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IU experts ponder gardening in a warming world
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — While climate scientists often give a dreary picture of a changing Earth, Michael Simmons doesn't believe his plants will die in a barren wasteland. The master gardener planted three apple trees for his last birthday....Tags: Weather, Science and Technology, Global Warming, Environmental Issues, Droughts
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US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide
WASHINGTON (AP) — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather Reports, Weather, Science and Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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'Faith response to climate change' -- Churches work to reduce carbon footprint
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Indiana churches are cutting down their carbon footprint as part of a statewide initiative to promote "a faith response to climate change." The goal is to not only help the environment, but also save money. Hoosier Interfaith...
Tags: Conservation, Energy Saving, Ecosystems, Belief and Faith, Weather
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As Rome Burns
At least Nero played the fiddle while rome burned. But us? Apparently we can’t even read a thermometer. While evidence of climate change piles up around us like withering piles of corn stalks our esteemed leaders are only allowing us to head...
Tags: Ecosystems, Joe McCarthy, Manhattan (New York City), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Weather
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Santorum: Global warming is politics, not science
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science.
Santorum told voters in eastern Ohio on Monday that science is on...Tags: Rick Santorum, Science, Science and Technology, Weather, Politics
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The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
NEW YORK (AP) — Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.
"I don't think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything...Tags: Nature, Greenland, Rick Perry, Ecosystems, Michigan State University
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Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former...Tags: Michigan, Nature, Ecosystems, Lakes and Ponds, Weather
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It Is Serious Now
Now a brief check of news from overseas. In France this has been the driest March through May in 50 years. And the warmest in 110 years. Several European Nations are rapidly preparing emergency plans to conserve water, give farmers millions of dollars...Tags: Ecosystems, Weather, Europe, Water Restrictions, Netherlands
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GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Republican presidential contenders who once supported combatting global warming, the race is heating up.
Most of the GOP White House hopefuls have stepped back from their previous positions on global warming. They're...Tags: Ecosystems, New Jersey, Weather, Global Warming, Tim Pawlenty
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Don't Go West, Young Man
"Go West, Young Man..." When Horace Greeley printed those words he was talking about what awaited farmers and their families in the fertile valleys of parts of the west. Thousands of families took up that mantra, accepted the challenges of actually...Tags: Texas, Ecosystems, Weather, Water Restrictions, Nevada
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GOP strikes early in global warming battle
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Congress just got to work, but House Republicans are already moving to try to block the Obama administration from taking action on global warming. GOP lawmakers have introduced several bills that would hamstring the...Tags: Texas, Ted Poe, Weather, Politics, Global Warming
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New report exonerates climate researchers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Commerce Department investigation has found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of federal climate researchers whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over global climate change. The report from the department's inspector...Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Weather, Science and Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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