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2012 Snow Cover Starting Out Very Low [1]

Snow cover has many implications, from ski resorts short on snow and farmers who rely on snowmelt for irrigation to firefighters and residents battling major fires in unusual locations in the middle of winter and smothering blizzards in areas at the other end of the extreme snow spectrum this year.
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TipSheet [2]
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Natural Resources [3]
Disasters [4]
Climate Change [5]
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Public [6]
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Other Information Access News in Brief [7]

Climate scientist Michael Mann wins bid to join emails lawsuit; BP and other Gulf oil spill CEOs won't testify before House committee; Republican House freshmen disappointed by Supercommittee's secrecy; Obama admin to issue disclosure rules for fracking on federal lands; WRI/Transparency Int'l panel on climate policy corruption, Nov. 3, 2011, in DC; proposed FOIA rule would let gov't deny existence of records; and bill to improve pipeline safety and increase access to info passes Senate.
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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Policy [9]
Government [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Disasters [4]
Climate Change [5]
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Public [6]
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Corps Puts Searchable National Levee Database Online [12]

Levees have huge environmental and human impacts, but are often neglected by news media until disaster strikes. The NLD should make reporting both routine and crisis stories a lot easier. The bad news is that after several years of work by the Corps, only a small fraction of all the levees in the US have been entered into the database.
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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [13]
Disasters [4]
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Public [6]
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SkyTruth Launches Online Environmental Accident Mapper [14]

Reporters can now get a better picture of breaking environmental pollution events via SkyTruth Alerts on air and water pollution incidents, toxic spills, and more.
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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [15]
Pollution [16]
Disasters [4]
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Public [6]
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Enterprising Stories Stand Out in Recent Disaster Coverage — From Japan to Texas [17]

Here's a sampling of coverage of recent extreme weather disasters, with particular focus on a few of the many enterprise stories that emanated from four clusters of events — the tsunami-caused crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, drought and wildfires in Texas, death-dealing tornadoes in the Southeast and massive flooding in the Mississippi River system.

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Backgrounders [18]
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Disasters [4]
Journalism & Media [19]
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Public [6]
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Covering Trauma, Surviving Trauma and Gaining New Insight into How To Handle It [20]

Miami-based radio news director Dan Grech recounts his journey covering the traumatic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, becoming homeless thanks to Hurricane Wilma, his subsequent training on trauma reporting, and shares his lessons learned with you.

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Backgrounders [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [4]
Journalism & Media [19]
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Public [6]
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TVA Public Relations Staff Edited Engineer's Report on Failed Coal-Ash Dam [21]

Dam inspections began before the Dec. 2008 spill incident of 5.4 million cubic yards of coal-ash slurry in Tennessee. Afterward, the initial draft engineer's report of the pre-spill inspection noted several eroded areas needed to be fixed "immediately;" the word was subsequently struck from the report.
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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
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Public [6]
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Just As Climate Change Becomes a Dirty Word In Washington, Natural Disasters Strike [23]

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Features [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [4]
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Public [6]
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Nuclear Experts Assess How Well Media Covered Fukushima [25]

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Features [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Region:
Asia [27]
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Public [6]
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BP Blowout: Lessons from Gulf Oil Disaster [28]

Everything from the social media’s importance to the need for a detailed disaster plan — Robert A. Thomas, professor and director of the Center for Environmental Communication, School of Mass Communication at Loyola University in New Orleans, outlines 17 take-away lessons for journalists.

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Backgrounders [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [11]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
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