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In Antarctica, displaced penguins may be a sign of climate change
2016-03-26 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: When researchers who study Adelie penguins in Antarctica returned to their study site to find most of the birds gone, the event made headlines. But the headlines were mostly wrong, according to the researchers. No one knows for sure what became of the missing birds, but Kerry-Jayne Wilson, one of the lead researchers and the author of a new paper about the event, wants to make one thing clear: I don't know where the 150,000 dead penguins came from. It didn't come from our paper, she says....
Back to school for children displaced by LA-area gas leak
2016-01-11 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In the latest disruption from the biggest methane gas leak in California history, nearly 2,000 Los Angeles children returning to class this week after winter break have been reassigned to schools outside the affected area over health concerns. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest public school system, announced the plan after students described headaches, bloody noses, nausea and breathing irritations. Eleven-year-old Cameron Michaels said he suffered daily health...
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"Gentrification: Can Portland give displaced residents a path back?" (The Oregonian, 12/23/15)
2015-12-28 18:11:20| PortlandOnline
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Here's How Hillary Clinton Wants to Support Displaced Coal Workers
2015-11-13 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed a $30 billion plan to help displaced workers in coal-producing areas find new jobs and continue receiving health benefits as the country shifts to using renewable energy and more natural gas. Clinton's proposals expand on her earlier pledge to protect and build on President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan. Republicans have criticized Obama's plan as a "war on coal" that will devastate producing regions. The U.S. coal...
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Pitt to aid displaced U.S. Steel employees
2015-03-11 23:47:53| Steel - Topix.net
The University of Pittsburgh's Small Business Development Center has received a $100,000 Small Business Administration grant to help displaced workers and small business owners affected by the closing of a United States Steel Corp. plant in McKeesport. U.S. Steel announced the indefinite idling of the plant in June 2014, citing the importation of unfairly traded tubular products into the country.
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