"More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found."
To help journalists connect the dots between policy, public and private financing and calls for equitable housing, parks and other assets, the National Press Foundation will hold an expenses-paid journalism training in Missoula, Montana, October 7-10, 2024. Apply by Sep 2.
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"An Australian start-up is hoping fungi can pull carbon dioxide from the air and stash it underground. It’s one of several ventures trying to deploy the superpowers of soil to slow global warming."
"The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans rising as it continues to leap the species barrier, reaching new host species."
"Five years ago, Lisa Clark and her husband left her hometown of El Centro for Niland, a small town of 500, in search for more affordable housing. But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just two miles southeast of the Salton Sea."
"After being in place for over six years, a boil water notice for the small West Texas town of Toyah has been lifted."
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[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/climate/excess-heat-deaths-europe.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-npf-covering-equitable-community-development-journalism-fellowship
[4] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-vital-impacts-environmental-photography-grants-and-mentorships
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ejn-mediterranean-media-initiative-story-grants
[6] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ejn-grants-video-content-production-and-distribution-build-awareness-about
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ejn-virtual-reporting-fellowships-uncbd-cop16-and-unfccc-cop29
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/can-dirt-clean-climate
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/climate/climate-change-fungus-carbon-australia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.iC_T.RYde9MeB7_C0&smid=url-share
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/animal-apocalypse-deadly-bird-flu-infects-hundreds-species-pole-pole
[11] https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/animal-apocalypse-deadly-bird-flu-infects-hundreds-of-species-pole-to-pole/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bacteria-make-salton-sea-smelly-all-year-long-making-people-s-asthma-worse
[13] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-06/the-salton-sea-smellier-and-saltier-than-ever
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/after-6-years-texas-town-s-boil-water-notice-lifted-residents-worry
[15] https://www.marfapublicradio.org/2024-08-09/after-six-years-toyahs-boil-water-notice-has-been-lifted-but-some-residents-still-have-concerns
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