"How Megafires Are Remaking the World"
"In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."
Source: NYTimes, 10/16/2023
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"Canada's Top Court Backs Alberta Challenge To Trudeau Environment Law"
"Canada's Supreme Court dealt a blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on Friday by ruling that a federal law assessing how major projects such as coal mines and oil sands plants impact the environment is largely unconstitutional."
Source: Reuters, 10/16/2023
Giant Open-Pit Mine Near Two National Parks Dealt A Blow By Biden DOI
"A road critical to operating a proposed open-pit mine in a remote part of Alaska hit a new hurdle Friday when the Biden administration issued a finding that the road could threaten Alaska Native communities and their lifestyle more than previously estimated."
Source: Washington Post, 10/16/2023
Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ Report Warns Of Extinctions
"The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi” report assesses our current knowledge of plants and fungal diversity, the threats they face and how to protect them. The report warns that many plant and fungal species, 45% of documented flowering plants and half of all analyzed fungi risk extinction (though less than 0.4% of identified fungi have been assessed for extinction to date)."
Source: Mongabay, 10/12/2023
Supreme Court Passes On Red State Challenge To Biden ‘Social Cost Of Carbon’
"The Supreme Court will not take up a lawsuit led by the state of Missouri that sought to block the Biden administration’s “social cost of carbon” measure."
Source: The Hill, 10/12/2023
Fungal Networks Could Help Make The Planet More Resilient To Climate Change
"A team of scientists loaded into a gray minivan in this capital city earlier this year and drove for hundreds of miles west through the Kazakh steppe — a vast region marked by endless open plains of grass, abandoned farms and flower-filled meadows."
Source: Washington Post, 10/11/2023
CDC Data Offer Multiplicity of Starting Points for Environmental Health Stories
For reporters seeking stories that connect environmental and health issues, there may be no better — or more wide-ranging — place to start than with high-quality data from the Centers for Disease Control’s wide range of datasets. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox looks into where the CDC’s data originates from and how that affects its usefulness, and offers up a helpful overview of CDC data surveys.
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Funding To Replace Lead Pipes Is Just the Start of the Story
Billions of dollars in federal funding to get rid of lead pipes is only the beginning — now the pipes have to be located, removed and replaced. And the latest TipSheet says that’s a story that’s found in many U.S. communities, so is ripe for local reporting. Here’s the backstory and why it matters, along with more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.
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COP28 Will Be Earth-Shaping News in 2024 and Beyond
When nations converge this fall for the latest round of annual talks on harnessing climate change, they meet at a crucial juncture. Will the increasingly dramatic impacts of global warming, and the prospects of worse, focus their attention enough to bring about progress? In this sweeping analysis, Backgrounder assesses the varied pressures at play at the coming COP28, along with tips for covering it, from up close or afar.
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