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 prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion on Tuesday disrupted London Concrete, the British capital's biggest supplier of ready-mixed concrete which supplies a major road tunnel project under the River Thames.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered ministers and regional heads to take anticipative steps to mitigate risks of crop failure and forest fire due to the El Nino dry weather phenomenon this year.Origin: Reuters Environment
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An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of Indonesia's Bali on Tuesday, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said, causing minor damage and prompting residents and visitors on the tourist island to briefly flee...Origin: Reuters Environment
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An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of Indonesia's Bali on Tuesday, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said, causing some residents and visitors on the tourist island to briefly rush out of buildings.Origin: Reuters Environment
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An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Tuesday, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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It’s Amazon Prime Day, but there’s a lot more to pay attention to than the deals. On the first day of the company’s annual summer sale, many Amazon employees protested the company’s labor conditions and environmental impact. They said the...Origin: Grist News Links
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Most big companies are failing to report the damage their operations are doing to forests despite committing to lighten their footprint under wider efforts to tackle climate change, according to a report published on Tuesday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Houston's Sanchez Energy is taking another step towards Chapter 11 bankruptcy after entering into a 30-day grace period on a critical debt payment.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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The duration of floods can be determined by river flow, precipitation and atmospheric blocking. Now an international team of researchers is offering a novel physically based Bayesian network model for inference and prediction of flood duration. The...
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Brazilian mining company Vale SA said on Monday it would pay 400 million reais ($106.52 million) to compensate workers affected by the deadly rupture of a tailings dam in January that killed at least 240 people.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A new study of cabbage crops in New York -- a state industry worth close to $60 million in 2017, according to the USDA -- reports for the first time that the effectiveness of releasing natural enemies to combat pests depends on the landscape...
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Wildfires and hurricanes are pushing chemicals into the environment, with health effects that scientists are just beginning to understand.Origin: NY Times Energy/Environment
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A federal judge on Monday slashed a damages award Bayer AG owed a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, to $25.27 million from $80.27 million, while rejecting the company's bid for a new trial.Origin: Reuters Environment
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The Trump administration plans to move more than a fifth of the Bureau of Land Management’s D.C. workforce out west, part of its broader push to shift power away from Washington and shrink the size of the federal government.
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U.S. oil companies on Monday began restoring some of the more than nearly 74% production shut at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of Hurricane Barry, the U.S. offshore drilling regulator said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Canada's Encana Corp. bought Houston-based Newfield Exploration earlier this year, and now Encana will sell some of its newly acquired acreage in Oklahoma.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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U.S. oil production surpassed 12 million barrels a day in April, further extending the nation's record output during the fracking boom, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Gasoline prices rose in Houston and across the country for the second week in a row as oil prices ticked up after last week's OPEC deal and tensions with Iran. Gas prices in Houston nudged up 1.5 cents per a gallon, averaging $2.42 per a gallon...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Oil tanker owners are avoiding sending their ships to the Middle East’s main refueling hub after a spate of attacks on vessels in the past two months ratcheted up tensions and highlighted the growing risks of operating in the region.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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