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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.

RIDOH Recommends Closing Surfer's End of Sachuest Beach; Re-Opening Watchaug Pond Beaches
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 16:45
Talking about climate change helps fight climate change
Energy Consumers Bulletin
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 16:05
Mingling with moths late into the night
Narwhal's Left Tooth
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 15:45
New England, and the Climate Crisis, Is Heating Up
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 15:14
DEM Announces Sewage Overflow In Newport Harbor; Shellfishing Already Is Prohibited In This Area
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 15:00
Charter school supporters object to Elorza's proposal to close school
Providence Journal Education
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 14:13
Arthur I. Cyr: Apocalypse now, and then, and yet again
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 12:23
Updated Nest Activity Table
RI Osprey Monitoring
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 11:55
Earth Care Farm LLC
RI Environmental Education Assn News
4 years 7 months ago
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 09:52
A Walk through the Seasons with Rhode Island Wild Plants
RI Wild Plant Society News
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 22:10
My Turn: Michael Costa: Judge lived his life with grace
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 17:57
Letter: Buff Chace: 'Hamilton' run enlivened downtown for weeks
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 17:54
Letter: Richard Glover: A very low standard for female empowerment
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 17:54
Letter: Karolye Cunha: A poor solution to traffic jams on 195 West
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 17:54
Introducing: Laurence C. Smith
Brown University Environmental Studies
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 12:09
Pet Deaths Underscore Need for Urgent Action on Toxic Algae
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 09:27
June 2019 Amtrak Financial Report
RI Association of Railroad Passengers News
4 years 7 months ago
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 08:57
Tim Terranova finds big bass on the Bonita II
Fish Wrap Writer
4 years 7 months ago
Sunday, August 18, 2019 - 20:03
It's Just Art. Curating Botanic Harmony and Some Common Sense Gardening
Growing with Plants
4 years 7 months ago
Sunday, August 18, 2019 - 17:04
My Turn: Julie A. Casimiro: Give DCYF director freedom to do the job
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 7 months ago
Sunday, August 18, 2019 - 16:50

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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.