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These articles come in automatically from raw news feeds. I don't have time to clean up the irrelevant and sometimes duplicative stuff, but it nevertheless demonstrates that an aggregated news resource would be very useful locally. Although the Providence Journal is a shadow of its former self, local environment-related news is produced by various independent reporters and groups, including directly from government agencies and nonprofits. At present we either must subscribe to numerous sources flooding our inboxes and news feeds - an assault we don't have time for, or we ignore the issues because the news is scattered and does not reach critical mass. We need local Associated Press-type collating and curating!

Below the latest news are examples of Featured and Indexed articles that I curated a few years ago. This website actually has a lot of valuable background information on Rhode Island's environment. Scroll down the page to see.

Opinion/Letters: Journal’s Election Panel; Obama and the stock markets
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 16:06
In the Garden column: Kale and cabbage color the fall and winter garden
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 15:46
Post Your Observations & Final Observations
RI Osprey Monitoring
3 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 12:18
DEM Confirms August 30 Drowning at Beavertail State Park
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 12:00
Latham Brook Preserve – Smithfield
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
3 years 7 months ago
Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 13:21
Ten Spot Ride Delivered A Day of Small Gathering Fun
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
3 years 7 months ago
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 23:23
OPINION/LETTERS: Bus hub controversy; third political parties; and more
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 7 months ago
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 16:20
State Confirms EEE-Positive Deer; Rhode Island's First Positive EEE Finding in a Mammal in 2020
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 15:00
Style at Home: Making a space for baby
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 20:50
Design Recipes: Bring back black and mauve
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 20:50
Little stream in Providence provides a model for making the Bay cleaner
Providence Journal Environment
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 16:58
Weekly Mosquito Advisory
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 15:15
Governor Raimondo Convenes Task Force to Support Cities, Towns as they Build Long-Term Economic Resiliency
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 14:15
Free Youth Waterfowl Training Workshop September 29
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 12:15
RIDOH Recommends Reopening Warren Town Beach for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 10:30
Study finds Block Island salt pond an 'oasis' for fish
Narwhal's Left Tooth
3 years 7 months ago
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 08:01
Let Greg Vespe take the helm in Narragansett Bay
Fish Wrap Writer
3 years 7 months ago
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 18:30
Opinion/Letters: Other Supreme Court candidates; shocking cartoon; mail-in ballots
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 7 months ago
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 17:20
The Dirt – August 27, 2020: Perennial Sale, Pins, September Meeting, Tons of New Classes
URI Master Gardener Program
3 years 7 months ago
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 14:17
Opinion/Letters: Displacing RIPTA ridership; R.I.’s first women lawmakers; reopening schools
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 7 months ago
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 17:55

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Ideally I'd index the relevant stuff and discard the rest regularly, but I am not devoting my time to this in 2018 and 2019. It would be useful to have this compilation of news from a wide variety of responsible local organizations, though. This is a sample of what could be if more people started working on this project. I did index news from the beginning of 2015 into 2018, with a few gaps. It's possible to keep this up in an hour or two a day. But then I can't do other stuff..... SK

 

[First published in early 2015}  News about Rhode Island's environment is gathered automatically from blogs and feeds, and almost every source originates in Rhode Island. This processcatches some stories that aren't  important or relevant to this website, but everything here is in order of latest date published at top. Some of the feeds don't alwaysn work, some need adjustment, and some stories I see in newspapers or websites that I want to include but can't be brought in automatically, so some news is missing. Eventually, this news service will be refined, but there's plenty to read already.

A more useful way to read the news is by category. I assign environmental categories to news stories as I read them, which sometimes means they don't show up for a little while if I'm taking a break from indexing things here. I don't index the irrelevant stuff. Some stories go back to 2010 because their news feeds were set up to deliver older stories, not just the usual 5 or 10 stories.

Providential Gardener does not necessarily agree or disagree with any of the views expressed in these blogs. Facts may or may not be accurate. So read thoughtfully and do your own research in reliable sources. Of course, in this day and age of the Wild-West internet where everyone can publish their opinions, it's a serious and important question what "reliable sources" might be....

If you want to subscribe to one of the news sources directly, go to the source and grab the rss feed. In the menu, there is a list of news sources.