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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Grist

health officials say the first malaria cases in the United States since 2003 were found in Florida and Texas in May and June, and an invasive mosquito species is likely behind spikes in malaria in Djibouti and Ethiopia. But the world faces new threats: U.S. But scientists agree mosquitoes are on the move.

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Potsdam in Germany found that Exxon’s estimates from 1977 to 2003 proved to be just as precise as those from independent academics and government scientists. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded. Luke Cole’s colleague Brent Newell, left, and Enoch Adams, Jr.,

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?

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Celebrate nature on International Mountain Day

AGreenLiving

11 International Mountain Day in 2003 and “encouraged the international community to organize events at all levels on that day to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development.” Then there’s global warming. So it’s not surprising that they have their own day — International Mountain Day.

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How the Electric Utilities Industry Created One of the ‘Largest’ Propaganda Campaigns in U.S. History

DeSmogBlog

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.