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Oregon Wildfire Displaces 2,000 Residents As Blazes Flare Across West [1]

"Hand crews backed by water-dropping helicopters struggled on Thursday to suppress a huge wildfire that displaced roughly 2,000 residents in southern Oregon, the largest among dozens of blazes raging across the drought-stricken western United States."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Forests [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Reuters [8], 07/16/2021
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"Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry" [9]

"Acequias, the fabled irrigation ditches that are a cornerstone of New Mexican culture, have endured centuries of challenges. Can they survive the Southwest’s megadrought?"

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Infrastructure [11]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 07/13/2021
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As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty [16]

With heat waves driven by global warming pounding parts of the western United States this summer, environmental journalists mustn’t overlook the toll on especially vulnerable populations, among them disadvantaged groups, the elderly, those in low-income housing and more. The latest Issue Backgrounder helps reporters understand heat’s health effects, track heat-vulnerable populations and clarifies how communities can prepare and prevent the worst public health impacts.

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People & Population [5]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [23]
California [24]
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International [26]
Canada [27]
Europe [28]
Middle East [29]
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Reporters Reveal True Toll From Texas Winter Storm, Outages [30]

A reporting team at BuzzFeed used a powerful array of data analysis techniques to arrive at a disturbing conclusion about the wintery devastation in Texas — there were far more deaths than acknowledged. But their investigation didn’t stop there. They tracked down families of the deceased to understand the human toll and pressured government over its accountability. How they got the story for “The Graveyard Doesn’t Lie.”

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National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
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Tree Equity Score Offers Aid in Covering Urban Tree Issues [33]

Urban tree cover is no luxury, but rather an important environmental and public health necessity. And for years the lack of urban trees has harmed socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. To help report on tree cover in U.S. urban areas — and to track it against environmental justice measures — the latest Reporter’s Toolbox spotlights an extensive tree equity scoring database. 

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Environmental Health [35]
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Public [6]
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"Climate Change Is Making It Harder for Campers to Beat the Heat" [36]

"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 [12]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [37], 07/09/2021
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Madagascar Headed Toward Climate Change-Linked Famine It Did Not Create [38]

"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 [10]
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Food [39]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
Africa [40]
Source: Washington Post [41], 07/08/2021
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Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ [42]

"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 [43]
Chemicals [44]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [19]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [45]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [46]
Transportation [47]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 07/07/2021
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"Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By US Supreme Court Ruling" [49]

"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 [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [45]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [50], 07/07/2021
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"Inside The Pacheedaht Nation’s Stand On Fairy Creek Logging Blockades" [51]

"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".

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Public [6]
Canada [27]
Source: The Narwhal [54], 07/06/2021
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