EJToday: Top Headlines

"With Turkey as Next COP Host, Climate Talks Again Go to Authoritarians" [9]

"United Nations climate officials announced Thursday that Turkey will host the 2026 Conference of Parties, COP31, making it the fourth time in five years that the climate talks are held in a country under authoritarian rule."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Europe [16]
Source: Newsweek [17], 11/25/2025
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"Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown" [18]

"Federal workers were guaranteed back pay once the government reopened. Some at the National Park Service are still waiting."

Environmental Politics [11]
Government [12]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 11/25/2025
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Tracking Down Orphaned, Possibly Leaking, Oil And Gas Wells In The Parks [23]

"An unknown number of abandoned oil and gas wells dot the National Park System, but the one at Cuyahoga Valley National Park revealed itself with a whistling plume of colorless, odorless, and potentially lethal, methane gas."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: National Parks Traveler [28], 11/25/2025
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PFAS And Other Contaminants Surged In French Broad River After Helene: Study [29]

"Fifteen days after Tropical Storm Helene sent debris, runoff and a cocktail of toxins — including raw sewage and pharmaceuticals — pouring into the French Broad River in the fall of 2024, Shea Tuberty set out to investigate the damage."

Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [32]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NC Health News [34], 11/25/2025
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"The Lives That Hurricane Melissa Upturned In Cuba" [35]

"The natural disaster has deepened the precarious situation in the eastern part of the island. Those who lost everything are unsure how to rebuild their lives amid the various crises affecting them"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [32]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
Central America & the Caribbean [36]
Source: EL PAÍS [37], 11/25/2025
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As NYC Builds Seawalls, This Queens Community Feels Left Behind [38]

"A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [25]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Source: Floodlight [40], 11/25/2025
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Texas ‘Ghost Deer’ Suspect Facility Tests Positive For Wasting Disease [41]

"Two captive whitetails tied to the Texas “ghost deer” investigation tested positive for chronic wasting disease at a Tom Green County facility owned by breeder Ken Schlaudt, according to records obtained by Public Domain."

Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Health [32]
Food [43]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [20]
Wildlife [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
Source: Public Domain [46], 11/25/2025
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"Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies" [47]

"Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor."

Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [25]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [49]
Source: NYTimes [50], 11/25/2025
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"We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation." [51]

"For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico."

Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Studies [52]
Journalism & Media [13]
Technology [53]
Wildlife [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mexico [54]
Source: NYTimes [55], 11/25/2025
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"A Bowhead Whale's DNA Offers Clues To Fight Cancer" [56]

"Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale."

Biodiversity [42]
Fish & Fisheries [57]
Health [58]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [20]
Science [59]
Water & Oceans [33]
Wildlife [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [15]
Source: NPR [60], 11/25/2025
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"Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End" [61]

"Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Economy & Business [62]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [32]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [11]
Pollution [27]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [64], 11/24/2025
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"How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders" [65]

"Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [62]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [32]
Environmental Justice [63]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [14]
International [15]
Africa [66]
Asia [67]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 11/24/2025
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"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling" [69]

"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."

"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.

The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.
Air [70]
Biodiversity [42]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [71], 11/24/2025
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"Bird Flu Patient Dies, Marking Second U.S. Fatality In 2025" [72]

"A Washington resident who was the first human case of bird flu in the U.S. since February died on Friday, state health officials said. The person was an older adult with underlying conditions and had been hospitalized since early November with a strain that was previously reported in animals but never before in humans."

Agriculture [73]
Biodiversity [42]
Environmental Health [32]
Health [58]
Science [59]
Wildlife [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [15]
Source: Washington Post [74], 11/24/2025
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"3 Massive Changes You'll See As The Climate Careens Toward Tipping Points" [75]

"For the past eight years, one of the primary objectives of the annual negotiations has been to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to the temperatures in the late 1800s. ... But that goal is no longer plausible, scientists say. Humanity has not cut planet-warming pollution quickly enough, and the planet will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, likely in the next decade, according to a recent United Nations report."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [32]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NPR [76], 11/24/2025
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