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This Invasive Disease-Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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This Invasive Disease Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.  Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]

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Trump Eyes Mining of Pacific Seafloor Near the Marianas Trench

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million acres to 33 million acres, an area […]

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Donald Trump’s Dream of an Alaskan Oil Boom Is Feeling More Like a Bust

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the northeastern sweep of Alaska where the mountains give way to the coastal plain. On screen, the chatter […]

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Halloween Shocker: Trump Axes Work to Learn Whether Offshore Wind Farms Harm Bats

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations—and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question. Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) […]

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Halloween Shocker: Trump Axes Work to Learn Whether Offshore Wind Farms Harm Bats

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations—and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question. Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) […]

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These Native Kids Were First to Witness the Mighty Klamath River’s Rebirth

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ruby Williams’s pink kayak pierced the fog shrouding the mouth of the Klamath River, and she paddled harder. She was flanked on both sides by fellow Indigenous youth from across the basin, and their line of brightly colored boats […]

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To Save Madagascar’s One-of-a-Kind Ecosystems, You Have to Feed the People First

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […]

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Trump Claimed ​Wind Farms Kill Whales—and Then Quietly Axed Research Into the Issue

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean. The New England Aquarium […]

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Trump’s Minions Aim to Cut More Than 2,000 Interior Jobs During the Shutdown

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 2,000 employees could be cut from the Department of Interior during the ongoing federal government shutdown if the Trump administration gets its way.  In a court filing on Monday, the administration listed plans that would […]

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Florida Wildlife Officials Discover Second Case of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wildlife officials in Florida have discovered only the second case in the state of a deadly infection known colloquially as “zombie deer disease,” and are enforcing emergency measures to try to prevent a spread. The highly contagious chronic […]

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The Oceans Act as a Toilet That Flushes Carbon Waste. Marine Heatwaves Are Clogging It Up.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. They’re eaten by little animals called […]

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