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"The Monsoon Is Becoming More Extreme" [1]

"South Asia’s monsoon is inextricably linked, culturally and economically, to much of Asia. Climate change is making it increasingly violent and erratic."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
International [7]
Source: NYTimes [8], 10/05/2022
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After Fiona, Magdalen Islanders Say They're On 'Front Line' Of Climate Change [9]

"Isabelle Cormier spent the days after post-tropical storm Fiona picking through what could be salvaged of her family's 40-year-old cottage."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Canada [10]
Source: CBC News [11], 10/04/2022
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"Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There" [12]

"As Earth’s ice melts once more, heed these ancient tales of land lost to the sea."

"It wasn’t long after Henry David Inglis arrived on the island of Jersey, just northwest of France, that he heard the old story. Locals eagerly told the 19th-century Scottish travel writer how, in a bygone age, their island was much more substantial, and that folks used to walk to the French coast. The only hurdle to their journey was a river—one easily crossed using a short bridge.

Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [13]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Europe [14]
Source: Hakai [15], 10/04/2022
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"Biden To Storm-Hit Puerto Rico: 'All Of America's With You'" [16]

"President Joe Biden on Monday pledged more than $60 million in aid to help U.S. territory Puerto Rico and said more money was coming, as he sought to present a more compassionate image than his predecessor, Donald Trump, while surveying damage from Hurricane Fiona."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Politics [17]
Infrastructure [18]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 10/04/2022
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"Supreme Court Appears to Back EPA in WOTUS War" [22]

"The Supreme Court on Monday appeared reluctant to wrest wetlands permitting power from EPA in a dispute that had been expected to significantly narrow the scope of the Clean Water Act."

Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [23], 10/04/2022
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Chemicals Linked To Birth Defects Are Being Dumped In Pittsburgh Rivers [24]

"Chemicals linked to cancer and developmental harm are also released in large quantities into the city’s three rivers."

Chemicals [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: EHN [30], 10/03/2022
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"Pakistan Disease Outbreaks After Floods Spur Calls For Crisis Plan" [31]

"Pakistan is facing a disaster within a disaster as diseases spread rapidly and deaths mount following widespread deadly flooding - a crisis worsened by the country's weak health system and lack of emergency planning, medical experts warn."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Economy & Business [32]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [33]
Infrastructure [18]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Asia [34]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [35], 10/03/2022
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"Wetlands Protections at Stake in Supreme Court Arguments Monday" [36]

"The future of federal jurisdiction over waters and wetlands under the Clean Water Act hinges on a watershed US Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments Monday—the first case on the high court’s fall docket."
 

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [37], 10/03/2022
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On the Persistence of Ocean Plastics [38]

Concerns about seaborne plastic waste go back decades, but science writer Juli Berwald suggests that myths and disinformation about sources and solutions continue to cloud the waters. From lentil-sized nurdles to sprawling fishing nets, 200 million tons of plastic now fill the ocean and, for her, it has become evident that the ocean plastics story is really a land story. But will the newly signed international treaty on plastics offer relief?

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Activism [40]
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Chemicals [25]
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Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Studies [44]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Government [46]
Infrastructure [18]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [47]
Policy [48]
Pollution [28]
Science [49]
Technology [50]
Waste [51]
Water & Oceans [5]
Wildlife [52]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [53]
California [54]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [55]
Northwest (OR WA) [56]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [57]
International [7]
Mexico [58]
Africa [59]
Asia [34]
Europe [14]
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Public [6]
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Corps Plans Underwater Levee To Stem Saltwater in La. Drinking Water [60]

"Saltwater moving up the Mississippi River is threatening drinking water supplies in Plaquemines Parish, triggering a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to build an underwater levee in the channel."

Infrastructure [18]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Nola.com [61], 09/30/2022
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