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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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Umair Irfan, who covers climate change and the environment for Vox, about the flying shame movement and what can be done about carbon emissions from air travel.Origin: NPR Environment
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The sea level is rising more in some coastal places than in others. But why is that? It has to do with wind, currents, glaciers and even the last Ice Age.Origin: NPR Environment
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Power prices in Houston hit $9,000 per megawatt Tuesday afternoon as electricity supplies dwindle in the face of triple-digit temperatures.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Summer is hitting Greenland with record heat and extreme melt. By season's end, about 440 billion tons of ice will have melted or calved off its ice sheet.Origin: Los Angeles Times Environment
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New research provides evidence of the formation and abundance of abiotic methane -- methane formed by chemical reactions that don't involve organic matter -- on Earth and shows how the gases could have a similar origin on other planets and moons,...
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A growing number of Western homeowners are being dropped by their insurance companies, prompting warnings from officials and worries about what comes next.Origin: NY Times Energy/Environment
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A globally important ocean algae is mysteriously scarce in one of the most productive regions of the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new article. A massive dataset has revealed patterns in the regions where Atlantic coccolithophores live,...
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China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed — it can't keep up with the plastic being churned out. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)Origin: NPR Environment
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday dismissed the biofuel industry's argument that waivers granted to small oil refineries were destroying demand and that were damaging for the ethanol producers.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced on Tuesday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world's top copper producer.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research center INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Canadian environmental groups fear losing their tax-free charity status if they run paid climate change advocacy adverts ahead of the October national election, after a warning from the federal election watchdog.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Researchers are increasingly studying the effects of environmental insults on psychiatric and neurological conditions, motivated by emerging evidence from environmental events like the record-breaking smog that choked New Delhi two years ago. The...
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Environmental and labor groups complain the cleanup should have begun sooner, and they are concerned about health risks in Paris.(Image credit: Francois Mori/AP)Origin: NPR Environment
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Wild African elephants show markedly different movements and reactions to the same risks and resources, according to a new study.
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Researchers have identified ammonia as a source for engineering fuel cells that can provide a cheap and powerful source for fueling cars, trucks and buses with a reduced carbon footprint.
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When insects carry the pollen from one flower to another to pollinate them, the pollen must attach to and detach from different surfaces. Scientists have discovered that the mechanisms are far more complex than previously assumed. They differ...
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By analysing 138 experiments, researchers have mapped the potential of today's plants and trees to store extra carbon by the end of the century.
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Set-aside patches of high-quality forest on palm oil plantations may help protect species like orangutans, as well as various species of insects, birds and bats -- many of which are threatened with extinction in areas of Indonesia and Malaysia,...
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Vistra Energy, the Irving-based power generator and retailer, announced Tuesday morning it is buying Ambit Energy, a Dallas-based company that sells electricity through multi-level marketing channels, for $475 million in a move that will further...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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