“Weather balloons, which are typically launched twice a day, provide crucial information on wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity and other measurements. Balloon data is fed directly into the sophisticated computer models used to predict the weather.”
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“There is a gaping hole in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska — a critical shortage bedeviling US forecasts and the National Weather Service since layoffs hit the agency as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s push to shrink the federal government back in February.
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Meanwhile, Trump cuts to the National Weather Service appear to have degraded the ability to forecast for epic Alaskan storms. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
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<- potentially contaminating the water and surrounding lands. On Monday, officials were investigating possible fuel spills stemming from the stations that supply local boats and airplanes.”
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“As a result of melting permafrost, Kipnuk’s key infrastructure is at risk of collapsing into the river whenever it floods after a major storm. Ms. Paul said she was especially worried that abandoned fuel tanks and batteries could leak hazardous waste into the river, ->
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<- is ongoing combustion of fossil fuels. Scarier, there are also worrying signs that the natural carbon sinks in oceans and forests are beginning to buckle.
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<- climate change, we need to shift from asking people to make individual changes. Instead, we need to focus on the power of collective civic action to change policy. Collective action works.”

Dr. Adam Met
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<- and hundreds of other consumer and personal behaviors. Industry has masterfully marketed the ‘carbon footprint’ to put the responsibility of climate action on us as individuals.

“And yet the true problem is structural, not individual. As people concerned about ->
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This sermon is an edited version of a sermon preached in the Plymouth colony in 1621 by Robert Cushman. The sermon is a deep look at 1 Corinthians 10:24, “Do not seek your own advantage but that of the other” as translated in the New Revised Standard Version updated edition.
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<- to allow oil and gas drilling in nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters.
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While ignoring COP30, this past week, the Trump administration announced plans to strip millions of acres of wetlands protections, to change the Endangered Species Act that could make it harder to rescue endangered species from the brink of extinction, and ->
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<- They may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots.”
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His conclusion is a word of encouragement and a call to action. “The republic can break, but it need not. Those who work against the grifters, who reinforce the reality beyond the bubble, are doing right. They are not only holding back authoritarianism, but giving the republic a chance. ->
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This is why I’m engaged in the efforts to minimize how much the climates change. Join me!
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A new report by the UNHCR says I was right. Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have displaced 250 million people. That’s 70,000 people every day, or 2 people being displaced every 3 seconds! And the events that lead to this displacement are growing in number as the world warms.
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