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Insect Decline Poses Foundational Ecological Hazards [1]

Bugs may get a bad rap, but a serious possible global decline in their populations is making clearer what may be lost for ecosystems and human societies. Issue Backgrounder peers beneath the detritus to find what insects do, how we try to kill them and how they survive, and why it’s so hard to pin down the data around their shifting numbers.

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Biodiversity [3]
Chemicals [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Pollution [7]
Science [8]
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National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
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Public [11]
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"Record-Torching March Heat ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change" [12]

"On Friday, March 20, eight states set an all-time March heat record, and the U.S. national March heat record was set or tied for the third consecutive day"

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [14]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Studies [15]
People & Population [16]
Science [8]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [17], 03/23/2026
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"EPA Chief to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis" [18]

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the organization has announced."

Activism [19]
Climate Change [13]
Disasters [14]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Science [8]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [23], 03/23/2026
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Study Finds “Hot Spots” For Glyphosate And Cancer In Iowa, Midwest States [24]

"A new analysis links high use of the weed killer glyphosate to elevated rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), particularly in the Midwest, reinforcing years of research linking cancer to the weed killer made popular by Monsanto."

Agriculture [25]
Chemicals [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Health [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [7]
Science [8]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [29]
Source: The New Lede [30], 03/18/2026
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"Did Fake Comments Sink SoCal Clean Heat Rules? Advocates Want Answers." [31]

"Last year, Southern California’s air regulators rejected landmark rules that would have encouraged the switch from polluting gas heaters to electric heat pumps in the smoggiest region in the country. Now, environmental and public health advocates are pressing state and local officials to investigate whether opposition in the run-up to the decision was largely faked."

Air [32]
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [16]
Science [8]
Public [11]
California [33]
Source: Canary Media [34], 03/17/2026
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Admin Targeted NCAR Climate Lab in Effort to Free Trump Ally: Suit [35]

"The Trump administration has targeted a climate and weather research lab as retribution against Colorado officials for imprisoning a county clerk backed by the president who was convicted of helping election deniers meddle with voting equipment in 2020, a lawsuit filed Monday by the lab’s leadership alleged."

Climate Change [13]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [8]
Technology [36]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [37], 03/17/2026
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"RFK Jr.’s Advisers Had A Plan To Target Covid Shots. Then It Fell Apart." [38]

"A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some Republicans warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage the party in the midterms."

Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [8]
Technology [36]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [39], 03/12/2026
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State ‘Sound Science’ Bills Limit Environmental Regulations: Scientists [40]

"Bills in four states require state environmental regulations to show “direct causal link” to “manifest bodily harm,” not just increased risk of disease. Scientists say that’s all but impossible."

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [7]
Science [8]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 03/09/2026
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Tackling Air Pollution Should Be Part Of War On Cancer Rates: Scientists [42]

"Cutting air pollution should form part of government strategies to reduce cancer rates, the European Code Against Cancer has recommended."

Chemicals [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [7]
Science [8]
Technology [36]
Public [11]
International [10]
Source: Guardian [44], 03/09/2026
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Marsupials Thought Extinct For Millennia Discovered In New Guinea [45]

"Researchers led by the Australian scientist Tim Flannery have made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: that two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."

Biodiversity [3]
Science [8]
Wildlife [46]
Public [11]
Australia & Oceania [47]
Source: Guardian [48], 03/06/2026
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