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Source: Reuters [9], 01/27/2023

Read more about "U.S. Native Seed Shortage Hinders Land Restoration - Report" [1]

"Biden Administration Sets a Mining Ban in Boundary Waters Wilderness" [10]

"The Biden administration on Thursday said it will establish a 20-year moratorium on mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a vast preserve of lakes and woods that has been at the center of a fierce dispute over a proposed copper and nickel mine."

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Source: NYTimes [18], 01/27/2023

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"Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest" [19]

"The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has banned logging and road-building on about nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, aiming to settle a two-decade battle over the fate of North America’s largest temperate rainforest."

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Alaska and Hawaii [20]

Source: NYTimes [21], 01/26/2023

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Determined Grantee Weaves Together Unique Project on Ash Trees, Wetlands and Baskets [22]

When the global pandemic interfered with independent journalist Gabriel Popkin’s plans for a grant-funded biodiversity reporting project on the emerald ash borer, an invasive pest threatening ash forests, he came up with a surprising solution. In this FEJ StoryLog, Popkin shares how he worked around travel shutdowns and subsequent story pitch rejections to ultimately discover an alternative storytelling option to keep his project alive.

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Read more about Determined Grantee Weaves Together Unique Project on Ash Trees, Wetlands and Baskets [22]

"Feds Send $930 Million To Curb ‘Crisis’ Of US West Wildfires" [30]

"The U.S. is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from national forests, the Biden administration announced Thursday, as officials struggle to protect communities from destructive infernos being made worse by climate change."

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Source: AP [32], 01/20/2023

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Over 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets By Top Provider Worthless: Study [33]

"The forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading provider and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a new investigation."

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Source: Guardian [36], 01/19/2023

Read more about Over 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets By Top Provider Worthless: Study [33]

"Brazilian Meat Giant Under Fire For Allegedly Misleading Investors" [37]

"JBS sold more than $3 billion worth of ‘green bonds’ in the U.S., but a watchdog group says its impact on Amazon forests belies its pledges".

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Source: Washington Post [39], 01/19/2023

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‘Death By 1,000 Clearcuts’: Canada’s Deep-Snow Caribou Are Vanishing [40]

"The B.C. government spends millions on extreme measures — like wolf culls and maternity pens — to support these mountain-loving herds found nowhere else in the world. Yet such efforts fail to offset the habitat destruction at the root of their disappearance".

Forests [4]

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Canada [17]

Source: The Narwhal [41], 01/17/2023

Read more about ‘Death By 1,000 Clearcuts’: Canada’s Deep-Snow Caribou Are Vanishing [40]

NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source [42]

Instrumentation on the International Space Station that gathers 3-D images of forest canopies and other environmental data is scheduled to soon be junked. But the move is provoking an outcry from scientists and pushback from some politicians. Reporter’s Toolbox examines what the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation does and how journalists might make use of it, while it lasts.

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"Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect Nature" [45]

"From Ethiopia’s highlands to Siberia to the Australian rainforest, there are thousands of sacred forests that have survived thanks to traditional religious and spiritual beliefs. Experts say these places, many now under threat, have ecological importance and must be saved."

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