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News Archive

Week of June 24, 2013

News from Across the USM Campuses

Research: Can Climate Change Heat Up Conflict? (UMD Right Now - Latest News, 6/21/13)

Gulf 'Dead Zone' Predicted For Summer 2013, Could Affect Chesapeake Bay As Well (The Associated Press as reported by the Huffington Post, 6/18/13) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

Smaller Chesapeake 'dead zone' forecast: Dry spring washes fewer pollutants into bay, but scientist says cleanup efforts helping (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 6/18/13) [Article cites work of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science staff and quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

State of Maryland News

Baltimore's plastic bag curb widely ignored: Push on to replace ineffective law with fee on plastic and paper (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 6/24/13)

"King tide" in Maryland this weekend, harbinger of sea level rise (By Jason Samenow, The Washingotn Post - Capital Weather Gang, 6/21/13)

The Current (Maryland Clean Energy Center Newsletter, June 2013)

National and International News

"Fearless Summer" movement launches months of intense climate protest (By Susie Cagle, Grist.org, 6/21/13)

5,000 Missing in India Floods: Scientists Say Global Warming is to Blame (By Sarah Lazare, CommonDreams.org, 6/21/13)

Time for the Fossil Fuel Industry to Pay for Their Waste (By The Daily Take - The Thom Hartmann Program as reported by Truth-out.org, 6/20/13)

Buzzkill: Huge bee die-off in Oregon parking lot blamed on insecticide spraying (By John Upton, Grist.org, 6/20/13)

China warns it will execute serious polluters (By John Upton, Grist.org, 6/20/13)

Life in the Green Lane: Protected Bike Lanes Transform the Experience of Riding:

Protected bike lanes, now called Green Lanes, are popping up from Miami to Long Beach, Austin to Chicago. (By Jay Walljasper, Alternet.org - Environment Blog, 6/18/13)

The feds get seriously creepy about climate change (By Susie Cagle, Grist.org, 6/18/13)

‘Every Plant And Tree Died': Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms (By Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 6/18/13)

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