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"How Flood-Ravaged Boston Took On The Climate Deniers – And Won" [1]

"As the Trump administration dismisses global heating, the coastal city is getting on with becoming one of the most climate resilient in the world. Here’s how" 

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Source: Guardian [13], 08/04/2025
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Trump Team Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing [14]

"Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?" 

Biodiversity [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Public Domain [17], 07/25/2025
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October 20, 2025 to October 30, 2025

Convention on Biological Diversity's SBSTTA-27, Oct 20-24, and SB8J-1, Oct 27-30 [18]

Media are invited to apply for accreditation to the 27th meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and the 1st meeting of the CBD's new Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

Professional Meetings [19]
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Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [15]
Diversity [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Health [23]
Planning & Growth [8]
Science [24]
Technology [25]
Region: 
International [26]
South America [27]
August 22, 2025

DEADLINE: IJNR Crown of the Continent Institute [28]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will bring 15 journalists to Montana, Oct 5-12, 2025, and introduce them to subject matter experts including Tribal members, ecologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, climate scientists, ranchers, land managers, and other stakeholders whose life or livelihood is based on the landscape. Deadline: Aug 22.

Workshops and Fellowships [29]
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Public [10]
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Journalism & Media [30]
Planning & Growth [8]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]

Trump Axes NOAA Tool To Help Communities Prepare For Future Rainfall [32]

"The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current and former federal officials familiar with the decision, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [5]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [34], 07/17/2025
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Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest [35]

A project begun to explore ways to protect the Amazon seemed to end with the murder of the journalist who conceived it, along with his guide and research partner. But others picked up the mantle and completed a volume exploring ways to save this precious and rapidly disappearing ecosystem. BookShelf reviewer Elyse Hauser on how this unusual book tries to meet that promise.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [36]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [15]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [37]
Journalism & Media [30]
Natural Resources [6]
Planning & Growth [8]
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International [26]
South America [27]
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Public [10]
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Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal [38]

Wildfire’s immensely destructive power is not just about what it burns. The smoke from more frequent fires, too, has real potential to harm human health, the new Backgrounder explains, releasing particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and worse. Learn more about the hazards and historical perspective, along with what journalists should tell their communities can be done.

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Backgrounders [39]
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Planning & Growth [8]
Policy [40]
Pollution [41]
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National (U.S.) [11]
California [42]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [44]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]
International [26]
Canada [45]
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"On Ireland’s Peat Bogs: Climate Action Clashes With Tradition – In Pictures" [46]

"Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations."

Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne for Reuters June 15, 2025. [47]

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [48]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [6]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
Europe [49]
Source: Reuters [47], 06/16/2025
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"Rockaway NY Was Fighting Coastal Erosion –- Then EPA Cancelled Funding [50]

"Planned programs to protect dunes and beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens are eroded by broken promises from Trump’s EPA." 

Biodiversity [15]
Climate Change [2]
Infrastructure [5]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Wildlife [51]
Public [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 06/10/2025
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"Using Earth To Rebuild A Planet Scorched By Fire" [53]

"The “SuperAdobe” homes of CalEarth are receiving plenty of attention after wildfires devastated parts of Los Angeles. Why aren’t we building them everywhere?" 

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Infrastructure [5]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Technology [25]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
California [42]
Source: Atmos [54], 06/09/2025
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