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"Climate Change Is Making It Harder for Campers to Beat the Heat" [1]

"Burn bans, flashlight campfires, extreme heat and stronger rainstorms: Today’s campers are experiencing their summer fun against the backdrop of climate change."

Climate Change [2]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NYTimes [7], 07/09/2021
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Madagascar Headed Toward Climate Change-Linked Famine It Did Not Create [8]

"In Madagascar, hunger has already left people eating raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, even the very locusts that helped decimate crops. The southern part of the country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with the World Food Program warning that 1.14 million people are food-insecure and 400,000 people are headed toward starvation."

Agriculture [9]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [10]
Food [11]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Africa [12]
Source: Washington Post [13], 07/08/2021
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Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ [14]

"Boxed in by refineries, oil tanks, an interstate highway and a bridge under construction, the people are left in a hollowed-out neighborhood and a broken community."

Air [15]
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [18]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [21]
Transportation [22]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [24], 07/07/2021
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"Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By US Supreme Court Ruling" [25]

"The largest Native American reservation in the U.S. includes parts of three Arizona counties, all of which had different approaches to precinct voting in the 2020 general election."

Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [27], 07/07/2021
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"Inside The Pacheedaht Nation’s Stand On Fairy Creek Logging Blockades" [28]

"Catapulted into the spotlight amid B.C.’s new war in the woods, Pacheedaht First Nation is asserting its right to decide how resources on its territory, including old-growth forests, are managed".

Activism [29]
Environmental Justice [18]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Forests [31]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Canada [32]
Source: The Narwhal [33], 07/06/2021
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"Lytton, B.C., Evacuated As Mayor Says 'The Whole Town Is On Fire'" [34]

"A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [10]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Canada [32]
Source: CBC News [35], 07/01/2021
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A Black Family Farm Is Fighting Racism In Agriculture And Climate Change [36]

"A heavy snow was falling here in the Taconic Mountain Range outside Albany when Leah Penniman moved to the farm she bought with her husband. It was the day after Christmas, Penniman recalled, “and I cried.” They were not tears of joy."

Agriculture [9]
Climate Change [2]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [37], 06/29/2021
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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [38]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [39]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [29]
Disasters [10]
Economy & Business [40]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Health [41]
Journalism & Media [42]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [21]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [44]
Region: 
International [45]
Africa [12]
Asia [46]
Central America & the Caribbean [47]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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"Climate Change Threatens Age-Old Indigenous Food Systems, Says UN" [48]

"From the Arctic to the Amazon, the traditional food gathering techniques of indigenous communities are under threat from accelerating climate change and economic pressures, the United Nations said on Friday."

Agriculture [9]
Climate Change [2]
Food [11]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
International [45]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [49], 06/28/2021
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America’s First Filipino Settlement Is Vanishing Into The Sea [50]

"ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana — On a cold day in November 2019, two podcasters and a historian boarded a small boat on the edge of Louisiana’s Lake Borgne and drifted into the bayou. They were bound for St. Malo, the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Sailors from the Philippines, known as the Manila Men, settled there in the mid-19th century, decades before the Civil War."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [10]
Natural Resources [3]
People & Population [4]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: HuffPost [52], 06/25/2021
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