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"Native American Tribe Gets Federal Funds to Flee Rising Seas" [1]

"In a disappearing section of Louisiana coastline, the people who call Isle De Jean Charles home are moving to save their community and culture."

Climate Change [2]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [5]
Source: InsideClimate News [6], 03/16/2016
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As Climate Heats Up, Arctic Residents Struggle To Keep Their Homes [7]

"In the spring, after the permafrost thaws and the ground settles, Wilson Andrew Sr takes a wrench to the metal pilings that hold up the foundation of his house in Atmautluak, Alaska, and makes it level again. He cranks the screws until the foundation flattens out, level with the ground. At least for now."

Climate Change [2]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
Alaska and Hawaii [8]
Source: Guardian [9], 03/16/2016
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"AP Poll: Americans Divided On Safety Of US Drinking Water" [10]

"When it comes to water, only about half of Americans are very confident in the safety of what's flowing from their tap, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll, which found that trust is even weaker among minorities and people with lower incomes."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [16], 03/07/2016
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"Tribe Says Drilling Project Would Have 'Heartbreaking' Consequences" [17]

"A few miles outside Glacier National Park in northwest Montana is land known as the Badger-Two Medicine, the ancestral home of the Blackfeet tribe. But it's also the site of 18 oil and gas development leases, and an energy company is heading to federal court March 10 to fight for the right to drill there after decades of delay."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Source: NPR [21], 03/04/2016
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"Honduras: Environmentalist Berta Caceres Shot Dead" [22]

"Honduran environmentalist leader and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Berta Caceres has been shot dead at her home in the town of La Esperanza. Caceres was killed early on Thursday by two assailants who broke into her home, a member of her group, the Indian Council of People's Organizations of Honduras, said."

Activism [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
Central America & the Caribbean [24]
Source: Aljazeera [25], 03/04/2016
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"Bitter Contract Dispute Extends to Who Owns Yosemite Names" [26]

"Marilyn and Jack Whitcher have been regular visitors to the glacier-carved valley of Yosemite National Park since they were dating more than five decades ago. This trip was different."

Economy & Business [27]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [28]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NY Times [29], 03/03/2016
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"Louisiana Tribe Officially Becomes America's First Climate Refugees" [30]

"French-speaking Indians who live deep in Louisiana bayou, some 50 miles south of New Orleans, became the United States' first official climate refugees last week when the federal government awarded them $48 million to relocate."

Climate Change [2]
People & Population [3]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [5]
Source: Weather Channel [31], 02/29/2016
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"Obama Bans US Imports of Slave-Produced Goods" [32]

"Federal officials are preparing to enforce an 86-year-old ban on importing goods made by children or slaves under new provisions of a law signed by President Barack Obama."

Fish & Fisheries [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [34], 02/26/2016
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March 18, 2016

DEADLINE: IJNR's Detroit Water, Energy & Emissions Workshop [35]

Journalists, apply by Mar 18 for IJNR's two-day workshop (Apr 4 and 5, 2016) which will focus on water quality and infrastructure, impacts of climate change, energy development and environmental justice in the Great Lakes region. $25 fee covers all lodging and meals.

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Climate Change [2]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]

Sami Reindeer Herders Battle To Keep Arctic Culture [40]

"Long winters in -30C temperatures they can handle, but now Norway’s indigenous people are fighting to protect ancient reindeer grazing land from development".

People & Population [3]
Public [4]
Antarctica & Arctic [41]
Source: Guardian [42], 02/22/2016
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