"EPA Moves To Erase Trump-Era WOTUS Rule"
"The Biden administration today [Thursday] moved to formally scrap President Trump’s signature Clean Water Act rule off the books."
Source: E&E News, 11/19/2021
Planning & Growth
Eating (and Reporting) My Way Through the Foods of the Rainforest
Conserving crop diversity is a key to maintaining global food security, especially in the face of climate change. To understand those efforts, Portland, Ore.-based freelancer Virginia Gewin traveled to South America, supported by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists, to find out how Peruvian chefs and Amazon dwellers hope to save the rainforest by sharing native and wild foods.
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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems
After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.
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"This U.S. City Just Voted To Decarbonize Every Single Building"
"Late Wednesday night, the city of Ithaca, N.Y., voted to electrify and decarbonize its buildings. It’s the first such initiative of its kind in the country."
Source: Washington Post, 11/04/2021
Laws Offer Little Protection to Expected 200 Million Climate Refugees
"Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/03/2021
How ‘The Swamp Peddlers’ Scammed Their Way to Florida’s Eco-Destruction
How did Florida go from an uncrowded home of pine forests, wetlands and ranches to today’s sprawling subdivisions spawning environmental disaster? A new volume gains praise from BookShelf reviewer Nano Riley for its well-researched look at the unscrupulous developers who in a matter of decades carved the state’s ecosystems into lots for sale, trading its pristine beauty for an easy buck.
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"Urban Heat Is Getting More Dangerous"
"Exposure to extreme heat in cities has tripled since the 1980s, putting more people in harm's way."
Source: Earther, 10/05/2021
Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade
It sometimes feels like journalists lurch from one catastrophe (or hurricane, flood, wildfire, heat wave) to the next. But that can mean missing the bigger story: Disasters, increasingly linked to climate extremes, are often interlocking events, in which one system failure causes the next and the next. The latest Backgrounder explores three case studies, and how news media can focus attention on steps toward resilience.
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