinosaurs

PARIS (AFP) – The dinosaurs’ long reign was not ended by a merciful knockout punch, but torturous millennia of climate change before and after the oft-blamed space rock slammed into Earth, scientists said Tuesday. The impact at Chicxulub in modern-day Mexico certainly contributed to the disappearance of the giant lizards and other creatures, but was

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Grandma’s food prep. led her to Judaism

-62nd in a series- Exit 45, Pine Valley, California By Donald H. Harrison PINE VALLEY, California – Although she was raised as a Catholic, Judy Hunter Osterberger felt a certain restlessness about religion as a young woman. “I wanted to get to the genesis of things and read the Bible for myself” she recalled.   She investigated

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Dem. Senator Pushes ‘Climate Literacy’ Program In US Schools

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has introduced a bill to enhance to create a federal “climate change education program” to make sure American high schoolers are “climate literate” about man-made global warming. Markey wants the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a nationwide education program for school kids “about climate change and its

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Bernie Sanders’ Staffers Bail Out, Hook Up With Billionaire-Backed Green Group

More than a dozen former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staff members have decided to hook up with a green group funded and founded by mega-wealthy liberal Tom Steyer. Zack Malitz, who headed-up Sanders’ digital organizing team and is now shifting focus to environmental group NextGen Climate, said he and other former Sanders staffers are bringing

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Jolie, Kerry call for refugees to be welcomed

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)– Noting that Monday was World Refugee Day, Secretary of State John Kerry held a joint news conference with actress Angelina Jolie-Pitt, who is a special envoy for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Here is a text of their remarks: SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my enormous pleasure to

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