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Rogue Twitter Brings Government Leaks to Masses [1]

Dozens of renegade government Twitter accounts have sprung up, with claims they're run anonymously by employees of various agencies whose missions appear threatened by the Trump administration. TipSheet has the story, plus a list of more than 40 accounts of interest to environmental reporters. 

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TipSheet [2]
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Activism [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [5]
Government [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [9]
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National (U.S.) [10]
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Public [11]

"Trump’s Agriculture Pick Could Undo National Forest Protections" [12]

"Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's policies in his state favored the timber industry and ignored the climate implications of the loss of forests, opponents argue."

Agriculture [13]
Climate Change [14]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [5]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: InsideClimate News [16], 02/07/2017
March 23, 2017

Two Mongabay.com and UMASS Journalism Department EJ Events [17]

In partnership with the UMASS Journalism Department, editors of global conservation news service Mongabay.com will talk about trends they're tracking and writing about, and also discuss the challenges of working in the media (and in a sector concerned with environmental science/trends/policy) at a time when the new U.S. Administration is not supportive: 1) The Changing Landscape: Environmental Journalism in the Age of Trump and 2) Changes to the Land: Discussion & Live Podcast Taping w/ Harvard Forest & Mongabay.

Other Events [18]
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Public [11]
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Climate Change [14]
Forests [5]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [19]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [20]

"Goldman Prize-Winning Activist Slain In Northern Mexico" [21]

"A Mexican indigenous leader who was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for his fight against illegal logging has been shot dead, less than a year after another winner of the award was slain in Honduras."

Activism [3]
Forests [5]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [11]
Mexico [22]
Source: AP [23], 01/19/2017

Carbon Storehouse: Scientists Map Vast Peat Swamps in Central Africa [24]

"Scientists have mapped what they say is the largest peatland in the tropics, an area larger than New York State in the Congo Basin in Central Africa."

Climate Change [14]
Forests [5]
Public [11]
Africa [25]
Source: NY Times [26], 01/12/2017

"Storm Topples Famous Drive-Through Sequoia" [27]

"The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, a former 'drive-through' giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County, was felled in California's weekend storms."

Forests [5]
Public [11]
California [28]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle [29], 01/10/2017

Obama Administration Moves To Protect Some Remote Areas Of Alaska [30]

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management issued four plans for management of 6.5 million publicly owned acres of Alaska’s eastern interior.

Forests [5]
Natural Resources [8]
Public [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [31]
Source: Wash Post [32], 01/06/2017

"Mapping the Urban Tree Canopy in Major Cities" [33]

"Which cities have the greenest streets? MIT’s Senseable City Lab is pushing toward an answer to this question with a new project called Treepedia."

Forests [5]
Planning & Growth [34]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: CityLab [35], 01/05/2017

"Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest Faces Fracking Threat" [36]

"The latest battleground for the future of fracking in Britain looks set to be Sherwood Forest, the legendary home of folk hero Robin Hood and now the target of a seismic survey by Ineos."

Energy & Fuel [37]
Forests [5]
Public [11]
Europe [38]
Source: Guardian [39], 01/03/2017

"World's Last Wild Frankincense Forests Are Under Threat" [40]

"In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap of wild frankincense trees."

Forests [5]
Natural Resources [8]
Public [11]
Africa [25]
Source: AP [41], 12/26/2016

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