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We Made An Emergency Alert Guide To Help Calif. Make One For Your State. [9]

"CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state."

Disasters [10]
Infrastructure [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: CalMatters [15], 09/30/2024
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"If Trump Wins The Election, This Is What's At Stake" [16]

"Imagine, for a moment, oil and gas infrastructure carving up Alaska’s far northern tundra, a refuge for migrating caribou and polar bears. Copper-nickel mines on the doorstep of one of the largest wilderness areas east of the Rockies, a nearly 1.1m-acre (450,000-hectare) expanse of pristine lakes and forests full of loons, wolves and moose. Or uranium and coal exploration in once-protected landscapes, including areas bordering the Grand Canyon."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [22], 09/30/2024
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As Logging Intensifies Wildfires, Wet’suwet’en Fight To Protect Old Growth [23]

"Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas Tl’aat Twah and is planning how to protect it permanently."

Environmental Justice [24]
Forests [25]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [13]
Canada [26]
Source: Mongabay [27], 09/30/2024
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Reporter Who Revealed Deforestation In Cambodia Now Charged Himself [28]

"A journalist who covered the land grab and deforestation of a community forest by a mining company has himself been charged with deforestation."

Forests [25]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
Asia [30]
Source: Mongabay [31], 09/30/2024
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"Newsom Signs Bill To Ban Octopus Farming In California" [32]

"Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California."

Biodiversity [33]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Food [35]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Public [13]
California [38]
Source: LA Times [39], 09/30/2024
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"Helene Makes Landfall: 3 Dead, 2 Million Plus Without Power" [40]

"Hurricane Helene has made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Perry, Florida, bringing devastating storm surge, severe winds and heavy rain. At least three people have died as a result."

Tim Harris and Jan Wesner Childs report for the Weather Channel September 27, 2024. [41]

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Climate Change [17]
Disasters [10]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: Weather Channel [41], 09/27/2024
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Harris Backs Minerals Stockpile, Permitting Reform, Climate Tax Credits [43]

"Laying out her economic agenda this week, Vice President Harris backed increasing domestic minerals production and creating a minerals stockpile."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [46], 09/27/2024
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US Company Uses Government Funds To Suppress Global Pesticide Opposition [47]

"In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and other health problems. Publicly, the industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”. In private, industry advocates have gone further."

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [49]
Economy & Business [50]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [12]
Science [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [52]
Source: The New Lede [53], 09/27/2024
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"How The Fossil Fuel Industry Helps Spread Anti-Protest Laws Across The US" [54]

"Fossil fuel lobbyists coordinated with lawmakers behind the scenes and across state lines to push and shape laws that are escalating a crackdown on peaceful protests against oil and gas expansion, a new Guardian investigation reveals."

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [50]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [55], 09/27/2024
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"Parts of Appalachia Are Under Landslide Warnings In Hurricane Helene’s Wake" [56]

"The National Hurricane Center has warned of the risk of significant landslides through Friday in parts of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [10]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: NYTimes [57], 09/27/2024
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"Brazil Mega Dams Promised A Green Future. Then Came Climate Change" [58]

"President Lula bet big on mega dams in the 2000s to expand clean energy. Now climate change is hurting Brazil's green ambitions"

Climate Change [17]
Infrastructure [11]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
South America [59]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [60], 09/27/2024
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White Supremacist Gets 18 Years For Plot To ‘Lay Waste’ To Baltimore Grid [61]

"A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a white supremacist to 18 years in prison for conspiring to attack Baltimore’s power grid in hopes of provoking a race war."

Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Military [62]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
Source: The Hill [64], 09/27/2024
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"Dramatic Images Show Drought’s Toll On Amazon And Its Rivers" [65]

"Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [10]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
South America [59]
Source: AP [66], 09/27/2024
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"Lawmakers Scramble To Reach Last-Minute Deal To Save Farm Bill" [67]

"House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (R-Pa.) is meeting with congressional leaders on agricultural policy Thursday to try to secure a last-minute deal on passing the farm bill."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [17]
Consumer [68]
Environmental Politics [19]
Food [35]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [69], 09/27/2024
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In Ohio, Drought And Climate Change Affect Native Pawpaw Fruit [70]

"Stubborn drought in Ohio and the shifting weather patterns influenced by climate change appear to be affecting North America’s largest native fruit: the pawpaw."

Biodiversity [33]
Climate Change [17]
Food [35]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [71]
Source: AP [72], 09/27/2024
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