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A firefighter working on extinguishing the Lilac Fire a fast moving wildfire is seen in Bonsall
Daily Video December 08 2017

Study guide: Impact of Southern California wildfires
Use this NewsHour lesson plan to discuss the significance of the Southern California wildfires with your students.
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Lesson Plan November 28 2017

Lesson plan: Climate change and a particularly fierce hurricane season
In this NewsHour lesson plan, students study the storms which ravaged the southeastern region of the U.S. and the Caribbean during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season and look at the role climate change plays in extreme weather events.
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Daily Video September 18 2017

How-to guide for sheltering pets during extreme weather events
Thousands of evacuees sought refuge in Houston's convention center during Hurricane Harvey, but their pets were not allowed in with them. New emergency service groups and animal shelters in Houston are taking a step to include animals and pets in disaster planning.
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Lesson Plan September 16 2017

Student Reporting Labs STEM Lesson Plan: Protecting green space through hands-on learning
In this PBS NewsHour lesson, students take a hands-on approach to nature by exploring green spaces in their community.
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Daily Video September 12 2017

Hurricane Irma: Determining the road to recovery and the role of climate change
Seven million Floridians remain without power along with 1.5 million people in Georgia and millions more in the Caribbean after Hurricane Irma struck those areas over the last week.
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Lesson Plan August 08 2017

Lesson plan: How renewable energy inventions protect the environment

Explore inventions that harness the power of water to make electricity
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Daily Video August 08 2017

Invasive parakeets threaten Hawaii's ecosystem
Rose-ringed parakeets have multiplied by the thousands on the Hawaiian island of Kauai since the 1960s, when a few parakeets kept as pets escaped. The birds have since caused problems by damaging native plants and farm crops.
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Daily Video July 19 2017

A trillion-ton iceberg the size of Delaware broke off the Antarctic Peninsula
An enormous iceberg more than 2000 sq. miles in diameter recently detached from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and floated into the Weddell Sea, located south of the tip of South America.
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Daily Video June 15 2017

New carbon capture technology may change the future of energy
About 30 percent of our electricity in the United States is produced through coal, but coal-fired power plants produce a large proportion of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. As a result, the W.A. Parish power plant in Texas is developing technology called “carbon capture.”
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Daily Video June 06 2017

White House withdraws from Paris climate agreement amid controversy
President Trump announced on June 1 that the United States will begin the four-year process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, a greenhouse gas mitigation agreement among 196 countries.
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