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Davis, Sacramento Temps to Rise over 8 Degrees by 2100

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|Date: June 05, 2017
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Davis, Sacramento Temps to Rise over 8 Degrees by 2100

by Jerika L.H. New research by Climate Central has given a bleak projection for the future of California, ...

by Jerika L.H. New research by Climate Central has given a bleak projection for the future of California, which it estimates will be pushed into a completely different climatic zone due to the effects ...

June 05, 2017
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California Responds to Trump Pulling out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 02, 2017
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California Responds to Trump Pulling out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement

President Trump made the announcement that most were expecting, that the U.S. will withdraw from the Pari ...

President Trump made the announcement that most were expecting, that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, a move that will weaken efforts to combat global warming and increase the U.S ...

June 02, 2017
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Climate Catastrophe and the Legacy of UC Students

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|Date: May 30, 2017
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Climate Catastrophe and the Legacy of UC Students

(Editor’s note: the writer is a UC Davis student who has requested to submit this anonymously) - It has b ...

(Editor’s note: the writer is a UC Davis student who has requested to submit this anonymously) - It has been six months since hundreds of Aggies took the streets in protest of the election of yet anot ...

May 30, 2017
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10 Arrested, 1 Injured after Protest at Monsanto Woodland Facility Monday; Protestors Charge Monsanto ‘Poisoning’ World

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|Date: May 23, 2017
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10 Arrested, 1 Injured after Protest at Monsanto Woodland Facility Monday; Protestors Charge Monsanto ‘Poisoning’ World

Special to the Davis Vanguard Yolo County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 10 environmental demonstrators and ...

Special to the Davis Vanguard Yolo County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 10 environmental demonstrators and injured at least one in the predawn hours Monday morning at the massive Monsanto facilities mai ...

May 23, 2017
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Sacramento to Host “March for Science” on Earth Day

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|Date: April 21, 2017
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Sacramento to Host “March for Science” on Earth Day

by Jerika L.H. In solidarity with the main event in Washington, DC, Sacramento will participate in The M ...

by Jerika L.H. In solidarity with the main event in Washington, DC, Sacramento will participate in The March for Science on April 22 in protest of recent measures which have defunded global warming ...

April 21, 2017
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Letters to Aguiar-Curry and Dodd on Moving to a Green Economy and Fracking

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|Date: February 23, 2017
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Letters to Aguiar-Curry and Dodd on Moving to a Green Economy and Fracking

Dear Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd: The Davis community has been engaged in a series of ga ...

Dear Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd: The Davis community has been engaged in a series of gatherings to help residents process the realities of the new era and then activate themselves to ...

February 23, 2017
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A Triple Threat to Science

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: February 22, 2017
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A Triple Threat to Science

By Tia Will I believe the new administration in Washington embodies a rejection of science that is differ ...

By Tia Will I believe the new administration in Washington embodies a rejection of science that is different in both nature and magnitude than any we have seen in my lifetime. I believe that although ...

February 22, 2017
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DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2017
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DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies

Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indi ...

Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indigenous People, when the Department of the Army announced it would not approve an easement that ...

January 25, 2017
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What’s Happening in the Arctic, Is Not Staying in the Arctic

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|Date: November 29, 2016
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What’s Happening in the Arctic, Is Not Staying in the Arctic

Tipping Points to Collapse By Debra Chase “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Paci ...

Tipping Points to Collapse By Debra Chase “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was n ...

November 29, 2016
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The Shrinking Life of Krill

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|Date: September 07, 2016
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The Shrinking Life of Krill

By Debra Chase Krill is said to be the largest biomass on the planet, outweighing the human population of ...

By Debra Chase Krill is said to be the largest biomass on the planet, outweighing the human population of the world. Yet in size it is tiny, relative in size to a paper clip, measuring on average abou ...

September 07, 2016
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The Crack That May Soon Destabilize Antarctic’s Largest Ice Shelf

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|Date: September 06, 2016
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The Crack That May Soon Destabilize Antarctic’s Largest Ice Shelf

By Debra Chase Antarctica has 15 major ice shelf areas and, for the past 20 years or so, warming earth te ...

By Debra Chase Antarctica has 15 major ice shelf areas and, for the past 20 years or so, warming earth temperatures have pushed two major sections of the Larsen ice shelf in Antarctica to collapse int ...

September 06, 2016
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On Explaining Science…

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|Date: August 03, 2016
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On Explaining Science…

by John Berg As a scientist, I was astounded when I read this comment in the Vanguard this week: "Humans ...

by John Berg As a scientist, I was astounded when I read this comment in the Vanguard this week: "Humans practice science. Humans are flawed, therefore science is flawed. Apply that to capitalism, ...

August 03, 2016
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Troubling Headlines Show Climate Change Is Moving Faster than Predicted

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|Date: August 02, 2016
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Troubling Headlines Show Climate Change Is Moving Faster than Predicted

By Debra Chase Some of the worst impacts of climate change that were thought to be events that could or w ...

By Debra Chase Some of the worst impacts of climate change that were thought to be events that could or would take place far into the future are here now, faster than expected, much faster than scienc ...

August 02, 2016
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World Heritage Sites in Danger

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|Date: July 01, 2016
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World Heritage Sites in Danger

By Debra Chase “The supreme reality of our time is...the vulnerability of our planet.” When President Joh ...

By Debra Chase “The supreme reality of our time is...the vulnerability of our planet.” When President John F Kennedy spoke those on words June 28, 1963 he could not have known that 53 years later the ...

July 01, 2016
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The Heat is On: Historic Climate Agreement Signing on World Earth Day

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|Date: April 21, 2016
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The Heat is On: Historic Climate Agreement Signing on World Earth Day

By Debra Chase Inextricably connected - every little inch of earth and sky– every life form - large or sm ...

By Debra Chase Inextricably connected - every little inch of earth and sky– every life form - large or small – neglect one part and it all breaks down. This was the overlying message at the December 2 ...

April 21, 2016
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Oil Trains – Open Letter To SACOG And Municipal Governments

Posted by Red Slider
|Date: February 27, 2016
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Oil Trains – Open Letter To SACOG And Municipal Governments

by Red Slider OIL TRAINS - There is a way to make them 100% safe, but no one talks about it. "If you thin ...

by Red Slider OIL TRAINS - There is a way to make them 100% safe, but no one talks about it. "If you think prevention is hard, wait till you have to do response." Most official reviews of Oil Train sa ...

February 27, 2016
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Historic Global Climate Change Agreement Adopted in France

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|Date: December 13, 2015
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Historic Global Climate Change Agreement Adopted in France

by Debra Chase For over twenty years the myth of Sisyphus has been the ruling analogy of the global clima ...

by Debra Chase For over twenty years the myth of Sisyphus has been the ruling analogy of the global climate talks. The ball of past climate conferences has been consistently rolled uphill by diplomats ...

December 13, 2015
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North Of Falcon In Decade Zero: Decisions And Life On Earth

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|Date: November 13, 2015
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North Of Falcon In Decade Zero: Decisions And Life On Earth

By Debra Chase “Florence: Who knows anything about fish? I mean fish don’t tell you anything much do they ...

By Debra Chase “Florence: Who knows anything about fish? I mean fish don’t tell you anything much do they? You ask ‘em a question, they flop around……” Israel Horovitz – North Shore Fish On a cold bree ...

November 13, 2015
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The Life that Sustains Us – Flying on the Wings of Pollinators

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|Date: August 25, 2015
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The Life that Sustains Us – Flying on the Wings of Pollinators

By Debra Chase “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years o ...

By Debra Chase “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.” This quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein and, while there is scant evide ...

August 25, 2015
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President Takes Bold Step on Climate Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2015
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President Takes Bold Step on Climate Change

Initiative Sets Carbon Pollution Standards For Power Plants One Monday, President Obama announced his “Cl ...

Initiative Sets Carbon Pollution Standards For Power Plants One Monday, President Obama announced his “Clean Power Plan,” calling it the biggest step taken to date to combat climate change. The plan s ...

August 04, 2015
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