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State of the Warming Climate in 2016: 'Truly Uncharted Territory'

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 Inside  climate  change World Meteorological Organization reveals extent of global warming's impacts last year, including epic Arctic melting, drought and extreme weather. Story here. Please watch this "Planet in Peril" videocast which puts these world changes into a Manitoba context!

Manitoba to axe limits on hog barns

Manitoba Co-Operator Government tables 'red tape reduction' amendments . Story here.

Scientists Call Out Pruitt's False View of Climate Change

i nside  climate  news Countering the new EPA head's contention that carbon dioxide does not drive global warming, scientists' letter says, 'Human beings are changing the Earth's climate.' Details here.

Stop Trump's Massive Cuts to the EPA. Give to Friends of the Earth!

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  Dear Larry, Stop Trump's attacks on the EPA.  Give $15 or more today! If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Express Donate: $15 Express Donate: $25 Express Donate: $50 Or, donate another amount Donald Trump is aiming to cut the EPA by more than 30%. He’d slash more than 3,000 staff. And he’d starve the agency of the resources it needs to protect our air, water, and climate. Attacking the EPA is one of Trump’s top priorities in his budget proposal. But his plan has to go through Congress. That means we can still stop these cuts to the EPA -- but we need your help! Help stop Trump’s massive cuts to the EPA: Give $15 to Friends of the Earth Action today! If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Express Donate: $15 Express Donate: $25 Express Donate: $50 Or, donate anoth

Carbon Dioxide Is Rising at Record Rates - or IS IT?

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CLIMATE CENTRAL The Koch Bros. fertilizer plant in Brandon, MB. PinP image. The main driver of climate change is carbon dioxide . So the fact that it is rising at rates unseen in the instrumental record — and likely much longer than that — is cause for alarm. Yet here we are. Yet the International Energy Agency is telling an apparently different story!

Water scarcity needs “urgent and massive response” in North Africa and Near East

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Food and Agriculture Organization                 Sustainable water use for agriculture requires  transforming food systems and diets.   Story here. Please also read:  New Evidence Confirms Risk That Mideast May Become Uninhabitable and watch my video, "Planet in Peril," here. A young man poses before a parched crop in Ethiopia. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.