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Author Shares Unorthodox Look at the Ways of Water [1]

How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”

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Climate Change [3]
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Water & Oceans [6]
Wildlife [7]
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National (U.S.) [8]
California [9]
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Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
International [13]
Canada [14]
Africa [15]
Asia [16]
Europe [17]
Middle East [18]
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November 30, 2023

DEADLINE: 4th World Media Lab [21]

This year-long, expenses-paid fellowship is for emerging and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers, offering artist development workshops (and $10,000 grant), training and networking at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival. Apply by Nov 30, 2023.

Workshops and Fellowships [22]
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Canada [14]

#SEJSpotlight: Spoorthy Raman, Freelance Journalist [25]

#SEJSpotlight graphic for Spoorthy Raman

 

Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [26]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [27]
Diversity [23]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [28]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Forests [30]
Journalism & Media [24]
Natural Resources [5]
Science [31]
Water & Oceans [6]
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B.C. First Nations Appeal Court Ruling In Attempt To Restore The Nechako R. [32]

"Saik’uz and Stellat’en First Nations have been fighting for the health of the watershed for over a decade. A dam operated by Rio Tinto Alcan and regulated by the province continues to devastate sturgeon and salmon populations".

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Justice [28]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: The Narwhal [34], 08/31/2022
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"Maine Supreme Court Revives Contentious Transmission Project" [35]

"Maine’s highest court ruled today that a 2021 ballot initiative seeking to block construction of a 145-mile transmission line was unconstitutional, potentially reviving efforts to build a high-profile project that would carry Canadian hydropower to New England."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Infrastructure [37]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Canada [14]
Source: E&E News [40], 08/31/2022
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"Why It’s Taken Decades To Clean Up Waste From A Troubled Mine In B.C. [41]

"The closed Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C. has been leaching untreated waste into a salmon-bearing river since the 1950s. The province may finally start cleaning it up".

Fish & Fisheries [29]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: The Narwhal [43], 08/24/2022
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Canada Oil Sands Sector Aims To Release Treated Tailings Water Into River [44]

"Canada's oil sands mining industry on Thursday outlined proposals to release treated water from tailings ponds into northern Alberta's Athabasca River, a move environmental groups say risks damaging one of the world's largest freshwater deltas."

Energy & Fuel [36]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: Reuters [45], 08/19/2022
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"Attacks On Canadian Media Reveal Dark Red Cracks In Our Democracy" [46]

"Canada ranks as satisfactory on a global list of press freedom. Is that something to be proud of?"

Journalism & Media [24]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: The Tyee [47], 08/17/2022
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British Columbia: "Court Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Conservationists" [48]

"A B.C. environmental group that tested a provincial law intended to protect freedom of speech and prevent frivolous lawsuits from bogging down the courts has won."

Activism [49]
Environmental Politics [50]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: The Narwhal [51], 08/11/2022
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Romance, Politics, and Ecological Damage: Sable Island’s Wild Horses [52]

"What is it that’s so compelling about the wild horses of Sable Island? Maybe it’s that they turn up where horses have no right to be—grazing on a sand dune, or standing on a broad beach beside the speckled form of a gray seal...."

Biodiversity [33]
Water & Oceans [6]
Wildlife [7]
Public [20]
Canada [14]
Source: Hakai [53], 08/09/2022
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