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Happening Now – August 2017

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How to View the 2017 Solar Eclipse Safely

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) - August 18, 2017, 02:42:50 PM

Parents and teachers encouraged to have children watch eclipse on video feeds on TV and the internet

Penn State - August 18, 2017, 10:48:12 AM

Nevada and Placer Counties Resource Advisory Committee Meetings Canceled

Tahoe National Forest - August 18, 2017, 09:12:21 AM

State Parks, Placer County move forward with plans to build Memorial Overland Emigrant Trail

Placer County - August 18, 2017, 07:31:50 AM

Placer to consider policy change to allow medical cannabis research lab

Placer County - August 18, 2017, 07:29:44 AM

Warmer with a chance of thunderstorms, again

National Weather Service Sacramento CA - August 18, 2017, 06:18:44 AM

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California

California Independent System Operator Determines Puente Gas Plant on California Coast is Not Needed

Earthjustice - August 18, 2017, 10:55:49 AM

Attorney General Becerra Announces Settlement That Provides Over $51M In Debt Relief to Former Corinthian Students in California

Office of the Attorney General - August 18, 2017, 09:58:14 AM

California climate deal could net big bucks for polluters

CALmatters - August 17, 2017, 12:38:57 PM

Study reveals new salmon species

Karuk Tribe - August 17, 2017, 10:47:14 AM

Agreement signed to protect wildlife, reduce wildfire risk

U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region Fire and Aviation - August 17, 2017, 10:31:39 AM

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USA

Outcome of Senate ACA debate influenced by substantial growth in public support for federal role in universal coverage

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - August 18, 2017, 10:19:33 AM

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tidwell Closes Distinguished Forest Service Career, Announces Retirement

USDA Press Office - August 18, 2017, 10:06:58 AM

ICE Director Homan Promises More Deportations of Immigrants Without Criminal Records, More Devastated Families

YubaNet - August 18, 2017, 09:38:54 AM

Settlement in CIA Torture Psychologists Case

ACLU - August 17, 2017, 08:13:23 AM

VIDEO: Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Vice News - August 17, 2017, 08:10:52 AM

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Op-Ed

Karen Anderson: We Must Remove Shrines to White Supremacy From Public Property

ACLU - August 18, 2017, 09:34:10 AM

Richard E. Frankel: What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?

Richard E. Frankel, History News Network - August 16, 2017, 01:01:56 PM

Dreamhost: We Fight for the Users

DreamHost - August 14, 2017, 05:53:49 PM

Public Citizen: Even Merck will denounce Nazis before Trump

Public Citizen - August 14, 2017, 08:48:29 AM

Robert Reich: The violence in Charlottesville is a national calamity in the making

Robert Reich - August 14, 2017, 08:41:49 AM

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World

Colombia: People Continue to Suffer from Violence Despite Peace Deal

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - August 17, 2017, 09:20:36 AM

Fighting famine: ‘Unprecedented crisis’ putting 20 million people at risk, warns UN agency

UN News - August 14, 2017, 07:22:17 PM

World still lagging on indigenous rights 10 years after historic declaration, UN experts warn

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - August 7, 2017, 04:20:13 PM

Reporters Without Borders decries Israeli decision to close Al Jazeera

Reporters Without Borders - August 7, 2017, 12:20:10 PM

On Hiroshima anniversary, survivors call on states to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - August 3, 2017, 01:59:01 PM

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Enviro

Industrial waste pollutes America’s drinking water

Center for Public Integrity - August 18, 2017, 07:14:09 AM

Small streams have a big influence on our lives

Springer - August 7, 2017, 10:54:13 AM

Zion Explores Cap On Number Of Visitors As Other Parks Fiddle

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - August 4, 2017, 10:59:29 AM

Light pollution as a new threat to pollination

University of Bern - August 3, 2017, 01:56:37 PM

Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History - August 3, 2017, 12:27:14 PM

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Sci-Tech

Migrating birds use a magnetic map to travel long distances

Richard Holland, THE CONVERSATION - August 18, 2017, 07:25:37 AM

The Implications of Cosmic Silence

University of Arkansas - August 14, 2017, 08:05:47 AM

Modern domestic dog has a single geographic origin

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz - August 7, 2017, 10:50:31 AM

Shake It Up: Human-Induced and Natural Earthquakes in Central U.S. Are ‘Inherently Similar’

University of Michigan - August 3, 2017, 12:37:06 PM

Current threats to our oceans are revealed

Frontiers - August 3, 2017, 12:10:33 PM

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Life

Using Private Wells: A Drinking Water Safety Guide

Environmental Working Group - August 14, 2017, 08:45:20 AM

How animals glow (video)

American Chemical Society - August 14, 2017, 07:35:09 AM

New CDC Report: More Americans have epilepsy than ever before

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - August 10, 2017, 10:00:30 AM

10 awesome owl photos for International Owl Awareness Day

U.S. Department of the Interior - August 4, 2017, 11:54:05 AM

UofL physicians explain why you need certified eclipse glasses when viewing the eclipse, and which glasses are safe

University of Louisville - August 3, 2017, 12:39:02 PM

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Cartoons

Future Site of Trump Presidential Library

R.J. Matson - June 3, 2017, 01:29:52 PM

Earth Tweet

Bill Day - June 3, 2017, 01:28:00 PM

Trumpcare Pool

Steve Sack - May 3, 2017, 04:25:08 PM

Fenway Park and racism

Dave Granlund - May 3, 2017, 04:23:42 PM

Trump Tells Democrats They Will Be Sick And Tired Of Winning

R.J. Matson - May 3, 2017, 04:22:19 PM

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