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Metropolitan Water District Declares Drought Emergency In Southern Calif. [1]

"Southern California’s largest urban water district declared a drought emergency on Tuesday and called for local water suppliers to immediately cut the use of water from the State Water Project."

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Source: LA Times [9], 11/10/2021
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"COP26 Climate Summit Draft Reveals Which Fights Remain" [10]

"COP26 organizers released a preliminary draft early Wednesday of an agreement on how countries will work together to curb climate change. The language will evolve over the course of the final days of the conference, and it contains several provisions that are likely to be contentious."

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Source: Washington Post [13], 11/10/2021
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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [14]

After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.

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Infrastructure Bill Makes 1st Major US Investment in Climate Resilience [44]

"The $1 trillion infrastructure bill now headed to President Biden’s desk includes the largest amount of money ever spent by the United States to prepare the nation to withstand the devastating impacts of climate change."

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Source: NYTimes [47], 11/08/2021
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"Faith Groups Increasingly Join Fight Against Climate Change" [48]

"On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground — a place he fears will disappear."

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Source: AP [50], 11/05/2021
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"As Madagascar Faces Climate-Linked Famine, UN Flags Need To Prepare" [51]

"With the African island nation suffering a food crisis driven by drought on a warming planet, WFP says it's an alarm bell on the need to step up protection for vulnerable people"

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Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [52], 11/05/2021
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Laws Offer Little Protection to Expected 200 Million Climate Refugees [53]

"Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”"

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Source: Inside Climate News [54], 11/03/2021
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Will Animal-To-Human Disease Transmission Bring the Next Big Pandemic? [55]

The COVID-19 outbreak has left little unchanged — including how environment reporters do their jobs, given that many experts believe the disruption of the human-wild interface could be the source of the next deadly virus. The new Backgrounder makes the case in this analysis, looking at how societies — and journalists — handled this pandemic and must prepare for possible future outbreaks.

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"‘Last, Best Hope:’ Leaders Launch Crucial UN Climate Summit" [60]

"GLASGOW, Scotland — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists’ demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at slowing intensifying global warming and adapting to the climate damage already underway."

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Source: AP [61], 11/01/2021
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‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest [62]

"Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits".

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Source: Guardian [64], 10/29/2021
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