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Energy Secretary Set To Announce Fusion Energy "Breakthrough" [1]

"Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a “major scientific breakthrough” Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars."

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Source: AP [7], 12/13/2022
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"U.S. To Announce Fusion Energy ‘Breakthrough’" [8]

"Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go."

Climate Change [9]
Energy & Fuel [2]
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Technology [4]
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Source: Washington Post [10], 12/12/2022
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New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27 [11]

A new way for journalists to get more accurate numbers on global greenhouse gas emissions was introduced by former Vice President Al Gore at the recent United Nations’ climate change gathering in Egypt. Reporter’s Toolbox looks under the hood of Climate Trace, which is the result of work by more than 100 collaborators and compiles data from some 300 specialized satellites and 11,000 sensors.

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"EPA, Watchdog Clash Over Water Cyberthreats" [15]

"EPA and the agency’s inspector general are at odds over whether federal oversight is sufficient to ensure U.S. water operators are protected against hackers and other saboteurs."

Consumer [16]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Technology [4]
Water & Oceans [23]
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National (U.S.) [6]
Source: E&E News [24], 11/22/2022
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New Kolbert Volume Addresses Value of Human Efforts To Control Nature [25]

When engineers reversed the Chicago River, they also upended a hydrologic system that years later required electrification to repel an invasive species threatening a major fishery. This is but one example from the latest book by New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert of the unintended consequences of human actions to dominate nature that may solve one problem only to create another. BookShelf contributor Gary Wilson has a review.

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Climate Change [9]
Environmental Health [18]
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Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [35]

As the economic impacts of climate change intensify, reporting on how individuals are affected, particularly in the Global South, is lagging. Veteran journalist Christine Spolar at The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting details a new initiative to encourage journalists to fill this gap. The story of recent grantees Bhasker Tripathi and Susan Schulman, who have tracked job losses and migrations tied to climate change in India and Iraq.

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Activism [37]
Agriculture [38]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [17]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [19]
Food [41]
Government [42]
Health [43]
Journalism & Media [13]
People & Population [44]
Policy [30]
Technology [4]
Water & Oceans [23]
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National (U.S.) [6]
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"A New Tool To Prevent Malaria Shows Promise: Antibody Drugs" [48]

"A single dose of an antibody drug provided strong protection against malaria infections during the six-month rainy season in Mali, an international team of researchers announced Monday. "

Environmental Health [18]
Technology [4]
Public [5]
International [14]
Source: Washington Post [49], 11/01/2022
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"Can Floating Turbines Harvest The World's Wind?" [50]

"Ten miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland, five turbines tower over the North Sea. Each is as tall as the giant towers of Canary Wharf in London's docklands. Kincardine is the world's largest floating wind farm."

Climate Change [9]
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Technology [4]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [5]
International [14]
Source: BBC News [51], 10/24/2022
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"How A Transformer Shortage Threatens The Grid" [52]

"ROANOKE, Va. — A high-voltage grid transformer as big as a railroad boxcar sits on the loading dock of a factory here, ready to push power across transmission lines as an indispensable part of the nation’s electric grid."

Climate Change [9]
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Technology [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: E&E News [53], 10/21/2022
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"EPA To Further Slash Emissions From Climate Super-Pollutants" [54]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Thursday to further cut emissions of climate super-pollutants widely used in air conditioning and refrigeration, the latest step in the United States’ effort to phase down the potent greenhouse gases."

Air [55]
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Source: Washington Post [57], 10/21/2022
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