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Mosquito Bites and Satellites: Tracking Mosquito-Borne Disease with Earth Data
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Recent amendments have “gutted” Climate Bill
12 July 2021
Recent amendments to the Climate Bill have taken the “guts out” of the legislation, according to one of Ireland’s leading climate scientists.
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2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, September 19, 2021 through Sat, September 25, 2021
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Climate school strikers return to the streets the country-over
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Hundreds of students gathered in Dublin today in-person to protest against the Irish government’s inaction on the climate crisis for the first...
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