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Six on Geography and Science: Harmful blue-green algae has taken over Mississippi beaches; The secret language of trees; Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map;Digging Deeper into Pompeii’s Past; Trump declares war on Green New Deal; As the World Heats Up, the Climate for News Is Changing, Too



"Authorities warned vacationers headed to the Mississippi coast to avoid getting in the water after 21 beaches along the state’s coastline were closed because of a harmful blue-green algal bloom.

Beachgoers can stay on the sand but should not come into contact with the water, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said in a statement.

The closures began June 22, and the latest two beaches closed over the weekend.

Blue-green algae, also known as Cyanobacteria, can produce toxins that could cause a host of human health problems, including “hay fever-like symptoms, skin rashes, respiratory and gastrointestinal distress” during short-term exposure, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The MDEQ statement said that if skin is exposed to the algae, it should be washed with soap and water. Additionally, the department warned individuals not to eat fish from the affected areas."

Harmful blue-green algae has taken over Mississippi beaches, forcing 21 to close










Trump declares war on Green New Deal in speech boasting about environmental record

"Donald Trump has declared war on the Green New Deal in a speech touting his administration's work on the environment, which has included a rollback of environmental protections and regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses that cause climate change.

"I will not stand for it," Mr Trump said during his speech in the White House's East Room, where he touted his administration's work to expand US natural gas production, to clean up ocean debris, and to rollback greenhouse gas regulations put forward by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Mr Trump said the deal, which was introduced earlier by congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, would "kill millions of jobs" and cost $100  trillion dollars — a figure that has been called into question, and appears to have come from a group funded by conservative groups with undisclosed donors.



The Green New Deal is a rough outline of goals set forward that its supporters say would radically remake the US energy economy, create green energy jobs, and help prop up poor and minority communities disproportionately impacted by dirty energy production.

"It’ll kill millions of jobs, it’ll crush the dreams of the poorest Americans and disproportionately harm minority communities," Mr Trump said."



As the World Heats Up, the Climate for News Is Changing, Too

"Other outlets held off, however, with 28 of the top 50 American newspapers by Sunday circulation publishing nothing on the report the day after it was issued, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America.



The Columbia Journalism Review bashed the nonchalant response to the United Nations report in an April 22 essay headlined “The media are complacent while the world burns.” Written by the longtime environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard and the magazine’s top editor, Kyle Pope, the piece, which was also published in The Nation and The Guardian, took issue with the “climate silence” of major news organizations and singled out the paucity of time given to the issue on television news, “where the brutal demands of ratings and money work against adequate coverage of the biggest story of our time.”



A neat illustration of the extremes in how climate change has been covered was evident on a recent edition of the nightly Fox News program “The Story With Martha MacCallum.” The segment began with a clip from John Oliver’s HBO show in which Bill Nye the Science Guy, a winner of multiple Emmys who specializes in explaining scientific concepts in simple terms, lit a globe on fire and ordered his viewers, in unprintable language, to grow up and face the crisis. After the clip played, Ms. MacCallum’s guest, the Fox News personality Jesse Watters, weighed in.



“The planet renews itself,” Mr. Watters said. “And I just am doubtful that man is causing the warming, because these experts have been saying this for years. The experts said there was going to be a Y2K meltdown. Didn’t happen. The experts said there was Russian collusion. Didn’t happen. The experts said there was going to be President Hillary Clinton. Didn’t happen.”

Mr. Watters’s view lines up with the roughly one-third of Americans who believe that climate change is mostly due to natural trends, according to a new study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. It is also in keeping with the opinion of Mr. Watters’s onetime dining partner President Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord and has called the idea that climate change results from human activity a “hoax” and “fake science.”








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