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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.

Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 16:20
Letters: On dealing with COVID-19; gun control helps criminals; Sanders and socialism
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 16:17
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Catholic Ecology
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 10:25
Saltwater license sales are strong and so are tackle store conversations
Fish Wrap Writer
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 18:01
DEM Awards $569,500 in Grants to Improve Water Quality and Reduce Flooding
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 11:00
Bristol News: March 1, 1897
Blithewold Garden Blog
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 10:20
DEM Reminds Rhode Islanders that Fishing and Hunting Licenses, Boat Registrations Can Be Obtained Online
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 10:15
Alan Rosenberg: We'll be out of the office, but covering the news
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 10:03
Bike Newport Night Postponed
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 21:43
The Dirt – March 13, 2020: Coronavirus Update, Lawn resources, Carbon Gardening, Continuing Ed
URI Master Gardener Program
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 20:23
Bike Newport Night Postponed
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 17:43
Anthony M. Rodriguez: My Turn: Support good Providence teachers, get rid of deadbeats
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 17:38
Dr. Luke Messac: My Turn: We need Medicare for All now
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 17:34
RWPZoo Education Instructor
RI Environmental Education Assn News
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 13:50
Compass School Summertime Farm Internship
RI Environmental Education Assn News
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 13:46
Rose Island Lighthouse and Fort Hamilton Trust
RI Environmental Education Assn News
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 13:12
Rose Island Lighthouse Environmental Educator
RI Environmental Education Assn News
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 13:00
Infante-Green orders R.I. school districts to submit remote instruction plans within a week
Providence Journal Education
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 12:30
2020 Preliminary Osprey Nest Assignments
RI Osprey Monitoring
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 12:12
At Brown, support for shift to online classes, but sadness over loss of ’personal connections’
Providence Journal Education
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 11:51

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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.