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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.

Federal Funding Woes Stunt Rhode Island Climate Research
ecoRI Renewable Energy
6 days 10 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 09:57
Federal Funding Woes Stunt Rhode Island Climate Research
ecoRI Food and Farming News
6 days 10 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 09:57
Slice of Local Good News Stomped Out by Humanity’s Oversized Footprint
ecoRI Marine News
6 days 12 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 08:22
Slice of Local Good News Stomped Out by Humanity’s Oversized Footprint
ecoRI Climate Change News
6 days 12 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 08:22
Slice of Local Good News Stomped Out by Humanity’s Oversized Footprint
ecoRI Renewable Energy
6 days 12 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 08:22
Slice of Local Good News Stomped Out by Humanity’s Oversized Footprint
ecoRI Food and Farming News
6 days 12 hours ago
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 08:22
Coopers Hawk Chows Down
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 week 4 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 16:39
Found in a small pond
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 week 4 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 16:38
Busy Bike Month at Bike Newport!
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
1 week 8 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 12:05
Bike Month Launch on the Bike Path!
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
1 week 8 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 12:03
An Earth Day Message from Acadia Center
Acadia Center News Items
1 week 10 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 10:05
The Best of Pope Francis: Thirteen important eco-comments by the Holy Father
Catholic Ecology
1 week 11 hours ago
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 09:18
2025 Spring Gear Guide for Rhode Island Fishermen
Fish Wrap Writer
1 week 1 day ago
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 19:19
Coyote Looks Pregnant
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 week 1 day ago
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 18:30
Large Predatory Water Birds
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 week 1 day ago
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 18:08
The Truth About Plastic
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
1 week 1 day ago
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 08:42
On the Passing of Pope Francis: Do Not Be Afraid.
Catholic Ecology
1 week 2 days ago
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 20:29
Bird Watching with Side of Humor Served Every Other Sunday Morning
ecoRI Climate Change News
1 week 2 days ago
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:19
Bird Watching with Side of Humor Served Every Other Sunday Morning
ecoRI Renewable Energy
1 week 2 days ago
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:19
Bird Watching with Side of Humor Served Every Other Sunday Morning
ecoRI Food and Farming News
1 week 2 days ago
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:19

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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.