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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.

Climate change is already making Atlantic hurricanes more fierce, study finds
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 1 month ago
Sunday, February 10, 2019 - 00:30
Letter: Frank J. Schaberg Jr.: Trump address was hollow, heartless and immature
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Ken Morgester: Cicilline spouts the standard Democratic propaganda
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Frank DeLuca: Coming around to the virtues of 'The Brady Bunch'
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Larry Girouard: News pages stress anything negative about Trump
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Pierre Masse: Bill would have R.I. accept, legalize infanticide
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Dr. Daisy Bassen and Dr. Gerald Tarnoff: R.I. has steep barriers to mental-health care
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: John Petrella: Using people as props should disqualify presidents
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Victor Davis Hanson: Return of ancient prejudices
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Betty J. Cotter: Declining standards of dress
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Froma Harrop: Bringing in cheaper foreigners
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Erika Sanzi: Let's talk honestly about R.I. teacher absenteeism
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 23:00
Space gizmos bring science down to earth at R.I. robotics competition
Providence Journal Education
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 19:08
Hope High's hoops standout Marianella Galan finds opportunity in obstacles
Providence Journal Education
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 16:06
Alan Rosenberg: How our headlines get written
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 11:00
Letter: Bill Brooks: Immigrants of today are the same as in the past
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Jim Manchester: In no way was Trump's speech a success
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Eric Hall: I hope Venezuela will return to what it was
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Matt Paknis: How to change abusive organizations
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 23:00
At Home: For Design Army's power couple, a calm place to recharge
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 21:31

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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.