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Florida’s first climate change czar is light on relevant experience
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Florida’s first climate change czar is light on relevant experience

It’s unclear from Julia Nesheiwat’s multiple biographies available online what experience she has with the kind of work Florida’s unique climate-change-related challenges demand.
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Florida could face $76 billion in climate change costs by 2040, report says
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Poor mixing of nutrients among looming climate change impacts

Poor mixing of nutrients among looming climate change impacts

A temperature change of 3 to 4 degrees is also big enough to push back annual events, such as bird migrations and the developmental stages of plants, experts say.
New climate study matches cities to their future selves

New climate study matches cities to their future selves

Local officials say study could help them prepare their cities for climate change, including planting different species of trees.
Florida bill would have students learn alternatives to climate change, evolution
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Florida bill would have students learn alternatives to climate change, evolution

A bill that would allow school districts to teach Florida students alternatives to concepts deemed “controversial theories” — such as human-caused climate change and evolution — has been filed in the state Legislature.
Rhode Island House Republicans call for marine life study commission to study effect of wind turbines
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Rhode Island House Republicans call for marine life study commission to study effect of wind turbines

The representatives are renewing their calls for a study commission in light of Deepwater Wind's recent announcement of plans to expand the offshore wind farm off the Rhode Island coast.

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