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10.01.2009 2:41 pm

New report identifies national parks most at risk from climate change

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Rocky Mountain Climate Organization identified 25 national parks most at risk from climate change.

A few of the notables include: Yellowstone, Glacier, Acadia, Everglades, Great Smoky and Zion National Parks.

Most of the…

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09.23.2009 4:32 pm

St. Louis-based environmental activist in custody following G20 protest

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Greenpeace activists in Pittsburgh

Greenpeace activists in Pittsburgh

Chelsea Ritter Soronen, a St. Louis-based activist for Greenpeace, was among nine group members arrested today following a protest at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Ritter Soronen, 22, and other Greenpeace activists rappelled off the city’s West End bridge with a massive banner…

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07.08.2009 12:40 pm

Environmental group says climate change driving dengue fever fears in the U.S

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Asian Tiger mosquito

Asian Tiger mosquito

First we had West Nile worry about.

Now, there’s another horrible mosquito-born looming, an environmental group says.

The Natural Resources Defense Council released a study Wednesday that says dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, could be coming to a town…

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07.07.2009 12:17 pm

EPA Administrator testifies on climate legislation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photo of Lisa P. Jackson. Courtesy of US EPA

Photo of Lisa P. Jackson. Courtesy of US EPA

You wouldn’t know it if you were watching most news networks right now, but there is news outside Neverland.

Several high-ranking administration officials are testifying before a key Senate committee today on the…

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06.16.2009 2:42 pm

New report provides assessment of climate change impacts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In what’s being hailed as the most authoritative assessment of climate change impacts in the U.S., a new report released Tuesday paints a rather gloomy future of extreme weather events, rising sea levels and crop failures.

The 190-gage report, conducted by an interagency team…

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04.24.2009 12:28 pm

Wetlands likely source of ancient methane burp

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photo of Greenland ice sheets by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Photo of Greenland ice sheets by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

And now for a little good news on the climate change front.

For years, scientists have worried that climate change could trigger a huge release of methane gas from seafloor deposits,…

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