"At the start of wildfire season, California’s insurance regulator has backed sweeping changes to discourage home building in fire-prone areas, including looking at cutting off new construction in those regions from what is often their only source of insurance — the state’s high-risk pool."
"The dispute over felling British Columbia’s ancient forests has been thrust into the limelight by a months-long blockade of private logging company Teal Jones in the Fairy Creek watershed on western Vancouver Island. Protests that started last August have intensified in recent weeks, leading to more than 150 arrests."
"Group of Seven (G7) rich countries backed moves to force banks and companies to disclose their exposure to climate-related risks on Saturday, a measure seen as vital to efforts to safeguard the financial system from climate change shocks.
G7 finance ministers meeting in London also called for more coordination to measure what impact companies are having on the climate and environment, warning of the risk of fragmentation as local jurisdictions adopt different approaches.
"The world needs to restore nature on land areas equivalent to the size of China by 2030 if it is to feed a fast-growing population, curb pollution, halt species loss and meet global goals to tackle climate change, U.N. agencies said on Thursday."
June 3, 2021 — The Society of Environmental Journalists has written the U.S. State Department urging it to do all in its power to free two U.S. journalists working in Myanmar who have been imprisoned since the military seized power there in February. Danny Fenster, managing editor of the independent news outlet Frontier Myanmar, was detained May 24 as he prepared to fly to the U.S. for a family visit. Nathan Maung, editor-in-chief of the local news outlet Kamayut Media, was seized in March. Read SEJ's letter [10].
"Fast-food restaurants and grocery store chains are joining a growing number of states in pushing “forever chemicals” out of food packaging, despite a federal thumbs-up that allows PFAS to touch what people eat."
"Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a $3.4bn deal to restore the freshwater preserve and Biden has earmarked funds to help".
"The younger generation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are on average about three feet (one meter) shorter than whales were 20 years ago, drone and aircraft data show in a study in Thursday’s journal Current Biology."
"At least a tenth of the world's mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada late last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service and shared with the Visalia Times-Delta."
"The birding community faces a difficult debate about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers".
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/disasters-worsen-calif-looks-curbing-construction-risky-areas
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/climate/climate-California-wildfires-insurance.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/save-fairy-creek-battle-over-western-canadas-ancient-forests
[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-forestry-oldgrowth/save-fairy-creek-the-battle-over-western-canadas-ancient-forests-idUSKCN2DI0B1
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/g7-backs-making-climate-risk-disclosure-mandatory
[6] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/g7-backs-making-climate-risk-disclosure-mandatory-2021-06-05/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/restore-land-size-china-meet-climate-and-nature-goals-un
[8] https://news.trust.org/item/20210603114155-i2c5s/
[9] https://www.sej.org/sej-urges-state-dept-free-us-journalists-detained-myanmar
[10] https://www.sej.org/sites/default/files/sej-letter-re-myanmar06032021.pdf
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wendy-s-states-ditch-food-wrappers-forever-chemicals
[12] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/wendys-states-ditch-food-wrappers-with-forever-chemicals
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alliance-between-biden-and-republicans-could-save-dying-everglades
[14] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/03/florida-everglades-restoration-pollution-republicans
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/shrinking-giants-north-atlantic-right-whales-getting-tinier
[16] https://apnews.com/article/health-climate-change-whales-science-environment-and-nature-e8478d8d6decf8a6cf4c9037f0c60f2f
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/shocking-study-finds-10-worlds-giant-sequoias-killed-castle-fire
[18] https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2021/06/01/castle-fire-may-have-killed-tenth-worlds-giant-sequoia-shocking-new-nps-study-has-found/5186067001/
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bird-lovers-grapple-honorary-names-linked-racists-audubon
[20] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/bird-names-racism-audubon/
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1355
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