"‘Our Future Is What We Are Fighting For’"
"They've come of age in a warming world. Now, students in nearly 100 countries and dozens of U.S. states are skipping school to fight climate change."
Source: Washington Post, 03/14/2019
International
"Climate: U.N. Calls For 'Urgent Action At An Unprecedented Scale'"
"The world must either move environmental protection to the top of its agenda now or suffer dire consequences, according to a United Nations report issued today."
Source: Greenwire, 03/14/2019
Doc on Rare Porpoise Wins Sundance Award
An environmental documentary that follows a risk-laden effort to save a rare and elusive porpoise won over audiences at the recent Sundance Film Festival. Correspondent JoAnn Valenti takes a look at the film, along with other documentaries that explore the role of journalists and journalism.
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Can States Divvy Up the Shrinking Colorado River Water Supply?
The vast Colorado River, recently in the news over a troubled drought deal, is at the heart of numerous environmental problems in the American West, where water is scarce and the legal complexities of water rights voluminous. The latest Issue Backgrounder offers an explainer on the story, which involves at least seven states, the federal government, Native American tribes, a hornet’s nest of irrigation districts and even Mexico.
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"The Inside Story Of The World's Most Dangerous Malware"
"On Aug. 4, 2017, at 7:43 p.m., two emergency shutdown systems sprang into action as darkness settled over the sprawling refinery along Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast."
Source: EnergyWire, 03/11/2019
Rain Is Triggering More Melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet — in Winter
"Pulses of melting linked to rainfall doubled in summer and tripled in winter, a new climate change study found. That's a problem for sea level rise."
"When a frozen snowflake falls on the Greenland Ice Sheet, it lands with a whisper and stays frozen, sometimes for months.
But raindrops splat down, making little craters and melting some of the adjacent snow crystals. Multiplied across thousands of square miles, they can trigger widespread melting and runoff, which can lead to more sea level rise.
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/11/2019
"The Hidden Costs Of Hydro: We Need To Reconsider World’s Dam Plans"
"As thousands of hydroelectric dams are planned worldwide, including 147 in the Amazon, a new study finds that the true socio-environmental and cultural costs of dams are rarely evaluated before construction. Were such factors counted into the lifetime cost of the dams, many would not be built."
Source: Mongabay, 03/06/2019
Perfecting Your Panorama Technique
In this how-to, veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick shares new techniques for capturing panoramas from the air — while on commercial plane flights — in order to illustrate human impacts on the landscape. Plus, Dimick details how and why he developed the new approach, in our latest EJ InSight column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment.
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Where Does All That Recycling Go?
Where do all those recyclables actually go? This week’s TipSheet dives into the trash to find a story worth telling — of troubling overseas dumping, problematic local incineration and a fraying patchwork of U.S. regulation. Plus, several dozen questions you might want to ask, a pair of pro tips and a dozen resources to track the story in your area.
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