"Ice Crack To Put UK Antarctic Base In Shut-Down" [1]
"The British Antarctic Survey is to pull all staff out of its space-age Halley base in March for safety reasons."
Source: BBC News [2], 01/17/2017
"The British Antarctic Survey is to pull all staff out of its space-age Halley base in March for safety reasons."
"William K. Reilly, who was head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, is blunt in his assessment of the climate change deniers and anti-regulatory hawks who have been nominated to fill many of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s top environmental posts. Reilly, a Republican, looks with special alarm upon Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, nominated to run the EPA."
"In his successful runs for state senator in Montana and then for Congress, Representative Ryan Zinke has promoted his 23-year career in the Navy SEALs as one of his main credentials, going so far as to put the SEALs’ Trident symbol on his campaign bus."
What makes for an effective science or environment essay? Freelance Files contributor Michelle Nijhuis explores universal qualities of the best work: It begins with a persistent question that sets the essayist off on a journey of discovery. Also, practical tips on how to get published beyond the essay departments of major magazines.
Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2015) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald [9]:
"The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs."
"SYDNEY, Australia – Hours after Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull smiled for a photo with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Sydney on Saturday, Japanese whalers were caught killing whales in the icy waters of the Australian Whale Sanctuary off Antarctica."
"'Water always wins in the end': Lost rivers slow development and capture the imagination".
"British climate scientists asked Britain's prime minister on Monday to press U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to acknowledge climate change risks and support international action to slow global warming."
"The state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ice-crack-put-uk-antarctic-base-shut-down
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38643420
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/republican-who-led-epa-urges-confronting-trump-climate
[4] http://e360.yale.edu/feature/republican_former_chief_of_epa_time_to_battle_trump_on_climate_william_k_reilly/3070/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-nominee-promotes-navy-seal-career-playing-down-%E2%80%98bad-judgment%E2%80%99
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/ryan-zinke-navy-seal.html?smid=tw-nytnational&smtyp=cur&_r=0
[7] https://www.sej.org/publications/freelance-files/art-essay-science-and-environment-writers
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[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ringling-bros-circus-folding-its-tent-after-nearly-150-years
[11] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-circus-idUSKBN14Z04H
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/japan-caught-dead-whale-australian-sanctuary
[13] http://ens-newswire.com/2017/01/15/japan-caught-with-dead-whale-in-australian-sanctuary/
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-hamiltons-ghost-rivers-haunt-citys-new-development
[15] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ghost-rivers-hamilton-1.3922966
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/uk-climate-scientists-raise-concerns-about-trump-presidency
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-britain-trump-idUSKBN15000F
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wisconsin-dnr-purges-climate-change-web-page
[19] http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/28/dnr-purges-climate-change-on-web-page/95929564/
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[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2699
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2702
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