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Severe Drought Has Returned To The Amazon Earlier Than Expected [9]

"Holder of one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, the Amazon is beginning the dry season with many of its rivers already at critically low levels, prompting governments to anticipate contingency measures to address issues ranging from disrupted navigation to increasing forest fires."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
South America [14]
Source: AP [15], 08/06/2024
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Minnesota Settles ‘Deceptive Environmental Marketing’ Suit Over Plastic Bags [16]

"Walmart and Reynolds Consumer Products have agreed to stop selling certain plastic bags in Minnesota for two and a half years, after the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, argued in court that the companies had falsely marketed them as recyclable."

Chemicals [17]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Waste [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 08/06/2024
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"Bad Data Is Souring The EV-Charging Experience. Here’s How To Fix It." [26]

"A new report shows a chasm between software-reported and real-world reliability of public EV chargers in the U.S. — and lays out how to make things better."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Transportation [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Canary Media [28], 08/06/2024
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Wyoming Offers To Sell Land To Grand Teton Park — Or Developers [29]

"Under a chrome-colored sky ribboned by rainclouds, local outfitter Jake Hutton led a horseback tour of the Kelly Parcel, telling stories all the while."

Biodiversity [30]
Environmental Politics [31]
Government [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Wildlife [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [35]
Source: NPR [36], 08/06/2024
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UK: "Dozens of New MPs Worked for Oil and Gas Lobbyists" [37]

"At least 24 newly elected MPs used to work for public relations, consultancy and lobbying firms that have a history of representing oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
Europe [38]
Source: DeSmog [39], 08/06/2024
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Reclusive Tribe Attacks Encroaching Loggers In Peru’s Amazon [40]

"Peru’s reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization."

Activism [41]
Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [31]
Forests [43]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [44]
Public [13]
South America [14]
Source: AP [45], 08/06/2024
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Hurricane Debby To Bring Catastrophic Rains, Flooding To FL, GA, SC [46]

"The center of Hurricane Debby is expected to reach the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday bringing potential record-setting rains, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it moves slowly across the northern part of the state before stalling over the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [47]
Source: AP [48], 08/05/2024
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"Agency Votes to Replace Official Accused of Rushing Start of Seabed Mining" [49]

"The international agency charged with regulating seabed mining worldwide voted on Friday to replace its top executive, after accusations that the British lawyer running the agency was too closely aligned with the mining industry."

Biodiversity [30]
Chemicals [17]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [31]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
International [51]
Source: NYTimes [52], 08/05/2024
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Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Larger Than Average, Larger Than Expected For 2024: NOAA [53]

"Due largely to lagging prevention efforts in the Midwest, the low-oxygen area of the Gulf of Mexico is larger than expected this year, prompting fish and shrimp to flee nearly 4 million acres of habitat and killing off bottom-dwelling species."

Agriculture [54]
Biodiversity [30]
Chemicals [17]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Pollution [55]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [47]
Source: The Lens [56], 08/05/2024
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"How China Bought Its Way Into National Fishing Grounds Around The World" [57]

"On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an Argentine coast guard patrol and ordered over the radio to halt, the ship fled the scene. The Argentinians gave chase and fired warning shots. Then the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 tried to ram the coast guard cutter, prompting it to open fire and sink the Chinese ship."

Biodiversity [30]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Military [58]
Natural Resources [33]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
International [51]
Asia [59]
South America [14]
Source: LA Times [60], 08/05/2024
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"Incarcerated People Are Drinking Unsafe Water in Illinois State Prisons" [61]

"Brian Harrington entered the Illinois Department of Corrections system in 2007 at age 14, sentenced to 25 years in prison. ... He remembers the toilet water being brown—and sometimes the drinking water, too. He recalls the tap water’s sewer smell and the black specks swirling, then settling, in his cup."

Environmental Health [62]
Environmental Justice [42]
Infrastructure [63]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [44]
Pollution [55]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: Sierra [64], 08/05/2024
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"ABC Host Reportedly Received Death Threats After Trump Interview" [65]

"ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming."

Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Guardian [66], 08/05/2024
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Belgian and Swiss Triathletes Fall Ill Following Race In River Seine [67]

"Belgium has withdrawn from the mixed relay triathlon race on Monday and Switzerland has had to mix up its roster after athletes from both countries fell ill following the initial triathlon races last week."

Environmental Health [62]
Journalism & Media [20]
Pollution [55]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
Europe [38]
Source: CNN [68], 08/05/2024
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‘A Matter Of Life And Death’: How Disaster Response Endangers US Farmworkers [69]

"When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last summer, a tree fell straight through a trailer occupied by a migrant-farmworker family in Hamilton County. They couldn’t afford to move, even temporarily, so the family of six just picked up the things they could salvage and continued to live around the rotting tree."

Agriculture [54]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [62]
Environmental Justice [42]
People & Population [44]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [47]
Source: Grist [70], 08/05/2024
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"Fire Season’s Front-Line Workers Get Organized" [71]

"After wildland firefighter Ben McLane fought California’s deadliest fire, he started second-guessing his line of work. The November 2018 Camp Fire near Paradise had killed 85 and leveled 18,000 homes. McLane was used to hiking steep terrain and digging endless fire breaks. He was accustomed to the spectacle of entire hillsides of pine and fir aflame. He wasn’t used to this scale of devastation — or feeling he’d worked in vain. Meanwhile, he rarely saw his family, and couldn’t fathom affording a house. Was firefighting worth it?"

Activism [41]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [62]
Environmental Justice [42]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [44]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Capital & Main [72], 08/05/2024
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