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"6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change" [1]

"Two dozen federal agencies flagged the biggest dangers posed by a warming planet. The list spreads across American society."

Agriculture [2]
Air [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Forests [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [18], 10/08/2021
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"Canada Invokes 1977 Treaty With US As Dispute Over Pipeline Intensifies" [19]

"The Canadian government has invoked a decades-old treaty with the United States in its latest bid to save a pipeline that critics warn could be environmentally catastrophic if it were to fail."

Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Canada [24]
Source: Guardian [25], 10/07/2021
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"Fire Brain": "What It's Like to Photograph the West's Biggest Wildfires" [26]

"Josh Edelson has shot some of the most iconic images of increasing destructive wildfires. Earther spoke with him about his work."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Forests [14]
Journalism & Media [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Earther [28], 10/06/2021
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"The Ship That Became a Bomb" [29]

"Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die."

Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Public [16]
Middle East [30]
Source: New Yorker [31], 10/06/2021
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Month After Ida's Landfall, Louisianians Decry 'Third World' Conditions [32]

"Reuters traveled the bayous of hard-hit Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes in recent days, speaking with more than 40 residents. All said they felt abandoned by state and federal officials. A few said they had not received any type of support from any level of government."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [20]
People & Population [34]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: Reuters [36], 10/05/2021
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"Oil Spills Plague Venezuelan Coast, But Cleanup Efforts Are Lacking" [37]

"There have been 53 oil spills in Venezuela this year through September, most of them concentrated on the Caribbean coast where massive government oil refineries operate with little environmental oversight."

Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
South America [38]
Source: Mongabay [39], 10/05/2021
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"Did Ship’s Anchor Cause California Oil Spill? Maybe" [40]

"Officials investigating one of California’s largest recent oil spills are looking into whether a ship’s anchor may have struck an oil pipeline on the ocean floor, causing heavy crude to leak into coastal waters and foul beaches, authorities said Monday."

Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [41]
Source: AP [42], 10/05/2021
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Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [43]

It sometimes feels like journalists lurch from one catastrophe (or hurricane, flood, wildfire, heat wave) to the next. But that can mean missing the bigger story: Disasters, increasingly linked to climate extremes, are often interlocking events, in which one system failure causes the next and the next. The latest Backgrounder explores three case studies, and how news media can focus attention on steps toward resilience.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [44]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [33]
Health [45]
Infrastructure [20]
Journalism & Media [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [46]
People & Population [34]
Planning & Growth [47]
Technology [48]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [49]
International [50]
Asia [51]
Europe [52]
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Public [16]
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How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means [53]

A growing body of research shows the links between global warming and extreme weather. And that knowledge can help communities prepare, and assign responsibility for damages. Veteran climate journalist Bob Berwyn lays out the science of climate attribution — for heat waves, flooding, wildfires and, ironically, crop-killing freezes — and discusses its implications for future climate change policy.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [54]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [55]
Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Food [56]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Planning & Growth [47]
Policy [57]
Science [58]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
International [50]
Europe [52]
South America [38]
Visibility: 
Public [16]
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For Bangladesh Climate Migrants, Pandemic Job Cuts Fuel 'Multiple Crises' [59]

"Bangladesh is one of the world's largest exporters of labour, but thousands have been left without work as the pandemic slows economies around the world".

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [6]
Economy & Business [7]
People & Population [34]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Asia [51]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [60], 10/04/2021
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