EJToday: Top Headlines

"Cop29 Host Azerbaijan To Hike Gas Output By A Third Over Next Decade" [9]

"Azerbaijan, which is hosting this year’s UN climate talks, plans to increase its fossil fuel production by a third over the next decade, according to an analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Guardian [15], 01/09/2024
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Where Has All The Honey Gone? Scientists Explain Declining Yields [16]

"It’s a question that has bedeviled beekeepers across the US in recent years: where has all the honey gone? Scientists now say they have some answers as to why yields of honey have declined, pointing to environmental degradation that is affecting all sorts of bees, and insects more generally."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [20]
Food [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [25], 01/09/2024
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"Mass Layoffs At Pioneering Nuclear Startup" [26]

"NuScale is the second major U.S. reactor company to cut jobs in recent months."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: HuffPost [28], 01/09/2024
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"How Terrestrial Turds Lead to Marine Maladies" [29]

"Diseases from land animals are killing marine mammals at an alarming rate. Can we stem the flow of feces?"

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Health [30]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Hakai [32], 01/09/2024
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"Trump Leans Into Climate Denialism" [33]

"The former president is doing little to temper his stance on climate change as he makes a third run for the White House, say experts and supporters."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [35], 01/09/2024
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Liter Bottle of Water Contains Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles [36]

"The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [30]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [38], 01/09/2024
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"Humpbacks Rebound in 20th-Century Whaling Hotspot" [39]

"In summer, South Georgia island’s Cumberland Bay now sees whale numbers that rival the early days of whaling."

Biodiversity [18]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [31]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
Australia & Oceania [41]
Source: Hakai [42], 01/09/2024
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Massive Dumping Ground Of WWII-Era Munitions Discovered Off L.A. Coast [43]

"It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels that litter the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. Oceanographers have now discovered what appears to be a massive dumping ground of military weaponry."

Military [44]
Pollution [23]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [46]
Source: LA Times [47], 01/08/2024
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Azerbaijan Names Former Oil Exec To Lead Climate Talks. Activists Concerned [48]

"Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company in a major oil-producing nation."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [49], 01/08/2024
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"DOE in 2024: Hydrogen, LNG And Climate" [50]

"The Department of Energy is racing this year to finalize clean energy regulations and disburse billions of dollars in grants and loans as President Joe Biden’s prospects for securing a second term hang in the balance."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [52], 01/08/2024
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‘Zombie Deer Disease’ Epidemic Spreads In Yellowstone. Are Humans Next? [53]

"When the mule deer buck died in October, it perished in a place most humans would consider the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest road. But its last breaths were not taken in an isolated corner of American geography. It succumbed to a long-dreaded disease in the backcountry of Yellowstone national park, north-west Wyoming – the first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in the country’s most famous nature reserve."

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Health [30]
Natural Resources [22]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [54]
Source: Guardian [55], 01/08/2024
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"Three Of California’s Biggest Climate Polluters Are In The Bay Area" [56]

"California’s largest greenhouse gas polluters, from power plants to oil refineries to chemical manufacturers, produced slightly fewer emissions last year than the previous year, federal data shows. But it’s still too much planet-warming gas to cut significantly into the problem of climate change, environmentalists say."

Air [57]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
California [46]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [58], 01/08/2024
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"Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say" [59]

"Rising temperatures have spurred an influx of beavers to Alaska and northern Canada ‘on a huge scale’".

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Infrastructure [60]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [31]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
Canada [62]
Source: Guardian [63], 01/08/2024
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Avian Flu Surges In N. California, Threatening U.S. Poultry, Egg Supplies [64]

"Farms across California have had to euthanize several million chickens and ducks in recent weeks, as a wave of avian influenza threatens to upend national poultry and egg supplies."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [30]
Natural Resources [22]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [14]
Source: The Hill [65], 01/08/2024
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"Berkeley’s Gas Ban Is All But Dead. What Does That Mean For Other Cities?" [66]

"On Tuesday, a federal appeals court decided not to revisit its earlier decision to strike down Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation gas ban in new buildings. The ruling dealt a blow to the city of Berkeley, which requested a rehearing after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ initial decision in April, and casts uncertainty over similar policies to electrify buildings in dozens of other cities."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [30]
Laws & Regulations [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [46]
Source: Grist [67], 01/08/2024
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