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"How 10,000 Years Of Plagues Left Their Mark On Our DNA" [9]

"Agnolo di Tura was a sometime shoemaker and tax collector with a yen for keeping a journal. He was also his family’s sole survivor when the Black Death tore through Siena, Italy, in 1348. He buried his wife and five children with his own hands, he wrote in his journal. He was somehow spared."

Biodiversity [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 08/17/2023
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"Books For Our New, Climate-Changed Summers" [16]

"After the daunting heatwaves and storms of this summer, our cheery visions of the season seem at odds with our climate-changed reality."

Climate Change [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [20], 08/17/2023
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"Canada's Northwest Territories Declares Emergency Due To Wildfires" [21]

"The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a risk to territorial capital Yellowknife."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [11]
Forests [22]
Public [13]
Canada [23]
Source: Reuters [24], 08/16/2023
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90% Of England’s Most Precious Rivers Polluteded By Raw Sewage And Farming [25]

"More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals."

Agriculture [26]
Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
Europe [30]
Source: Guardian [31], 08/16/2023
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"Despite Climate Goals, California Will Let Three Gas Plants Keep Running" [32]

"Sometimes, breaking news is spectacularly unsurprising — but still hugely consequential. That was the case Tuesday, when California officials finalized a decision they’d been telegraphing for months, voting to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants along the state’s southern coast through 2026, instead of closing them later this year.

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
California [34]
Source: LA Times [35], 08/16/2023
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"Interior Announces Potential Offshore Wind Areas For Oregon" [36]

"The Biden administration advanced the first potential floating offshore wind auctions off the Oregon coast Tuesday by designating where sales might be located."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [39]
Source: E&E News [40], 08/16/2023
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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves [41]

"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"

Air [42]
Chemicals [43]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [44]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
Source: Public Health Watch [46], 08/16/2023
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"Reviving the Redwoods" [47]

"A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws."

Forests [22]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [13]
California [34]
Source: NYTimes [48], 08/16/2023
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Minnesota Tribal School Fights To Eliminate PFAS in Drinking Water [49]

"As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind."

Chemicals [43]
Consumer [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [44]
Infrastructure [37]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [51]
Source: Grist [52], 08/16/2023
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"Alarm At Exodus Of Climate Voices On Twitter After Musk Takeover" [53]

"Half of regular green tweeters abandoned platform after its sale and cuts to moderation, analysis finds".

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [54]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [14]
Source: Guardian [55], 08/16/2023
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"What's to Be Done About the Wild Horse Herds of the American West?" [56]

"They're tearing up rangeland and riparian areas—and also our ideas about wildness".

Agriculture [26]
Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [54]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [57]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Source: Sierra [59], 08/16/2023
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Researchers Identify A New Pack Of Endangered Gray Wolves In California [60]

"A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California’s Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday."

Biodiversity [10]
Wildlife [57]
Public [13]
California [34]
Source: AP [61], 08/16/2023
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Young Activists Win First-Of-Its-Kind Climate Change Trial In Montana [62]

"Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [44]
Laws & Regulations [38]
People & Population [63]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Source: AP [64], 08/15/2023
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Mishmash Of How US Heat Deaths Are Counted Complicates Safety Efforts [65]

"Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner’s yard and was taken to a hospital, where he died."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [66], 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears" [67]

"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."

Chemicals [43]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [44]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [68]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 08/15/2023
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