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Webinar: Together, We Can – How To Move Climate Solutions Forward in 2025

Join Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, for highlights of the organization's ongoing work across multiple areas, such as standing up for science, climate solutions, supporting those making a difference and spurring others to act, while also previewing what is on the horizon for 2025. 12:00pm ET.

"Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner"

"For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears. And then, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch about 12,000 years ago, most of them vanished."

Source: NYTimes, 12/05/2024

Experts Study Whale Species So Rare It’s Never Been Seen Alive

"It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery."

Source: AP, 12/05/2024

"Lawmakers Reach Final Deal On WRDA Bill"

"The Senate and House reached a final agreement Tuesday on a major bipartisan water infrastructure bill, which authorizes a range of federal projects to reduce flooding, improve ports and restore ecosystems."

Source: E&E News, 12/05/2024

To Save Dying Swamp, Louisiana Aims To Restore Mississippi River Flow

"Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made barriers has been slowly killing one of the nation’s largest forested wetlands."

Source: AP, 12/05/2024

"Trump Picks Musk Ally Jared Isaacman To Head NASA"

"President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, selecting a billionaire private astronaut and close associate of Elon Musk to oversee an agency closely linked to the SpaceX founder’s business."

Source: Reuters, 12/05/2024

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