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Pushed To The Edge, La. Tribe Wonder Where To Go After Ida [1]

"More than a month after Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm, battered Louisiana's coast, Roy and Annie Parfait still can't go home. The Native couple, elders of the Houma tribe, are staying with family while they wait to see if federal money comes through to help them repair their roof in Dulac."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: NPR [9], 10/04/2021
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Ariz. Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi [10]

"The tribe has survived for more than a thousand years in the arid mesas. The megadrought gripping the Southwest is testing that resilience."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [11]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: NYTimes [13], 10/04/2021
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"Deportations Of Haitians Spark Concerns Over Environmental Refugees" [14]

"The swell of Haitian migrants attempting to come to the U.S. shows the country needs a plan to help environmental refugees, advocates say, while warning that the swift deportation of those camped in Texas is indicative of how climate migrants could be treated in the years to come."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [11]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [15]
Source: The Hill [16], 10/01/2021
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Young Climate Activists Join Greta Thunberg For Major Strikes Worldwide [17]

"Young people around the world spilled into streets, city squares and local parks on Friday, following the call of Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, for the first big, in-person, coordinated climate protests since the start of the coronavirus pandemic."

Activism [18]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [20]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [15]
Source: Washington Post [21], 09/27/2021
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Children Face More Climate Disasters Than Their Grandparents: Research [22]

"People born today will suffer many times more extreme heatwaves and other climate disasters over their lifetimes than their grandparents, research has shown. The study is the first to assess the contrasting experience of climate extremes by different age groups and starkly highlights the intergenerational injustice posed by the climate crisis."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [11]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [15]
Source: Guardian [23], 09/27/2021
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Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [24]

Two outstanding features — one on air pollution from a local coke plant in Pennsylvania, another on deaths from a shellfish toxin in Alaska, and both focused on public health, neglected communities and environmental justice — are the subject of the new Inside Story Q&A. Society of Environmental Journalists’ award-winners Nancy Averett and Zoya Teirstein share their reporting insights and advice.

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Air [26]
Climate Change [2]
Diversity [27]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Studies [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Food [31]
Health [32]
Journalism & Media [33]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [34]
Science [35]
Water & Oceans [6]
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National (U.S.) [36]
Alaska and Hawaii [37]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
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"After Ida, U.S. Cities Eye More Equal Resilience Plans" [39]

"New York and other U.S. cities are seeking to ensure their climate mitigation plans protect their most vulnerable communities".

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Infrastructure [40]
People & Population [5]
Planning & Growth [41]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [42], 09/22/2021
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"Turkey’s Erdogan: Refugee Crisis From Climate Change Coming" [43]

"Presaging “hundreds of millions” of climate change refugees, Turkey’s president said Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly that the world needs to find a way to contend with its existing refugees who are fleeing conflict."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [15]
Source: AP [44], 09/22/2021
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"Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers" [45]

"As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers."

Agriculture [46]
Air [26]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [47]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [34]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 09/22/2021
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Extinction of Indigenous Languages Harms Knowledge Of Medicinal Plants [49]

"A study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that a large proportion of existing medicinal plant knowledge is linked to threatened Indigenous languages. In a regional study on the Amazon, New Guinea and North America, researchers concluded that 75% of medicinal plant uses are known in only one language."

Biodiversity [50]
Environmental Health [19]
Natural Resources [4]
People & Population [5]
Science [35]
Public [7]
International [15]
Source: Mongabay [51], 09/21/2021
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