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Historic Pact Gives Colorado River Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water [9]

"The deal will help the tribe raise money for infrastructure and services for its members while the water could ease the drought in the Southwest."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 05/06/2024
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CA Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up [20]

"On a dreary afternoon in January, a geyser of oily water shot over the fence of an oil and gas company in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, splattering the street, cars and a local coffee shop with petroleum just a block away from Ashley Hernandez’s house."

Air [21]
Chemicals [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
California [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 05/06/2024
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"New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus" [27]

"The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs, according to a new study."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [28]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 05/06/2024
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Epoch Times Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe [33]

"The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Science [36]
Public [17]
International [31]
Source: DeSmog [37], 05/06/2024
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‘Pesticides By Stealth’: Garden Soil Conditioners Killing Worms - Experts [38]

"Gardeners are inadvertently killing scores of earthworms with soil conditioners marketed as “organic”, experts fear, as they call for tighter regulation on products that poison the invertebrates."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [28]
Chemicals [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [30]
Public [17]
International [31]
Source: Guardian [39], 05/06/2024
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"Why Some Corals Are Better Off Dead" [40]

"As scientists rush to save ailing corals elsewhere, in Venezuela locals are trying to kill off this stinky variety."

Biodiversity [28]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Central America & the Caribbean [42]
Source: Washington Post [43], 05/06/2024
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"Violence Against Environmental Journalists Rises, UNESCO Says" [44]

"Journalists who report on environmental issues face increasing violence around the world from both state and private actors, UNESCO said on Thursday, highlighting that 44 of these journalists have been murdered between 2009 and 2023."

Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
International [31]
Source: Reuters [45], 05/03/2024
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"U.S. Accuses Russia of Using Chemical Weapons in Ukraine" [46]

"The United States has accused Russia of using chemical weapons, including poison gas, “as a method of warfare” against Ukrainian forces, in violation of a global ban on the use of such weapons."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Military [47]
Public [17]
International [31]
Europe [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 05/03/2024
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"Appeals Court Rejects Climate Change Lawsuit By Young Oregon Activists" [50]

"A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights."

Activism [51]
Climate Change [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [52], 05/03/2024
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‘Death Trap’ For Fish In California’s Water System Is Limiting Pumping [53]

"Giant pumps hum inside a warehouse-like building, pushing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the California Aqueduct, where it travels more than 400 miles south to the taps of over half the state’s population."

Agriculture [10]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Infrastructure [54]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
California [25]
Source: LA Times [55], 05/03/2024
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Tyson Foods Dumps Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into US Rivers And Lakes [56]

"Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals."

Agriculture [10]
Food [57]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [58], 05/03/2024
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"Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors" [59]

"Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [24]
Technology [60]
Public [17]
International [31]
Europe [48]
Source: Guardian [61], 05/03/2024
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"Chimps Are Dying Of The Common Cold. Is Great Ape Tourism To Blame?" [62]

"There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally miserable. But no one could say for sure what ailed them, even as the animals began to die."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [30]
Public [17]
Africa [63]
Source: Guardian [64], 05/03/2024
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"A Wild Orangutan Used A Medicinal Plant To Treat A Wound, Scientists Say" [65]

"An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday."

Biodiversity [28]
Environmental Health [12]
Natural Resources [15]
Technology [60]
Wildlife [30]
Public [17]
Africa [63]
Source: AP [66], 05/03/2024
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New California Bill Could Allow Developers To Cut Down More Joshua Trees [67]

"Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost."

Biodiversity [28]
Economy & Business [68]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Planning & Growth [69]
Public [17]
California [25]
Source: CalMatters [70], 05/03/2024
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