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Chesapeake Bay
'Dead zone': Data confirms dire warnings about algae growing in Chesapeake Bay
USA TODAY
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland scientists have been warning of a growing "dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay. Now the numbers are in, confirming their dire warnings were correct. Natural Resources Department
Alaska
The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon
CNN - By Ryan Prior, CNN
(CNN) — Alaska has been in the throes of an unprecedented heat wave this summer, and the heat stress is killing salmon in large numbers. Scientists have observed die-offs of several varieties of Alaskan
Greenland
‘Greenland Is Not for Sale’: Trump’s Talk of a Purchase Draws Derision
The New York Times
Gibraltar
Gibraltar Releases Iranian Tanker, Hours After U.S. Asked to Seize It
The New York Times
U.S. Congress
U.S.-British trade pact won't pass Congress if Good Friday deal harmed - Pelosi
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no chance the U.S. Congress would approve a planned U.S.-British trade deal if Britain’s exit from the European Union undermines the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace agreement
Internal Revenue Service
Report: US government losing billions in corporate tax revenue from IRS budget cuts
USA TODAY - Maureen Groppe
WASHINGTON – The federal government could have collected $34.3 billion more in taxes from the nation’s largest corporations by increasing IRS resources by less than half that amount, according to a new
Stocks
After a key yield curve inversion, stocks typically have another year and a half before doom strikes
CNBC - Thomas Franck
The inversion of the yield curve has been a big worry on traders' minds all year, but historical analysis shows that stocks typically have another 18 …
Recession
5 of the world's biggest economies are at risk of recession
CNN - By Charles Riley, CNN Business
London (CNN Business) — Five big economies are at risk of recession. It won't take much to push them over the edge. The British economy shrunk in the second quarter, and growth flat lined in Italy. Data
Biological Species
3 Animals Hurt By the New Endangered Species Act
WIRED - Emily Holden
This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is scaling back the US …
Politics
Trump blinks as trade war threatens consumers
thehill.com - Sylvan Lane
President Trump on Tuesday moved to protect U.S. consumers from the next round of his trade war with China amid mounting threats to the economy and …
Recession
The US gets its biggest recession warning yet as the most closely watched part of the yield curve inverts
Business Insider - Carmen Reinicke
• The spread between two- and 10-year Treasury yields fell below zero, an occurrence that's preceded each of the last seven recessions.• The yield on the 30-year note also fell to a new low, amplifying
Biological Species
Trump rewrite of endangered species rule could threaten monarch butterflies, environmental group warns
thehill.com - John Bowden
The Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act could endanger efforts to preserve the monarch butterfly and other species on the …
Business
Oregon passes law requiring eggs sold there to come from cage-free hens
thehill.com - Aris Folley
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) signed legislation into law on Monday that requires farms in the state to house egg-laying hens in a cage-free housing …
Rick Perry
Rick Perry: Democrats living 'in a fantasy world' with climate change rhetoric
Fox News - Nick Givas
Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday that Democrats are living in a "fantasy world" when it comes to their climate change rhetoric and accused them of twisting the truth to help bolster their political
Marijuana
Key Congressional Chairman Sends Marijuana Email To NORML Activists
Forbes - Tom Angell
legislation to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and begin repairing the harms of prohibition enforcement, asked the advocacy group's supporters to write their own members of Congress
EPA
22 states sue Trump over repeal of Obama-era power plant rules
thehill.com - Rebecca Beitsch
A coalition of mostly Democratic-led states has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing its rules for addressing power plant …
Meat
The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers
The New York Times - By MELISSA CLARK
At Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver, Kate Kavanaugh trimmed the sinew from a deep-red hunk of beef the size of a bed pillow. “Flatiron steak is the second-most tender muscle in a steer’s body,”
Ethiopia
Ethiopia breaks world record by planting 350 million trees in one day
Euronews Living - Maeve Campbell
In a historic move for the east African nation, Ethiopia has this week announced a tree-planting initiative, via UN Environment, to outdo virtually any other country in the world. Based initially at the
News
Trump administration plans to drastically weaken law protecting endangered species
NBC News - Associated Press
The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save the bald eagle, the California condor and scores of other animals and plants from extinction. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is finalizing
Iowa State Fair
President Trump Says Wind Turbines Cause Cancer. 99% of Iowans Disagree
TIME - Justin Worland / Des Moines, Iowa
Since the early days of his administration, Donald Trump has sought to use his presidency to slow the country’s transition to clean energy, blocking key environmental regulations and lending his support
Chinese Communist Party
The Trade War Hits China Where It Hurts
The Wall Street Journal. - Andy Puzder, Jim Talent
President Trump’s tariffs and other sanctions are hitting China at a vulnerable moment. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported July 15 that gross domestic product grew by 6.2% in the second
U.S. Politics
Farmers back Trump's tariff fight, but don't think it helps them
NBC News - Dante Chinni
As 2020 candidates make their pitch to Iowa, polls reveal a complicated political calculus behind trade policy. WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration's trade fight with China deepens, the impacts are
African-American News
The Mississippi Delta’s History of Black Land Theft
The Atlantic - Vann R. Newkirk II
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms Images above: A sign on a utility pole to deter hunters, near the old Scott-family homestead, Drew, Mississippi; Willena's
Bees
Bees Swarm Berlin, Where Beekeeping Is Booming
The New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE and PALKO KARASZ
BERLIN — They go to the rescue when others would flee. They are the Schwarmfänger, Berlin’s 30 or so swarm-catchers, on call to collect honeybees by the thousands when they gather where people do not them.
Futures Market
3 Big Things Today, August 12
agriculture.com - Tony Dreibus
Crop Futures Fall Overnight; Investors Cut Bullish Positions in Corn, Raise Net-Shorts in Beans Soybeans and grains were lower in overnight trading …
U.S. Treasury
10-year Treasury yield falls below 1.7% amid trade, global growth worries
CNBC - Sam Meredith
At around 6:50 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 1.695%, while the yield …
Business
Gold Is Hot But Nickel Is Hotter As Demand Grows For Batteries In Electric Vehicles
Forbes - Tim Treadgold
Bags filled with nickel briquette and nickel powder sit in a warehouse at the BHP Group Ltd. Kwinana Nickel Refinery in Kwinana, Western Australia, Australia, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. The world's biggest
African Swine Fever
China cuts 2019/20 corn use forecast by 2 million tonnes due to African swine fever
Reuters - by Dominique Patton
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry on Thursday said it was lowering its forecast for corn consumption in the 2019/20 crop year amid outbreaks of African swine fever across the country. The
Oil & Gas Industry
Op-Ed: Why Big Oil fears being put on trial for climate change
Los Angeles Times - Ann Carlson
Oil and gas companies are desperate to stop the wave of lawsuits seeking to hold them financially responsible for their role in climate change. Should these suits get to trial, their executives would to