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Scientists warn increased flood risk will affect 99,000 Louisianans by 2045

Scientists warn increased flood risk will affect 99,000 Louisianans by 2045

New Orleans Times-Picayune — What if your house flooded twice a month, every month? That's the rate of flooding, termed "chronic inundation," a recent analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) says more than 300,000 coastal homes should expect by 2045 due to sea level rise.
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Watch New Orleans termites destroy this tiny house from the inside out

Watch New Orleans termites destroy this tiny house from the inside out

New Orleans Times-Picayune — Formosan termites hit you where it hurts. The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) created a video documenting, in high definition, how termites target the weakest structures in a home to take it down quickly. The termites, supplied by New Orleans' Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board, show just how vulnerable we all are to the wrath of half a million hungry-hippo-like insects.
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Louisiana to get $992,000 for outdoor recreation and conservation projects

Louisiana to get $992,000 for outdoor recreation and conservation projects

New Orleans Times-Picayune — Louisiana will get nearly $1 million from federal offshore lease revenues for outdoor recreation and conservation projects, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced Monday (June 11). The money, from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), is part of $61.6 million distributed around the country through the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), and federal matching grants that leverage investment in America's state and local public parks.
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Joan Meiners: Quit being willing to kill me and my friends

Joan Meiners: Quit being willing to kill me and my friends

Gainesville Sun — Public roads are for all traffic, bikes included. I commute to work on two wheels instead of four. Every week someone decides this means I deserve to be run off the road, cursed at, or told to ride on the sidewalk.
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Good news: animals won't shrink as the climate gets warmer

Good news: animals won't shrink as the climate gets warmer

New Scientist — Do animals get bigger as the climate they live in gets colder? According to a rule established in 1847, they do - which has had biologists concerned over what climate change might do to animal body size. But now an analysis of the weights and geographical locations of nearly 274,000 individuals from 952 bird and mammal species has challenged the idea.
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The Power of Irma

The Power of Irma

WUFT-TV (Gainesville, FL ) — In the witching hour of Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma hit Gainesville as a Category 1 storm. Wind gusts up to 90 mph uprooted trunks and felled branches across the Tree City. By morning, at least 36 percent of Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) customers, more than 30,000 homes, were out of power.
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The Power of Irma

The Power of Irma

WUFT-TV (Gainesville, FL ) — In the witching hour of Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma hit Gainesville as a Category 1 storm. Wind gusts up to 90 mph uprooted trunks and felled branches across the Tree City. By morning, at least 36 percent of Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) customers, more than 30,000 homes, were out of power.
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Joan Meiners: When scientists go marching

Joan Meiners: When scientists go marching

Gainesville Sun — A group of female ecology graduate students from the University of Florida traveled to Washington, D.C., last weekend to join the masses objecting to the anti-science and anti-women agendas already being enacted by the Trump administration.We left Gainesville on Jan. 20, mere hours after Trump had been sworn into office.
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