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"Assisted Migration Helps Animals Adapt to Climate Change" [1]

"Extreme heat and weather are shifting the areas fit for habitation—and not just for humans. Climate change is turning other vulnerable species into refugees as well."

Biodiversity [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Wildlife [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Sierra [9], 10/19/2023
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"Drought Turns Amazonian Capital Into Climate Dystopia" [10]

"A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years."

Air [11]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
International [14]
South America [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 10/19/2023
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PHMSA Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas Gathering Lines; Industry Unhappy [17]

"With little attention from the mainstream media, the Biden administration has begun imposing new rules on some 400,000 miles of gas pipes. Many are bigger and more dangerous lines laid since the boom in fracking."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 10/18/2023
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"In Brazil’s Amazon, Rivers Fall To Record Low Levels During Drought" [21]

"The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
South America [15]
Source: AP [22], 10/17/2023
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"In A Warming World, Hunger Stalks Guatemala's Mayan Highlands" [23]

"Crop failures are one reason an unprecedented number of migrants are heading to the U.S. border."

Agriculture [24]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Food [25]
People & Population [26]
Public [7]
Central America & the Caribbean [27]
South America [15]
Source: Reuters [28], 10/16/2023
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"How Megafires Are Remaking the World" [29]

"In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."

Biodiversity [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Studies [30]
Forests [31]
Natural Resources [5]
Wildlife [6]
Public [7]
International [14]
Source: NYTimes [32], 10/16/2023
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Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [33]

If you’re harboring serious doubts about the climate future but want to be prepared to cover it, the latest Reporter’s Toolbox offers up a seasonably ghoulish list of a dozen and a half great visualization sources to help tell the story. And lest it leave you spooked, remember, as the saying goes, everything will be OK in the end. And if it's not OK, it's not the end.

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Air [11]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [35]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
International [14]
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Public [7]
  • Read more about Here’s Your Handy Doomsday Dataviz Dashboard [33]

Warming And Habitat Loss Shrink Pollinator Numbers, Threaten Coffee, Cocoa [38]

"Changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops. As those problems interwine and intensify, it likely will hit coffee lovers right in the mug, according to a new study."

Agriculture [24]
Biodiversity [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Public [7]
International [14]
Source: AP [39], 10/13/2023
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"Extreme Heat Risks Rise For Pregnant Women And Babies" [40]

"As a health worker in South Sudan, Night Stella Elias sees from year to year how rising temperatures are adding to the dangers faced by pregnant women and their babies."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [35]
People & Population [26]
Public [7]
International [14]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 10/13/2023
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"USPS Is Falsifying Safety Docs As Its Workers Die of Heat" [42]

"Even after a mail carrier’s recent death, the company continues to violate its own rules."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [43]
People & Population [26]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [44]
Source: Texas Observer [45], 10/13/2023
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