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The largest glacier between the high peaks of Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak has melted away after a long battle with global warming.
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The beginning passage of Of Ice and Men, certain to be one of the most talked-about books of the year, is (pardon the pun), chilling: “Ice is a serial killer. It’s not that it wants you dead, but, given the right conditions and enough time, it will end you.”
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Asha Muhingi’s and Jayden Rehwalt’s pasts are dramatically different. Rehwalt was born and raised in Boise. Muhingi was a refugee from Congo, before coming to Boise at the age of 9. But their passion for change and their hopes for treating the planet with greater respect are one-and-the same.
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If you’re worried about climate change, you’ve got a lot more in common with Idahoans than you think.
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If you’re worried about climate change, you’ve got a lot more in common with Idahoans than you thinkMost Idahoans are deeply concerned about climate change, but incorrectly believe most of their fellow Idahoans are not, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications. In fact, the analysis says Idaho is in sync with the majority of Americans who support a range of climate policies, but they’ve been led to believe that they’re in the minority.
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Dr. Ethan Sims spends many of his days and nights in the emergency rooms of St. Luke’s Health System. He also heads Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health. Sad to say, he and his colleagues in Idaho and across the globe see too many links between climate change and health care crises.
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Idaho has a potato shortage. If you haven't heard about it already or noticed fewer and fewer potatoes in your grocery store's produce section, you will soon. So what's behind the spud shortage?
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Morning Edition host George Prentice sits down with author Elizabeth Kolbert to talk about her book "Under a White Sky, the Nature of the Future."
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There’s the “do nothing” approach. Simply put, it's the archaic idea of leaving the environment alone in hopes that nature will fix itself. Then there are a multitude of efforts to stall climate change. But then there are concepts, such as “solar geoengineering,” and the controversial notion of deliberately reflecting sunlight back into space, resulting in a so-called “white sky.” It’s all chronicled in the new must-read, “Under a White Sky,” penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert.
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A radical environmental movement that originated in the UK is now going international, with several chapters in the Mountain West.