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Portland’s heatwave is a consequence of climate change It’s time for us to do something about it share Over the past week, Portland, Oregon has seen summer like never before. Both the unprecedented heat and a sudden urge to spend time inside are strange for a city that’s known for its proximity to the outdoors. This heat wave has challenged Portland’s nature and its spirit.    The truth is, summer here isn’t supposed to be like this. It’s supposed to be mild temperatures, not 112°F of sweltering heat. It’s days at the river, not attempts to boil an egg on the pavement.

Fort Stewart controlled burns program keeps soldiers training in the woods by   An equipment operator with the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Forestry Branch extinguishes a fire at the base of a long leaf pine tree during a controlled burn, April 23 on Fort Stewart, Georgia. (Molly Cook/Fort Stewart Public Affairs Office) FORT STEWART, Ga. — For seven months a year, hundreds of acres of this pine-forest- and wetland-covered Army post burn, sending ominous plumes of smoke miles into the sky that can be seen by thousands of Coastal Georgians in nearby communities. Fort Stewart burns a...

Harvard researchers are studying whether partially blocking the sun using particles high in the atmosphere can reverse global warming. Indigenous peoples and environmental activists are urging the scientists to scrap what they see as an unproductive and risky project.

* Greta Thunberg says geoengineering could hurt vulnerable poor By Alister Doyle OSLO, June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous peoples from around the world on Wednesday urged Harvard University to abandon a project to test ways to dim sunlight as a fix for global warming, saying it posed huge risks to “Mother Earth.” Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, scientists and environmentalists opposed to “solar geoengineering” praised the bid to halt research into an artificial global sunshade, announced at an online conference by the Saami Council representing reindeer herder...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA recently awarded global consulting and digital services provider ICF (NASDAQ: ICFI) a re-compete contract to provide technical and...