River of News
The River of News is an aggregation of news feeds about environment-related topics from a wide variety of sources. While SEJ selects the individual feeds, SEJ does not select the stories that the feeds provide. SEJ neither endorses nor bears responsibility for their content. They are provided as a service to SEJ members who many want to glean story ideas from them. SEJ urges all users to check the accuracy of assertions made in these feeds.
The feeds in the River of News span many content types — from professional news services and newspaper blogs to government agency press releases and public relations or activist group releases. Some are grouped topically.
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The death toll from last month's volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island rose to 21 after another person died in hospital from injuries, police confirmed on Thursday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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India's government has stepped up the purchase of air purifiers over the last two years, taking the number of devices in ministries to protect against deteriorating air quality to nearly 300, government data seen by Reuters showed.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Reliance Industries, India's largest petchem player, is launching a project to use plastics in road construction, amid growing concerns over pollution in the country of 1.3 billion whose major cities are often plagued with smog and litter.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A major earthquake struck south of Cuba on Tuesday, sending shockwaves as far as Miami and sparking panic in the Cayman Islands where it ripped open sinkholes, but did not do serious damage to people or property, initial reports said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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The former head of Houston's Black Elk Energy reached a deal to eventually dismiss charges that he helped run a Ponzi scheme fraud with the company's New York hedge fund owners.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the western Caribbean on Tuesday, triggering evacuations as buildings shook across the Cayman Islands, in Jamaica, and in downtown Miami, but with no initial reports of significant damage.Origin: Reuters Environment
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The FDA fired off a warning letter to Purell's parent company, Gojo Industries, over their marketing claims that the hand sanitizer could kill viruses such as the flu and Ebola.Origin: Yahoo! -- Climate News
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(Bloomberg) -- Oil rebounded from its lowest level since mid-October as investors weighed the extent to which China’s coronavirus would hurt fuel demand. Futures recovered 0.6% in New York on Tuesday after losing more than 9% across five straight...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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The death toll from last week's heavy rains in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has risen to 52 people, with 65 people reported injured and two more missing, the state civil defense agency said on Tuesday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Honestly, everything she eats throughout the day is totally doable.Origin: Yahoo! -- Climate News
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A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the sea south of Cuba on Tuesday, triggering warnings of "hazardous" tsunami waves up to a meter (3 feet) high for Cuba, Jamaica, and west to Mexico and Central America, but there were no initial reports...Origin: Reuters Environment
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The threat of tsunami waves triggered by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea has passed, the International Tsunami Information Center said on Tuesday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A warning for tsunami waves of up to 1 meter (3 feet) was issued on Tuesday for the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands following a powerful quake of magnitude 7.7 in the Caribbean Sea, the International Tsunami...Origin: Reuters Environment
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ABC Blog Series: New Technology to Retrofit America With more than 90% of our lives spent indoors, buildings have a big impact on the quality of our lives.Origin: Energy Dept. Releases
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 has struck 117 kilometers northwest of the coastal town of Lucea in Jamaica, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Tuesday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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(Bloomberg) -- iPod pioneer Tony Fadell is backing a battery company that says it’s found a way to store more energy using silicon scrap waste. Fadell’s investment firm, Future Shape, is among the contributors to Advano’s $18.5 million Series A...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost as if the last decade never happened for Exxon Mobil Corp. shares. Once the gold-standard of Big Oil, the stock closed Monday at its lowest since October 2010, amid a slump in oil prices due to concerns about weak demand...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Authorities have arrested 11 suspects they say ran a multi-state recycling fraud operation that smuggled empty cans and bottles into California.Origin: Los Angeles Times Environment
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Canada has the power to delay a decision on whether to approve a new Teck Resources Ltd oil sands project, a key cabinet minister said on Tuesday, a sign Ottawa could push back what will be a contentious decision.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Lena Dunham is opening up about jeopardizing her health in her 20s and relying on pills for physical and emotional pain.Origin: Yahoo! -- Climate News
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