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        Flint fiasco is good for lawyers
    
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        Can you guess these three surprising energy trends?
    
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        Cleaning house, kinda, at EPA: Editorial cartoonists have the last laugh
    
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        Zoe Williams: Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan
    
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        Randy Olson: Now more than ever, scientists need to communicate better. Here’s how
    
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        Willie Dwayne Francois III: Returning to life outside prison—without food on the table
    
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    3h

        Cuts to South FL national parks feared under management plan
    
The National Park Service has ordered superintendents of South Florida’s three parks and national preserve to combine management. Critics worry it will lead to cuts at parks already struggling with dwindling budgets.

            www.miamiherald.com
            
    3h

        U.N. pact offers hope to world's climate migrants
    
The United Nations agreed to draw up a migration pact to cope with the millions of migrants moving from country to country. Now campaigners want nations to follow up with concrete action.

            news.trust.org
            
    3h

        Slowing Gulf Stream current to boost warming for 20 years
    
The Atlantic system that warms the UK is slowing down but this may cause even more heating.

            www.bbc.com
            
    3h

        Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands
    
Plant numbers have surged in a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean following the eradication of invasive rats that gobbled up seeds and gnawed away at vegetation, a new study has found. 

            news.mongabay.com
            
    3h

        Resistance to genetically modified seeds in Africa
    
Seeds modified in a lab are often touted as a means to boost agriculture and food security in Africa. There is some resistance on the continent and debate on preserving its traditional seed base instead.

            www.dw.com
            
    4h

        DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging
    
Concern is mounting for the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) vast forests and rich wildlife as logging concessions and licenses to explore for oil in protected areas are prepared ahead of presidential elections later this year. 

            news.mongabay.com
            
    14 July

        Oregon rancher pardoned by Trump: 'I tried to do the right thing'
    
In his first wide-ranging interview since his release, Dwight Hammond Jr. talked about how he coped in prison, how he learned of his pardon and the shock of his sudden release.

            www.oregonlive.com
            
    4h

        Corals have nowhere to hide from climate change
    
Deep waters have long been seen as potential refuges for endangered corals, but a new study suggests that they offer no sanctuary.

            www.theatlantic.com
            
    4h

        If Mike Lee has his way, Utah won't get more monuments
    
A new bill would strip the president of designating new monuments in the state—an idea that has already come to fruition in Alaska and Wyoming.

            www.outsideonline.com
            
    5h

        Fighting for Násafjäll
    
Reindeer herding or mining on Násafjäll? 

            thebarentsobserver.com
            
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        Coal miners are dying of black lung.
    
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    13 July

        Bird brained? Gull scores a ride to organic composting facility. Twice.
    
    Clearly this bird was using its head.

    13 July

        The air in Pittsburgh is unsafe to breathe for about four months a year, according to a new report
    
    "We have decades and decades of this lack of effective enforcement, and it adds up."

    12 July

        Fishermen disregard New Bedford Harbor’s lingering toxic past
    
    Officials keep dredging up PCBs and posting signs at New Bedford Harbor—but studies suggest anglers are eating too much of their contaminated catch.

    12 July

        Allegheny County is being sued for spending Clean Air funds on an office renovation project
    
    "It's just crazy to think the county would want to divert millions of dollars from these funds for one over-the-top building renovation project."

    11 July

        Hot temperatures may be bad for brains, even young and healthy ones: Study
    
    "It's really shocking that we found such a significant effect on a population that is usually considered immune to these heat exposures"

    11 July

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