SEJ Remembers Long-Time Member David Sachsman [1]
SEJ members mourn the passing of David Sachsman, the George R. West Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, on October 6, 2022.
SEJ members mourn the passing of David Sachsman, the George R. West Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, on October 6, 2022.
"Hibernating bears stay healthy despite being very fat and sedentary. New research is focusing on what humans can learn from them."
"Fat bear week starts today, that glorious autumn tradition when anyone with an internet connection can vote for the plumpest brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. Last year, more than 800,000 people weighed in during Fat Bear Week, crowning Otis, an enormous, dimpled ursine, Fat Bear champion for the fourth time.
"Reggie Carrillo knows firsthand that where you live can determine how hot your neighborhood gets. The environmental activist and educator resides in a largely Mexican American area of south-central Phoenix, where segregation once forced Black and Hispanic people to live south of the railroad tracks."
"Hurricane Ian’s wrath made clear that Florida faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change anywhere in the country. But the state’s top elected leaders opposed the most significant climate legislation to pass Congress — laws to help fortify states against, and recover from, climate disasters, and confront their underlying cause: the burning of fossil fuels."
"The federal government has, for the first time, included crucial raw materials needed for the clean energy transition under a list of goods that have child or forced labor in their supply chains."
"An energy supply crunch tied to the war in Ukraine could cause widespread blackouts in the European Union this winter, an official in charge of managing crises within the bloc has warned."
"A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks."
"The World Bank has provided nearly $15bn of finance directly to fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015, and is likely to have spurred far greater investment indirectly, new research has found."
"Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer — and that’s prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key pieces of the economy."
"Sewage pipelines overflowed into waterways. Toppled portable toilets spilled into floodwaters. Gasoline and motor oil leaked from partly submerged vehicles. Downed trees have started decomposing on waterlogged roads."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/sej-remembers-long-time-member-david-sachsman
[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hibernating-fat-bears-are-complex-they-may-hold-lessons-human-health
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/10/05/fat-bears-hibernation/
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/low-income-communities-learn-tackle-climate-fueled-heat
[5] https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-united-states-race-and-ethnicity-phoenix-68405f7e61e47fb157dd553c8393e256
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/florida-leaders-rejected-major-climate-laws-now-they-re-seeking-storm-aid
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/climate/florida-republicans-climate-hurricane-ian.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Climate%20and%20Environment
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-acknowledges-child-labor-electric-vehicle-supply-chain
[9] https://gizmodo.com/child-labor-cobalt-polysilicon-electric-vehicles-1849620367
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/eu-preparing-blackouts-winter-amid-energy-crisis
[11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/europe-blackouts-energy-crisis-ukraine-russia/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-economy-about-explode
[13] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/world-bank-has-given-nearly-15bn-fossil-fuel-projects-paris-deal
[15] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/06/world-bank-has-given-nearly-15bn-to-fossil-fuel-projects-since-paris-deal
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/forever-chemicals-deer-fish-challenge-hunters-tourism
[17] https://apnews.com/article/science-michigan-animals-fish-wildlife-bc8f77b2935ba127c85a27eb6d07a30a?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/florida-s-waterways-contaminated-post-ian-posing-health-risks
[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/05/ian-hurricane-water-quality-florida/
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