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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.

Lecture – Public Health v. Big Chemicals: A Case of Social Justice
URI Coastal Institute News
5 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:31
A Firsthand Account of the Ravages of Lead Poisoning
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:15
My Turn: Friedrich St. Florian: Providence can learn from Rome
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 00:00
URI gets federal grant to promote health benefits of maple syrup
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 16:03
Tiverton High closes early due to dust concerns
Providence Journal Education
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 13:01
A home landscape transformed into a coastal wildlife refuge habitat
RI Wild Plant Society News
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 12:43
Opinion: Lessons learned from vaquita conservation efforts
Ocean Project
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 11:23
Opinion: Lessons learned from vaquita conservation efforts
Ocean Project
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 11:23
Award-winning carver brings wooden birds to life
Narwhal's Left Tooth
5 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 09:23
Campaign 2018: Environment is the point of Question 3, by land and by sea
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 23:18
Electric buses: Sneak peek at cleaner fleet in R.I.
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 21:59
Roger Williams University professor leads effort to fight academic persecution
Providence Journal Education
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 15:20
Raimondo, Congressional Delegation Unveil RIPTA's First Electric Buses
RI Governor Press Releases
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 14:45
Painting or Renovating? Keep Your Family Safe from the Hazards of Lead
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 14:01
Burrillville High dismisses early due to heating problems
Providence Journal Education
5 years 5 months ago
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 12:22
Questions 2: $70M in campus upgrades sought for URI, RIC
Providence Journal Education
5 years 5 months ago
Sunday, October 21, 2018 - 21:16
Clean Up on Crescent Beach
15 Minute Field Trips
5 years 5 months ago
Sunday, October 21, 2018 - 07:14
Corgis invade Napatree Point!
Digging Rhode Island
5 years 5 months ago
Saturday, October 20, 2018 - 12:10
Rhode Island at crossroads of migration express
Narwhal's Left Tooth
5 years 5 months ago
Saturday, October 20, 2018 - 09:32
Gardening: Time's right to plant bulbs for spring flowers
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 5 months ago
Friday, October 19, 2018 - 22:30

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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.