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"Western Water: Court Limits Landmark Tribal Groundwater Case" [1]

"A California court has sided with a Southern California water district in a high-stakes case with a Native American tribe over access to groundwater."

Laws & Regulations [2]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
California [6]
Source: Greenwire [7], 04/25/2019
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Global Wealth Gap Would Be Smaller Today Without Climate Change: Study [8]

"Climate change creates winners and losers. Norway is among the winners; Nigeria among the losers."

Climate Change [9]
Economy & Business [10]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
International [11]
Source: NY Times [12], 04/23/2019
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Poor Alabama Towns Struggle Under Stench Of Toxic Landfills [13]

"Imports of waste from across the country have turned parts of the state into ‘a toilet bowl’ – and residents are fighting back"

Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
People & Population [3]
Waste [16]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [18], 04/19/2019
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New Records Put Bernhardt Under Fresh Scrutiny Over Casino Row [19]

"The new interior secretary, David Bernhardt, met with a lawyer for a Native American tribe that is linked to the political scandal haunting Bernhardt’s predecessor, according to internal agency records."

Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [2]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Guardian [21], 04/18/2019
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Unfolding Mystery Yields Complex Characters, Key Climate Clues [22]

The tale of a failing nation’s climate woes is revealed in a cache of scientific notes hidden in a London attic after their author goes missing. The gripping mystery was unraveled with award-winning skill by journalist Laura Heaton, in our latest “Inside Story” Q&A. Read on and find out the story’s significance for climate adaptation.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Inside Story [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [24]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [20]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [3]
Region: 
International [11]
Africa [27]
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Public [5]
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"Pace of Bering Sea Changes Startles Scientists" [28]

"The Yupik Eskimo village of Kotlik on Alaska’s northwest coast relies on a cold, hard blanket of sea ice to protect homes from vicious winter Bering Sea storms."

Climate Change [9]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Alaska and Hawaii [29]
Source: AP [30], 04/15/2019
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"Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change" [31]

"CORQUÍN, Honduras — The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt."

Agriculture [24]
Climate Change [9]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
Central America & the Caribbean [32]
Source: NY Times [33], 04/15/2019
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"The Renegade Nuns Who Took On a Pipeline" [34]

"In 2015, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a congregation of nuns, learned that an energy company planned to build a pipeline on their land. So they started a resistance movement."

Activism [35]
Energy & Fuel [36]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: New Yorker [37], 04/11/2019
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"I Don’t Want to Stay Here’: Half a Million Live in Flood Zones" [38]

"When a deadly rainstorm unloaded on Houston in 2016, Sharobin White’s apartment complex flooded in up to six feet of water. She sent her toddler and 6-year-old to safety on an air mattress, but her family lost nearly everything, including their car."

Climate Change [9]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [10]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NY Times [39], 04/11/2019
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From Bridges To Air, EPA Scientists Price Out Cost Of Climate Change [40]

"By the end of the century, the manifold consequences of unchecked climate change will cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency."

Climate Change [9]
Environmental Politics [15]
Environmental Studies [41]
People & Population [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: LA Times [42], 04/10/2019
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