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Understand details of study about crop acres
A new study from the Geographic Information Science Center at South Dakota State University was published last week showing that satellite imagery revealed 1.3 million acres of grassland have been converted to corn/soybeans from 2006 through 2011 in North...Tags: Environmental Issues, South Dakota State University
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Mail Call - March 7
“I was wondering if anybody knows who to contact if you do not have very hot water in your apartment, that you can’t even take a shower, and that the kitchen sink’s water, you just put your hand under it, it doesn’t feel hot at all...Tags: Annapolis, Medical Procedures and Tests, Environmental Issues, Budget Control Act of 2011, Personal Weapon Control
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The Amtrak fantasy
WASHINGTON -- There is something about Amtrak -- perhaps the romance of railroads or the promise of relieving traffic congestion and economizing on oil and greenhouse gas emissions -- that causes otherwise sensible people to lose contact with reality. The...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Amtrak, Railway Transportation, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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Study: Global warming will bring more intense downpours
Sun SentinelSouth Florida, no stranger to heavy rains, could see even more torrential downpours, thanks to global warming. Much of the Northern Hemisphere will be subject to more extreme rain events because of increasing levels of greenhouse gases, according to a...Tags: Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, Palm Beach County, Science and Technology, Hurricane Isaac (2012)
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Gov. Brown will mean business on his weeklong trip to China
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown is stepping back onto the world stage. After two years largely spent cloistered in California tending to the fiscal crisis, he starts a weeklong visit to China on Tuesday in a bid to reclaim the state's reputation...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Regional Authority, China
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Letters: Keystone XL's purpose
Re "A pipeline to disaster," Opinion, April 4 Climate scientist James Hansen is right to push for reducing our carbon dioxide emissions to minimize global warming, but he has no sense of using the political art of compromise to achieve our goals. As...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Nobel Prize Awards, Keystone XL Pipeline, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Entertainment Events
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Climate change will increase extreme precipitation levels
Rainfall or snowfall dumped by the most intense storms could grow significantly heavier in most of the United States by the final decades of the century, according to a new climate change study. The paper, written by a research team led by scientists...
Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Weather, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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U.S. climate researchers predict heavier rains, snows as globe warms
A recently published study led by U.S. government climate researchers predicts warming global temperatures will mean more moisture in the air, and thus heavier precipitation extremes. The research, reported in the peer-reviewed academic journal...
Tags: Weather Statistics, Environmental Issues, Weather, North Carolina State University, Science and Technology
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Letters: Worry vs. action on global warming
Re "Most in U.S. worried about sea level rise," March 30 Building sea walls and other measures to protect coastal developments address the symptoms of climate change, not the cause. We need to support legislation to counteract global warming, such as...Tags: Ecosystems, Conservation, Bernard Sanders, Weather, Environmental Issues
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Obama to announce picks to head Energy Department, EPA
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is expected Monday to name Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear physicist Ernest J. Moniz to lead the Energy Department, and the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-air chief, Gina McCarthy, to run that agency,...Tags: Ecosystems, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Science and Technology
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Groups seek probe into low-grade crude shipments to L.A. refineries
A coalition of environmental groups says it has discovered that large-scale shipments of low-quality heavy crude oil from Canada's tar sands are being delivered by rail for processing by Southern California refineries. The groups on Tuesday called for...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues, Keystone XL Pipeline, Personal Income
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As coastal sea levels rise, Congress sticks its head in the sand
Thanks for your article on climate change and rising sea levels ("Survey shows Americans wary of sea level rising," March 29.) Global warming is driving major change in sea levels. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's...Tags: Lobbying, Ecosystems, Environmental Issues, Weather, Oceans
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