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Nepal Puts Climate Justice At Centre Of Global Pitch For Flood Aid [9]

"Flood-hit Nepal will ask wealthier countries and global agencies for financial help this week, arguing they should contribute to the $5 billion needed for initial rebuilding as the disaster shows how ‌climate change has hit poor countries that did little to cause it, officials said."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
People & Population [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
International [20]
Asia [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 09/10/2026
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Few People Connecting the Dots Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather [23]

"It’s been a relentless summer of extremes—only the latest in a half-decade packed with record-breaking weather events. A growing body of research shows they’re becoming more frequent and severe as human-caused climate change accelerates."

Activism [24]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [15]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 09/10/2026
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NOAA Fisheries Takes A ‘Sharp Turn Away From Science’ [28]

"In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries science is in the government’s crosshairs."

Biodiversity [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
Science [34]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 09/10/2026
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Utahns Support Protecting National Monuments That Trump Downsized [36]

"New polling shows that two-thirds of registered voters in Utah support restoring protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments."

Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 09/10/2026
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North Carolina Races Restore Critical Peatland Before It Dries Up [39]

"The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles." "But it’s what’s underground that has drawn scientists and investors to this 23-square-mile (60-square-kilometer) tract: spongy, dense peat up to 15 feet (5 meters) deep."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [33]
Planning & Growth [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: AP [43], 09/10/2026
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Farmers Turn To Perennial Grains As One Solution To Extreme Weather [44]

"Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what’s normal."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Food [45]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: AP [46], 09/10/2026
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality [47]

"In the harrowing months th�at followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repeatedly assured that the air around the fallen towers was safe to breathe. But 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos as much as half a mile away, according to a sample of air quality records being released on Tuesday."

Chemicals [48]
Disasters [49]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: New York Times [52], 09/09/2026
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Smithsonian Chief To Retire As Trump Fights To Reshape The Institution [53]

"The Smithsonian Institution’s top official, Lonnie G. Bunch III, is retiring, ushering in a seismic transition at the nation’s museum and research organization just as President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign to influence its portrayal of American history." "Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said President Donald Trump’s pressure played no role in his decision and vowed to defend the institution’s independence until he leaves."

Government [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [32]
People & Population [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [54]
Science [34]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Washington Post [55], 09/09/2026
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U.S. to Loan $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa [56]

"The Energy Department said on Tuesday that it would lend up to $1.9 billion to help restart a shuttered nuclear power plant in Iowa, in the Trump administration’s latest move aimed at reviving nuclear energy in the United States." "No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [57]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [58]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: New York Times [59], 09/09/2026
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Judge Blocks Trump DOI Effort to Evict Hundreds of Bison From Public Land [60]

"A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to evict hundreds of bison from public lands in Montana."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [14]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Wildlife [41]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Public Domain [61], 09/09/2026
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Commentary: The Great Salt Lake — Utah’s Silent Health Emergency [62]

"In recent years, public discourse on air quality in Utah has rightly focused on the dangers of wildfire smoke. Wildfire events across the Western United States have degraded air quality for days and weeks at a time. Yet, while headlines chase each new plume of smoke, a slower and arguably more dangerous crisis has been allowed to develop with remarkably little urgency: the drying of the Great Salt Lake and the toxic dust it is now releasing into the air that Utahns breathe every single day."

Agriculture [40]
Air [63]
Chemicals [48]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [50]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Source: Utah News Dispatch [64], 09/09/2026
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Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks [65]

"Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [58]
Pollution [50]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Capital & Main [66], 09/09/2026
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Report Flags Thousands Of Food Packaging Chemicals For Replacement [67]

"A new study identifies the chemical groups that packaging manufacturers and regulators should target for replacement in the food system to protect human health."

Activism [24]
Chemicals [48]
Food [45]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Chemical & Engineering News [68], 09/09/2026
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In an Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster, Rebuilding Is the Wrong Goal [69]

"This spring, the Southeast was on fire. Ninety-five percent of the region was in severe drought, and in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas what was burning was what’s called the “blowdown” from Hurricane Helene — the fires tearing through landscapes heavy with trees felled a year and a half ago and left to bake into ready fuel, waiting for a spark."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [49]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: New York Times [70], 09/09/2026
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S. Calif. Authorities Respond To A Leak Of An Unknown Chemical From A Tank [71]

"A slow leak from a chemical tank smeared an orange cloud across the sky of a Southern California neighborhood on Tuesday, but authorities said they quickly got it under control."

Chemicals [48]
Pollution [50]
Public [19]
California [72]
Source: AP [73], 09/09/2026
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