disasters
UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
October 9, 2018Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems.
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Puerto Rico planting 750,000 trees to defend land from natural disasters
October 3, 2018"We lost over 31 million trees during both hurricanes. One of the things that we realized early on is that the ecological recovery was a kind of an inspiration for human recovery."
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Indonesia tsunami death more than 800 and rising
October 1, 2018PALU, Indonesia - Residents too afraid to sleep indoors camped out in the darkness while victims recounted harrowing stories of being separated from their loved ones after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that unleashed waves...
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From the standpoint of water
September 24, 2018Trump says Hurricane Florence was very wet, “from the standpoint of water.” Environment writer Marc Brodine shares a few more perspectives, "from the standpoint of water."
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Ravaged by deforestation, Borneo loses nearly 150,000 orangutans in 16 years
September 21, 2018"To prevent further decline and continued local extinctions of orangutans, humanity must act now."
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