"With fact-backed journalism under such incredible attacks, journalists need to support each other, to lift up remarkable work and to ensure the next generation of environmental reporters gets the help they need." Read more [1] from Ken Ward Jr., Investigative Journalist and 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant Award Winner [2], then make every drop count: Support SEJ and our members with your tax-deductible donation [3].
"A flash of red streaked through the trees: a vermilion flycatcher. The brightly colored bird chirped and trilled, adding to a chorus that rang from the towering trees. ... The ecosystem depends on the river, and the river itself depends on an unseen source. Much of its flow is fed by groundwater, emerging from the aquifer in springs and seeps, sustaining the river."
"The world’s oceans are gasping for breath, a report issued Saturday at the annual global climate talks in Madrid has concluded."
"Around the world, humans are fracturing vast forests. Highways snake through the Amazon’s rain forests, and Indonesia plans an ambitious transportation grid in Borneo, through some of the largest untouched expanses of tropical forests. ... Conservation biologists have intensely debated the dangers that the fracturing of woodlands poses to animals."
"The world’s ability to adapt to climate change is on the agenda as the venerable international climate research program charts its next decade."
"CHEYENNE, Wyoming — On the western rim of the Great Plains, a futuristic building looks out of place on the treeless range. The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is indeed remote, two continents away from the weather forecasts it produces each day for Antarctica and millions of miles from the space weather it tracks.
And yet, it is surprisingly connected to the rapidly evolving story of Earth's changing climate.
"State officials have identified a cancer cluster in a north Houston neighborhood near a site contaminated over many decades by railroad operations that treated wooden ties with the hazardous product creosote."
"The Democratic presidential candidates who promise to ban fracking are keeping a secret: The president can't do that."
"EPA has hired another political appointee in its air regulatory office who has a long history of suing the agency."
"The House is poised to take up major climate change legislation before next year's elections, once the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis submits its policy recommendations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters this morning [Friday]."
"In an unprecedented response to historically low numbers of Pacific cod, the federal cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska is closing for the 2020 season."
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[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hundreds-new-wells-may-dry-one-arizonas-most-precious-rivers
[5] https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2019/12/05/water-pumping-threatens-arizona-riparian-area-san-pedro-river/3937598002/
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/world-s-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-rapidly-study-finds
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/climate/ocean-acidification-climate-change.html
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fractured-forests-are-endangering-wildlife-scientists-find
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/science/forests-fragmentation-wildlife.html
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/supercomputers-models-and-40-years-world-climate-research
[11] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06122019/climate-models-supercomputer-world-research-program-agu-100-anniversary-cheyenne-wyoming
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/texas-finds-cancer-cluster-near-houston-creosote-site
[13] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Cancer-cluster-identified-in-Houston-neighborhood-14885972.php
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/politics-ban-fracking-good-luck-mr-or-ms-president
[15] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061734581
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-air-office-appointee-fought-climate-emission-rules
[17] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061740807
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-pelosi-expects-major-climate-bill-2020-election
[19] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061740581
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alaska-cod-fishery-closes-and-industry-braces-ripple-effect
[21] https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/785634169/alaska-cod-fishery-closes-and-industry-braces-for-ripple-effect
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