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October 9, 2025 to October 15, 2025

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress [1]

Media are invited to cover the IUCN World Conservation Congress for free, either in person or virtually. Held every four years, the 2025 event takes place in Abu Dhabi with five themes.

Professional Meetings [2]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [9]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Food [11]
Forests [12]
Government [13]
Health [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [17]
People & Population [18]
Planning & Growth [19]
Policy [20]
Pollution [21]
Technology [22]
Transportation [23]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [26]
Region: 
International [27]
Middle East [28]

Two Dead as FDA Refuses To Name Farm That Recalled Melons [29]

The Food and Drug Administration is so far refusing to name a Southwestern Indiana farm that voluntarily recalled its cantaloupes after a Salmonella outbreak last month that killed two people and sickened some 150.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [14]
Food [11]
Agriculture [31]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

House Considers Quashing Report on Carcinogens [33]

For years, scientists at the National Toxicology Program have published the "Report on Carcinogens," which lists chemicals known to (or believed to) cause cancer. The "12th Report on Carcinogens" was released on June 10, 2011 — will there be a 13th? Some House Republicans want to stop updating and publication of the report.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [14]
Government [13]
Chemicals [34]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
September 18, 2012 to September 20, 2012

Climate Change Adaptation Forum Focusing on Food Security and Traditional Plant Use [35]

This forum is for community‐level practitioners, academics, government representatives and community leaders who work in the area of climate change adaptation in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Canada and Tribes in the United States.

Other Events [36]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Technology [22]
Science [37]
Policy [20]
Planning & Growth [19]
Natural Resources [16]
Health [14]
Government [13]
Forests [12]
Food [11]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Environmental Health [8]
Disasters [38]
Climate Change [5]
Biodiversity [4]
Agriculture [31]
Region: 
Canada [39]

Japan Nuclear: "Lead Shields Masked Radiation Readings Up To 30%" [40]

"Lead radiation shields forced on workers at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to cover their dosimeters masked radiation readings by about 30 percent."

Disasters [38]
Health [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [17]
Public [3]
International [27]
Source: Asahi Shimbun [41], 08/10/2012

Book Details Soviet Plans To Wage Germ Warfare With Designer Strains [42]

"In the Soviet playbook for all-out war with the United States, the wasting of U.S. cities by nuclear bombs was to be followed by something equally horrifying: waves of plagues to kill any survivors. Soviet scientists spent decades preparing for the second attack, concocting new kinds of biological weapons more lethal than any ever invented."

Disasters [38]
Health [14]
Military [43]
Public [3]
International [27]
Source: Wash Post [44], 08/09/2012
August 15, 2012 to August 18, 2012

Urban Agriculture Summit [45]

Urban agriculture is becoming an essential element of food security, improving access to healthy, affordable food in a rapidly urbanizing world, generating much-needed skills development and local employment, and improving local environmental and community health. The first Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto, Canada, presented by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and FoodShare, will be action-oriented.

Other Events [36]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
Topics on the Beat: 
Food [11]
Environmental Health [8]
Economy & Business [6]
Agriculture [31]
Health [14]
People & Population [18]
Planning & Growth [19]
Region: 
Canada [39]

Pennsylvania Doctor Sues Over Disclosure Bans in New Fracking Law [46]

"A Luzerne County physician claims in a federal lawsuit that Pennsylvania's new oil and natural gas drilling law will force him to violate ethical rules in treating his patients."

Environmental Health [8]
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [47]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [49], 08/02/2012

"Ancestral Remedies to the Rescue" [50]

As ethnobotanists meet in New York City, they offer reminders that obscure and endangered species should be preserved because they sometimes form the basis of miracle drugs.

Biodiversity [4]
Health [14]
Natural Resources [16]
Public [3]
International [27]
Source: Green/NYT [51], 08/02/2012

"Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14" [52]

"KAMPALA, Uganda -- Uganda's Ministry of Health is advising residents to avoid eating dead animals especially monkeys, after declaring an outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus that has killed 14 people."

Health [14]
Wildlife [26]
Public [3]
Africa [53]
Source: ENS [54], 07/31/2012

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