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Cuomo budget prioritizes fight against climate change

By Gwendolyn Craig

"New York has to be the state that stands up and says once and for all, 'We have to do more and we have to do it faster, and let's pledge the largest amount of any state in the United States of America.'"

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The Adirondack flood of the future?

By Tim Rowland

Perhaps most ominously, as the climate grows increasingly tormented, this was not a classic nor’easter, or the remnants of a hurricane tracking up the Hudson. This was just a rainstorm.

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2019 Adirondack stories of the year

By Brandon Loomis

Whatever you want to call it -- even if you just call it a lot of people enjoying nature -- the effort to understand and plan for the rising number of people driving to and hiking in the High Peaks dominated discussions among Adirondack Park advocates, municipal officials and resource managers in 2019.

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New Sunrise hub in Saranac Lake plans Plattsburgh ‘strike’

By Ben Westcott

This group of young activists conducts their meetings in accordance with the standards laid out by the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide organization founded in 2017 that mobilizes and unites young people across the U.S. in an effort to lobby lawmakers to adopt legislation that will transition our economy away from its reliance on oil, gas and coal.

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Wild Center’s Youth Climate Summit encourages students to bring plans home to their schools and communities

By Ben Westcott

While most of the schools represented at the summit are in the Adirondacks, students also traveled from other places including Brooklyn, Troy, Utica and Canton.

Wild Center plans to promote local climate solutions

By Ben Westcott

 “The research shows that most people in northern New York State understand that climate change is happening, but it can be really hard for people to connect with solutions."

Warming threatens iconic Adirondack bird species

By Ben Westcott

The report determined that 64 percent of North American bird species are at risk of extinction from climate change. On a more hopeful note, the study found that acting to hold warming to no more than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit since pre-industrial levels—the most ambitious of three scenarios considered in the report—could reduce the vulnerability of 70 percent of these at-risk species.

Young and old rally in Saranac Lake “climate strike”

By Brandon Loomis

“We need more action and less talk," 15-year-old Astrid Livesey said. "That is why we are here, and that is what we demand."

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Global Climate Strikes planned for the Adirondacks

By Ben Westcott

On Friday, Sept. 20, adults are being called on to join schoolchildren who have been skipping class on Fridays to protest a lack of action to stop climate change.

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Author Bill McKibben: ‘We can no longer solve this crisis one Prius at a time’

By Ben Westcott

When Bill McKibben and seven Middlebury College undergraduates started 350.org in an attempt to help put an end to the age of fossil fuels, he might never have dreamed that they would coordinate 5,200 events in 181 countries in a single day, in what CNN called “the most widespread day of political activity in the planet’s history.”

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