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Manitoba communities brace for possible major spring flooding

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CBC news Manitobans are no strangers to floods. Here, campers make the most of soggy  conditions in Neepawa, 2014. PinP photo. The City of Brandon is already preparing for potential spring flooding. Story here.

'Dante's Inferno' in Chile: Destructive Fires Rage in Record Heat

EcoWatch Records tumble in infernos in Chile. Details here.

Mongolia: Lethal livestock plague now hitting endangered antelope, warns UN agency

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UN News Centre The international pledge to eradicate a devastating livestock disease affecting mostly sheep and goats has taken on new urgency in the wake of a mass die-off of a rare Mongolian antelope, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ). Story here. Mongolian antelope.  Image from Wikipedia.

Manitoba rewrites hog barn regulations

The Western Producer Manitoba is removing “impractical and costly” regulations in an effort to revive its hog industry. Story here.

Trump administration backs off plan to scrub climate pages from EPA website

The Washington Post The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political appointees are exerting more oversight over the agency’s scientific communications. Details here.

One of the last Obama-era climate reports had a troubling update about the rising seas

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The Washington Post A Mexican beach. PinP photo. A  new report , released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, presents a series of updated estimates for future sea-level rise, both in the United States and worldwide. It suggests that, under extreme future climate change, global sea levels could rise by more than eight feet by the end of the century — one of the highest estimates yet to be presented in a federal report.   Details here.