EJToday: Top Headlines

"Dynamite Use Sends Shockwaves Through Fishing Industries" [9]

"Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lanka and around the world it’s thriving as a quick and easy route to a lucrative haul".

Fish & Fisheries [10]
Food [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 09/08/2023
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"As Fall Migration Arrives, Apps That ID Birds By Sound Have Taken Off" [17]

"I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn’t as alone as I’d thought. Thanks to the app I’d just downloaded on my phone — the popular and free Merlin Bird ID — I learned just from listening that I was surrounded by more than a dozen species of birds."

Biodiversity [18]
Consumer [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Technology [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: AP [24], 09/08/2023
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"Biden To Cancel ANWR Leases, Expand Arctic Drilling Protections" [25]

"Nearly three years after the Trump administration sold the first-ever oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the White House Wednesday canceled those leases in a huge blow to pro-oil Alaskans."

Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Alaska and Hawaii [29]
Source: E&E News [30], 09/07/2023
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"African Leaders Call For New Global Taxes To Fund Climate Change Action" [31]

"African leaders on Wednesday proposed new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help fund climate change action in a declaration that will form the basis of their negotiating position at November's COP28 summit."

Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [34]
Public [14]
International [15]
Africa [35]
Source: Reuters [36], 09/07/2023
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Why Extreme Heat Is So Dangerous For Those With Schizophrenia [37]

"On July 12, 2022, Stephan Goodwin left his home with a drawstring bag and a gallon of water, fleeing the voices in his head. He never came back."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Justice [33]
People & Population [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [15]
Source: Washington Post [39], 09/07/2023
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"States Withhold Cooling Aid For The Poor As Heat Gets Deadlier" [40]

"More than 30 million low-income households that are eligible for federal funding to defray the cost of air conditioning have not received any money from a government program that was created to protect vulnerable people from dangerous temperatures, an E&E News analysis shows."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Justice [33]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [41], 09/07/2023
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This Summer Broke World Record For The Highest Temperature Ever Measured [42]

"Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization."

Climate Change [26]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: AP [43], 09/07/2023
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"A Colorado City Has Been Battling for Decades to Use Its Own Water" [44]

"Lawsuits, protests and fierce disputes over who controls water in the parched American West have held up a crucial pipeline."

Environmental Politics [28]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [46]
Source: NYTimes [47], 09/07/2023
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61 Indicted In Georgia On RICO Charges Connected To ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement [48]

"ATLANTA — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”

In the sweeping indictment released Tuesday, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr alleged the defendants are “militant anarchists” who supported a violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests.
Activism [49]
Environmental Justice [33]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: AP [52], 09/07/2023
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"Invasive Species Costing World Billions A Year, UN Warns" [53]

"From rats to fire ants, invasive creatures are threatening local ecosystems. Influenced by global trade and climate change, they are pushing native species to the brink."

Biodiversity [18]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: DW [54], 09/07/2023
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Alaskan Fishers Fear Bleak Season As Crab Numbers Dwindle In Warming Waters [55]

"Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father’s crab boat, the Silver Spray, before joining his two brothers in 2020 to buy a half-interest plus access rights for a snow crab fishery that’s typically the largest and richest in the Bering Sea. Then in 2021, disaster: an annual survey found crabs crashing to an all-time low."

Climate Change [26]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Alaska and Hawaii [29]
Source: AP [56], 09/07/2023
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"America’s Fire Spotters Aren’t Ready to Fade Away Just Yet [57]

"Officials say the future of wildfire detection is cameras. But in northwest Montana, solitary humans on mountaintops still do more than machines alone can offer."

Forests [58]
Technology [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: NYTimes [59], 09/07/2023
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"Congress Returns To Overflowing Fall Agenda" [60]

"The Senate returns from summer recess Tuesday facing an impasse on federal spending that could result in a government shutdown, with billions of dollars needed for disaster relief on the line."

Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [61], 09/06/2023
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"Hottest September Since 1938 Awaits G-20 Leaders in Delhi" [62]

"Global leaders including US President Joe Biden are set to be greeted by stifling heat when they meet in New Delhi this week for the Group of 20 Summit, where climate change is set to be among key issues on the agenda."

Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [28]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Bloomberg Green [63], 09/06/2023
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"Muddied Tropical Rivers Reveal Magnitude Of Global Gold Mining Boom" [64]

"A new study reveals that 59,000 kilometers, or nearly 37,000 miles, of tropical rivers have been damaged by mining, based on 7 million measurements taken from satellite images spanning four decades."

Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [65]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Mongabay [66], 09/06/2023
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