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“You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism” [1]

It’s been a half-century since the first Earth Day in 1970 and a new book from an old hand catalogues the advances and the setbacks in the decades since. BookShelf contributor Francesca Lyman reviews “You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism,” and explores how a long view from a veteran environmentalist informs the field of environmental reporting.

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Activism [3]
Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [11]
Policy [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
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National (U.S.) [16]
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Public [17]
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Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story [18]

The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types: 
FEJ StoryLog [19]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Environmental Health [20]
Journalism & Media [8]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [21]
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Public [17]
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'We Lost Everything:' Central Americans Flee North After 2 Hurricanes [22]

"It took Luis Salgado years of manual labor to save enough money to open a small fresh produce store, so when torrential floods swept away $1,500 worth of apples, bananas and other fruits, he decided there was no longer a future for him in Honduras."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [23]
People & Population [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mexico [24]
Central America & the Caribbean [25]
Source: Reuters [26], 12/04/2020
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"Wildfire Smoke Is Poisoning California’s Kids. Some Pay a Higher Price" [27]

"The fires sweeping across millions of acres in California aren’t just incinerating trees and houses. They’re also filling the lungs of California’s children with smoke, with potentially grave effects over the course of their lives."

Air [4]
Climate Change [5]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [28]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [29], 11/30/2020
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"Climate Justice Fund Counters 'Centuries Of Underinvestment'" [30]

"Letty Martinez, Shiny Flanary and Xochitl Garnica spent the spring and summer taming weeds and planting crops on their new 2-acre urban farming collective, which offers free produce to low-income customers. Now, they're hoping to add a greenhouse and lighting powered by solar panels."

Agriculture [31]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [7]
People & Population [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NPR [32], 11/25/2020
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"An Ancient People With A Modern Climate Plan" [33]

"After a brutal storm in 2006, the Swinomish tribe off the coast of Washington state launched a strategy to deal with the effects of a warming planet. Now, 50 other native tribes have followed suit."

Climate Change [5]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 11/25/2020
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"Punishing Hurricanes To Spur More Central American Migration" [37]

"At a shelter in this northern Honduran city, Lilian Gabriela Santos Sarmiento says back-to-back hurricanes that hit with devastating fury this month have overturned her life. Her home in what was once a pretty neighborhood in nearby La Lima was destroyed by flooding."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [23]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Central America & the Caribbean [25]
Source: AP [38], 11/25/2020
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"As They Repair Iota's Damage, Colombian Survivors Vow To Rebuild" [39]

"When Category 5 Hurricane Iota roared over the small Colombian island of Providencia in the early hours of Monday morning, Yeisler Chamorro and his wife hunkered down underneath a mattress in their bedroom."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [23]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [17]
Central America & the Caribbean [25]
Source: Reuters [40], 11/23/2020
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Iota Lands With Catastrophic Wind and Floods Near Where Eta Hit [41]

"Hurricane Iota has barreled into a Central America still recovering from Eta, bringing with it the possibility of "life-threatening" flooding, catastrophic winds and mudslides."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [23]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [17]
Central America & the Caribbean [25]
Source: CNN [42], 11/17/2020
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Libro Periodismo Ambiental en América Latina y el Caribe: Botiquín de Superación [43]

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Escrito por Talli Nauman, una fundadora de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas Ambientales, con el apoyo del International Center for Journalists, 2019. El libro está disponible a la venta en la Rempa.

SEJ Espanol [44]
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People & Population [11]
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