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"Oil Sands Boom Dries Up in Alberta, Taking Thousands of Jobs With It"

"FORT McMURRAY, Alberta — At a camp for oil workers here, a collection of 16 three-story buildings that once housed 2,000 workers sits empty. A parking lot at a neighboring camp is now dotted with abandoned cars. With oil prices falling precipitously, capital-intensive projects rooted in the heavy crude mined from Alberta’s oil sands are losing money, contributing to the loss of about 35,000 energy industry jobs across the province."

Source: NY Times, 10/13/2015

"Surging Seas, Mapping Choices: Which Sea Level Will We Lock In"

Climate Central has published a new mapping tool that illustrates what areas in the U.S. will be flooded by sea level rise resulting from climate change.

Source: Climate Central, 10/13/2015

Activists Vow Largest Climate Civil Disobedience Ever at Paris Summit

"Thousands of climate change campaigners have promised to blockade a major UN climate summit in Paris with what they say will be non-violent direct action on a scale Europe has not seen before."

Source: Guardian, 10/13/2015

"Wildfires Burn Homes, Prompt Evacuations in Wyoming, Idaho"

"Hundreds of Wyoming residents were forced to flee a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed at least 10 homes even as a separate blaze in neighboring Idaho burned several cabins to the ground and prompted dozens to evacuate, fire managers said on Monday."

Source: Reuters, 10/13/2015

"OSU Researchers Tackle Oklahoma Droughts With Wastewater"

"Researchers at the Oklahoma State University South Central Research Station in Chickasha for the first time Monday will begin using wastewater to irrigate crops grown on one of its test fields."

Source: 1EarthOK, 10/13/2015

"Contaminated Soil Lingers Where Apples Once Grew"

"At homes and day care centers throughout Central Washington, children play in yards contaminated with lead and arsenic."

Source: EarthFix/OPB, 10/13/2015

Turkey Plans 80 Coal-Fired Power Plants -- What About Climate Change?

"ISTANBUL -- Driving along the E5 highway, this ancient city's jumble of concrete block high-rises and Ottoman-domed mosques recedes into the distance. The future gleams."

Source: ClimateWire, 10/13/2015

"The V20: Climate Change's Vulnerable Call for Financial Help"

"A new group of 20 countries, home to 700 million people, face hundreds of billions of dollars in climate-related losses."

Source: InsideClimate News, 10/13/2015

"Evidence Mounts for El Nino That Could Ease Calif. Drought"

"Evidence is mounting that the El Nino ocean-warming phenomenon in the Pacific will spawn a rainy winter in California, potentially easing the state's punishing drought but also bringing the risk of chaotic storms like those that battered the region in the late 1990s."

Source: AP, 10/13/2015

"Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives"

"In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction"

Source: ICIJ, 10/12/2015

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