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U expert: Stop backyard bird feeding while avian flu spreads

U expert: Stop backyard bird feeding while avian flu spreads

Minnesotans should hold off feeding their backyard birds for awhile and should also take steps to sanitize their feeders to help protect birds as avian flu circulates across the state, the head of the University of Minnesota Raptor Center tells MPR News.
by Lorna Benson

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Bald eagles around the U.S. are contracting the bird flu

Bald eagles around the U.S. are contracting the bird flu

At least three bald eagles who contracted bird flu are dead. The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota says it has been taking in one to three birds of different species a day, with many severely ill and suffering from seizures.
by Rina Torchinsky

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Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change

Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change

Last year, Congress pledged $3.5 billion to carbon capture and sequestration projects around the United States, which has been called the largest federal investment ever by advocates for the technology. But environmental justice advocates and residents of legacy pollution communities are wary of the technology, with many calling it a “false solution.”
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How rising temperatures would bring on a longer, more intense allergy season

How rising temperatures would bring on a longer, more intense allergy season

As the climate warms, plants would bloom earlier in the spring, overlap with other species and even start growing in new locations. That's bad news for people with pollen allergies.
by Lauren Sommer

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Study: There's still a way to reach global goal on climate change

Study: There's still a way to reach global goal on climate change

A new study finds that if the nations of the world live up to their promises, future climate change can be kept to within an international goal set by scientists. But it won't be the safest international goal.
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In an exception to the Clean Air Act, Biden will allow E15 gas to be sold this summer

In an exception to the Clean Air Act, Biden will allow E15 gas to be sold this summer

The fuel is normally banned from sale in the summer to combat smog. Trump also allowed summer sales of the 15-percent ethanol blend in 2019 after U.S. farmers were hurt by his trade war with China.
by Eric McDaniel

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