By JENNIFER McDERMOTT – Associated Press PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) — Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to the slower growth of pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm in hot late summer, but this year the grass is standing still. It’s “very nerve wracking” when you’re grazing 600 to 700 cattle, said Kemp, who runs an organic …
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By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE – Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) — Hidden behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a Merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine tree let out distress calls. …
By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE – Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) — Hidden behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a Merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine tree let out distress calls. …
By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE – Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) — Hidden behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and howled, a Merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine tree swooped overhead, emitting shrill …
By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE – Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) — Hidden behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a Merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine tree swooped overhead, emitting shrill …
By DYLAN LOVAN and BRUCE SCHREINER – Associated Press PRESTONBURG, Ky. (AP) — Some Appalachia residents returned to flood-ravaged homes and communities on Saturday to shovel mud and debris and salvage what they could, while the Kentucky governor said search and rescue operations were in the by Torrential torrents inundated region in ongoing rainy days …
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By ED DAVEY – Associated Press The world’s most influential banks must significantly accelerate climate efforts if global temperature rise is to be kept within the livability targets of the Paris Agreement, an assessment by a group of institutional investors released on Thursday warned. Efforts by 27 banking giants in North America, Europe and Asia …
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By DAVID KLEPPER – Associated Press When nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, America’s fossil fuel companies planned their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate. “Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute memo, “will be achieved when the average person …
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By DAVID KLEPPER – Associated Press When nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, America’s fossil fuel companies planned their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate. “Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute memo, “will be achieved when the average citizen …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN and DREW COSTLEY – The Associated Press Scientists, officials and activists have long pointed to the injustice in the national history of greenhouse gas emissions, with rich nations benefiting from global warming and poor suffering, and now a study released Tuesday aims to calculate how many economic impacts major issuers have on …
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