"Charting a Planet's Changing Rhythms, Through a Physician's Eyes" [1]

Paul Epstein started his career as a physician caring for the poor in Mozambique and Boston. In a new book, the Associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and Global Environment connects the dots between climate change and its global impacts. They range from cholera outbreaks in Africa and plankton blooms in the Caribbean ... to parasites devastating East Coast oysters.

Source: Daily Climate [2], 06/07/2011

Nearly 200 Communities Get $76 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants [3]

"Nearly 200 communities across the United States have been awarded new federal grants to clean up old contaminated industrial sites and transform them into new, job-creating developments."

Source: EHN [4], 06/07/2011

"Missouri River Dams to Release Historic Rush of Water" [5]

"Releases from six Missouri River reservoirs, already at historic levels, will be increased again this month, say water managers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."

Source: ENS [6], 06/07/2011

"As Decision on Grand Canyon Mining Nears, Sides Line Up" [7]

"A moratorium on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon expires in six weeks, and the Interior Department is under pressure from conservation groups and mining companies over what to do about it."

Source: McClatchy [8], 06/07/2011

"Supreme Court Declines to Take GE Challenge of Superfund" [9]

"The Supreme Court decided [Monday] not to take up General Electric Co.'s legal campaign over how U.S. EPA exercises its authority to order companies to clean up hazardous waste sites."

Source: Greenwire [10], 06/07/2011

"World Needs Refugee Re-Think For Climate Victims: U.N." [11]

"The world must invent new ways to protect people driven from their homes by climate change without copying safeguards for those uprooted by wars or persecution, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday."

Source: Reuters [12], 06/07/2011

"Japan Concedes Severity of Blast" [13]

"Japan disclosed Monday that its nuclear accident was more severe in its first days than it had previously admitted -- casting new light on how Tokyo's early handling of the disaster briefly sent its relations with the U.S. into one of the tensest periods in years."

Source: Wall St. Journal [14], 06/07/2011

"TransCanada Says Keystone Resumes Shipping Crude Oil" [15]

"TransCanada Corp's 591,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone pipeline resumed shipping crude oil, one week after being shut by a leak at a Kansas pumping station, the Calgary-based company said in a statement."

Source: Reuters [16], 06/07/2011

Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (MoJo) [17]

Mozilla and the Knight Foundation have partnered to bring web technologists and journalists together worldwide to invent the future of news. Submit your ideas for the opportunity to take part in the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab in July 2011 and earn a paid, one-year Knight-Mozilla Fellowship at a leading news organization.

Independent Receptions at SEJ's 21st Annual Conference [18]

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Independent Hospitality Receptions

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