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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. Phytoplankton production in the North Atlantic has dropped 10% in the industrial era. Phytoplankton are the base of the oceanic food chain and produce over half of the world’s oxygen. Their
decline tracks with rising global temperatures. </span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-05-phytoplankton-decline-coincides-temperatures-years.html" id="LPlnk57174" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://phys.org/news/2019-05-phytoplankton-decline-coincides-temperatures-years.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Matt Osman, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, overlooking a frozen Baffin Bay to the west, Nuussuaq Peninsula Ice Cap, west Greenland.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. A new way of predicting flooding in estuarine coastal areas should assist emergency management.
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Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new methodology for building computer models that paves the way to better understanding the flood risks faced by coastal communities. That's ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. Climate change is now the number one concern for US insurers.
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Wyoming Public Media: According to a new report, climate change is now the number one concern for North American insurers.Max Rudolph, fellow of the Society of Actuaries and author of the report, said this is the 12th year the group published an analysis."Climate
change took the biggest jump this year of I believe any risk that…</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. Britain has had its first coal-free week of power in about 140 years.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. Arctic permafrost is thawing much faster than predicted, releasing methane and disrupting the landscape.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">6. Since the Green New Deal was proposed in December 2018 support has remained almost unanimous among Democrats but has dropped among Republicans. The more Republicans say they have heard
about the Green New Deal, the less they support it. Fox news has been influential among its fans. <a href="https://mailchi.mp/yale/republican-support-for-the-green-new-deal-decreased-dramatically-in-4-months?e=4dee1d8b35" id="LPlnk960717" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://mailchi.mp/yale/republican-support-for-the-green-new-deal-decreased-dramatically-in-4-months?e=4dee1d8b35</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">7. Kathleen Parker, a Republican columnist at the WA Post, was convinced by the UN report on biodiversity that we need immediate and decisive action.
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