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New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show World Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action [9]

"A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Science [14]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 10/29/2024
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"How Are the World’s Trees Doing? A New Assessment Has Answers." [18]

"More than a third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of trees by the world’s leading scientific authority on the status of species."

Biodiversity [19]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: NYTimes [22], 10/29/2024
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"New Survey Puts Human Face On Pollution Caused By U.S. Wood Pellet Mills" [23]

"A new groundbreaking survey highlights the human toll from pollution and other quality of life impacts connected to those living near the forest biomass industry’s wood pellet mills in the U.S Southeast. Door-to-door interviews were conducted by a coalition of NGOs, with 312 households surveyed in five mostly poor, rural and minority communities located near pellet mills"

Chemicals [24]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [20]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Source: Mongabay [30], 10/29/2024
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Dust From Lithium-Rich Salton Sea Worsening Child Respiratory Issues: Study [31]

"Wind-strewn dust from California’s lithium-rich, shrinking Salton Sea may be triggering respiratory issues in children who live nearby, a new study has found."

Air [32]
Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [33]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [27]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [36]
Source: The Hill [37], 10/29/2024
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Toxic Contamination Of S. Calif. Coast Lives On Decades Later: Study [38]

"Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in the fish that reside in these habitats, a new study has found."

Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [33]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [21]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
California [36]
Source: The Hill [41], 10/29/2024
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Albania Turns Away Ship Suspected Of Carrying Toxic Waste [42]

"Albania prevented Monday a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities."

Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [34]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
Europe [44]
Source: AP [45], 10/29/2024
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Maine Asks Hunters Not To Eat Deer, Turkey In Some Areas Because Of PFAS [46]

"Maine’s traditional fall hunting seasons are in full swing, but hunters are being asked to avoid eating their game in parts of the state because of the possibility of harmful chemicals in animal meat."

Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [24]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [33]
Food [48]
Wildlife [49]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: AP [51], 10/29/2024
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Artificial Reefs Off NYC Beach Help Sea Creatures -- And Might Save Lives [52]

"Almost nothing stood in the way of the pounding waves that crashed into seaside homes in Staten Island’s Tottenville neighborhood when Superstorm Sandy struck the city 12 years ago.... But after years of work, a system of artificial reefs largely completed this summer could help soften the blow of future hurricanes."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [53]
Infrastructure [54]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: AP [55], 10/29/2024
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"12 Books To Read About Climate Action Ahead Of The Election" [56]

"For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral politics."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [13]
Journalism & Media [57]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
International [16]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [58], 10/29/2024
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"Can 70 Moms Save a Species?" [59]

"There are only about 370 North Atlantic right whales left. Of those, an alarmingly small number are mothers. Squilla is one of them."

Biodiversity [19]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: NYTimes [60], 10/29/2024
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Biden Apologizes For The ‘Sin’ Of A 150-Year Indian Boarding School Policy [61]

"President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country."

Disasters [53]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [27]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [62]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: AP [63], 10/28/2024
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Jailed Reporters, Silenced Networks: What Trump Says He'd Do To The Media [64]

"On the campaign trail and in interviews, Trump has suggested that if he regains the White House, he will exact vengeance on news outlets that anger him. More specifically, Trump has pledged to toss reporters in jail and strip major television networks of their broadcast licenses as retribution for coverage he didn't like."

Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [57]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: NPR [65], 10/28/2024
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"A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change" [66]

"Kamala Harris calls global warming an “existential threat.” Donald Trump dismisses it as a “scam.”"

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [34]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [28]
International [16]
Source: NYTimes [67], 10/28/2024
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"Indonesian Forests Pay The Price For Growing Global Biomass Energy Demand [68]

"Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass material seen as critical to many countries’ transitions to cleaner forms of energy."

Biodiversity [19]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [49]
Public [15]
Asia [69]
Source: AP [70], 10/28/2024
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Water Firms In England ‘Passed’ Pollution Tests That Were Never Carried Out [71]

"Water firms “passed” thousands of pollution tests under a self-monitoring regime … yet the tests were never even conducted, the Observer can reveal. The water firms’ own operational data for sewage plants across the country reveals how outflows of effluent had stopped – in some cases for just a few hours – on days that samples were supposed to be taken."

Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [54]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [34]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
Europe [44]
Source: Guardian [72], 10/28/2024
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