"Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse, the most comprehensive global stocktake to date warns."
"Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July."
"Afghanistan embodies a new breed of international crisis, where the hazards of war collide with the hazards of climate change, creating a nightmarish feedback loop that punishes some of the world’s most vulnerable people and destroys their countries’ ability to cope."
"Information about potential environmental threats caused by Hurricane Ida have been slow in coming, but initial reports to the Coast Guard's National Response Center and the state Department of Environmental Quality confirm there were releases of crude oil, fuel oils and a variety of chemicals in numerous locations in southeastern Louisiana on the day before and the day of the storm."
The Knight Foundation and Lenfest Institute for Journalism have provided grant funding to cover the costs for a select number of journalists to attend the summit in Keene, NH (including transportation, lodging and meals).
Meet SEJ member Chase Cain! Chase is a climate storyteller for a new national network called NBCLX, which is focused on long-form storytelling, aimed at Gen Z and Millennial audiences.
"Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories – like the dramatic comeback of bald eagle populations in North America – birds of prey are in decline worldwide."
"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met in Tokyo on Tuesday with Japan’s top diplomat to push efforts to fight climate change ahead of a United Nations conference in November. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi highlighted what he said was the importance of getting other major carbon emitters, especially China, to cooperate."
"On Sept. 2, an area north of downtown Juneau will hear a loud, discordant siren. Juneau’s power company will be testing a disaster plan for a scenario where the 168-foot Salmon Creek hydroelectric dam fails and floods a largely commercial district near the regional hospital."
"A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildfire raced toward Lake Tahoe, a sparkling gem on the California-Nevada state line."
Links
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[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/01/up-to-half-worlds-wild-tree-species-could-risk-extinction
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/world-has-finally-stopped-using-leaded-gasoline-algeria-used-last-stockpile-world-finally
[4] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1031429212/the-world-has-finally-stopped-using-leaded-gasoline-algeria-used-the-last-stockp
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[9] https://www.sej.org/calendar/radically-rural-summit
[10] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-chase-cain-climate-storyteller-nbclx
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[12] https://apnews.com/article/health-environment-and-nature-birds-science--0c7d627f236fe1ff86aa4fc34b22916c
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[14] https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-japan-climate-environment-and-nature-38695d33363088394313fa72290018ef
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/some-ask-why-salmon-creek-dam-safety-documents-are-kept-secret
[16] https://www.ktoo.org/2021/08/28/as-juneaus-power-company-tests-disaster-plan-some-ask-why-salmon-creek-dam-safety-documents-are-kept-secret/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wildfire-evacuees-flood-lake-tahoe-roads-rush-flee
[18] https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-lake-tahoe-57d7b821afacfac5ffd586bb897150d8
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