Almost 40% Of World’s Glaciers Already Doomed Due To Climate – Study
"Almost 40% of glaciers in existence today are already doomed to melt due to climate-heating emissions from fossil fuels, a study has found."
Source: Guardian, 05/30/2025
Water & Oceans
Colorado River Is Running Low. Groundwater Looks Even Worse, Study Says.
"The dwindling flow of the Colorado River has alarmed the American West for years, but the water losses happening underground are even worse, according to a new study that uses satellite data to measure groundwater supplies across the Colorado River Basin."
Source: Washington Post, 05/29/2025
"EPA Grants Pollution Permit To Gulf Coast Fish Farm"
"A planned fish farm off Florida’s Gulf Coast has received an environmental permit allowing operators to discharge nutrient-laden water from what could be the first commercial-scale saltwater aquaculture operation in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: E&E News, 05/28/2025
In India, Indigenous Women Make ‘Dream Maps’ To Protect Lands From Warming
"At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, foraging and fishing marks the start of a new season."
Source: AP, 05/27/2025
In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People
On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.
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Mapping Out Local PFAS Risk, As Federal Rules Waver
As the Trump administration rolls back Biden-era rules limiting the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water, an updated data mapping tool helps pinpoint local angles on the PFAS story. The latest TipSheet outlines the basics on this class of widely used chemicals, their risks to humans and the challenges of regulating them, plus provides a half-dozen story ideas and questions to ask.
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"Trump Spared A New York Wind Project. What Did He Get In Return?"
"President Donald Trump’s sudden decision Monday to reverse course and lift a stop work order on Empire Wind 1 prompted widespread speculation in Albany and Washington that the president had extracted a commitment from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to allow a new gas pipeline to move forward."
Source: E&E News, 05/23/2025
NOAA Predicts Another Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season, But Not As Bad As 2024
"With warmer than normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting yet another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic. But they don’t think it will be as chaotic as 2024, the third-costliest season on record as it spawned killer storms Beryl, Helene and Milton."
Source: AP, 05/23/2025
"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"
"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025
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