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"Eight Workers At Texas Chemical Plant Hospitalized After Toxic Gas Leak" [1]

"Eight people were taken to a hospital for treatment on Monday after a toxic gas leak at Altivia Chemicals’ plant in La Porte, Texas, local officials said."

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Source: Guardian [9], 12/06/2023
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"Next Thanksgiving, Smokey Bear Should Talk About Climate Change" [10]

"Call me basic, but I love waking up on Thanksgiving morning and watching the Macy’s parade. Without fail, I’m enthralled by the pageantry and comforted by the tradition: the floats, the crowds, the Broadway dance numbers. Santa Claus. The last few years, though, one element has bothered me."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [3]
Forests [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: LA Times [14], 12/01/2023
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Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Disease Fight [15]

"The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
People & Population [16]
Public [6]
International [17]
Africa [18]
Source: NYTimes [19], 12/01/2023
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"They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help" [20]

"“We need protection,” one migrant at the U.S. border said. But the legal system for refugees never envisioned the millions displaced by global warming."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [6]
International [17]
Source: NYTimes [24], 11/29/2023
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Pro-Iran Group Claims To Have Hacked Water Authority In Pennsylvania [25]

"Federal officials are investigating after a pro-Iran hacking group claimed to have committed a cyberattack at a water authority in Pennsylvania, according to a state congressman and water authority officials."

Disasters [3]
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Military [26]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [23]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Source: CNN [29], 11/29/2023
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Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change [30]

To make climate change less abstract and more direct, writer Madeline Ostrander traveled the country to speak to those living with its impacts in the places they call home. In a BookShelf “Between the Lines” Q&A, Ostrander discusses her resulting book, “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” and addresses the lenses she used, the characters she portrayed and the surprises she encountered.

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"Two Years With America’s Elite Firefighters" [44]

"Hotshot fire crews work on the front lines of the biggest wildfires in the American West. We rode along with them."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [3]
Forests [12]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [16]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [45], 11/22/2023
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Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Rail Dangers [46]

"Time and again, Johnny Taylor’s duty to keep the rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer’s desire to keep its trains running as fast and as frequently as possible, putting his career and family in peril."

Chemicals [2]
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Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Health [4]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Transportation [49]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ProPublica [50], 11/21/2023
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Climate On Track To Warm By Nearly 3°C Without Aggressive Actions: UN [51]

"Countries' current emissions pledges to limit climate change would still put the world on track to warm by nearly 3 degrees Celsius this century, according to a United Nations analysis released Monday."

Climate Change [11]
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Public [6]
International [17]
Source: Reuters [52], 11/21/2023
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Gulf Oil Leak Could Have Spilled More Than 1 Million Gallons: Coast Guard [53]

"Authorities were using skimmers and remote vehicles to respond to an oil leak off the coast of Plaquemines Parish on Monday, with more than a million gallons having potentially been spilled, the Coast Guard said."

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Fish & Fisheries [54]
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Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [23]
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Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [55], 11/21/2023
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