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Week of August 13, 2012

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Aug. 15^th - - Submissions due by 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, August 15^th to the Marian Koshland Science Museum. 1.  Take a photo of a place that shows an example of a way to lower greenhouse gases, a potential impact of global climate change, or a way to adapt to the impacts of climate change. 2. Write a description of what you photo shows and include location information*. 3. Upload it to Flickr (www.flickr.com) and make it public.  Please include the lat/long coordinates (how to I get this information?) in your brief description of the photo. 4. Fill out the form at the link below to alert us of your submission. You will be asked for your name and e-mail address, lat/long coordinates** for the location of the photo and a brief description. (If you haven't already, you must register with the Koshland website, using the simple form on the left column of this page in order to enter.) 5. An example entry can be found here: [Â鶹ÊÓƵ campuses are encouraged to submit photos]

(University System of Maryland, Newsroom, 8/10/12)

State of Maryland News

August 13^th - 16^th - - Notice of Evening Hearings for Public Comment: Evening hearings for the purpose of receiving public comment on the performance of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company in responding to the major outages caused by the June 29, 2012 Derecho Storm have been scheduled by the Maryland Public Service.

(By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun - Maryland News, 8/10/12)

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(By Carlota Cortes, Inter Press Service as reported by CommonDreams.org, 8/13/12)

(The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 8/13/12)

(Reuters as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 8/13/12)

(By James Murray, The [UK] Guardian - Guardian Environment Network/Business Green, 8/13/12)

(By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post - Business, 8/12/12)

(By Robin McKie, The [UK] Guardian, 8/11/12)

(NASA Earth Observatory - Image of the Day, 8/9/12)

(By Robyn Curnow and Teo Kermeliotis, CNN, 8/8/12)

(By Hasan Dudar and Jeff Green, Bloomberg.com, 8/7/12)

(By Amanda Holpuch, The [UK] Guardian, 8/7/12)