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"New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [1]

"Researchers are developing ways to predict how much land will burn out West and where ocean heat waves will occur up to a year in advance".

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Science [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [8], 06/28/2022
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"UN Head Declares ‘Ocean Emergency’ As Global Leaders Gather In Lisbon" [9]

"The UN secretary general has declared that the world is in the middle of an “ocean emergency”, and urged governments to do more to restore ocean health."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
International [13]
Source: Guardian [14], 06/28/2022
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How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [15]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

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Activism [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [22]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Forests [23]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Policy [27]
Pollution [12]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [28]
Water & Oceans [5]
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National (U.S.) [7]
California [29]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
International [13]
Africa [32]
Asia [33]
Australia & Oceania [34]
South America [35]
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Amid Heat Waves, Data on Heat Deaths Deadly Serious [36]

Heat waves, heat domes … heat deaths. The reality of climate change means a grim uptick in fatalities, more so from excess heat than any other kind of extreme weather event. Reporter’s Toolbox points to useful data sources for covering the crisis, with insights on how to go behind the numbers to find the stories of those most vulnerable to heat’s effects.

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Reporters Toolbox [37]
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Climate Change [3]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [10]
Health [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
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"Family, Friends Mourn British Journalist Killed In Brazil" [42]

"Gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, friends and relatives paid their final respects on Sunday to British journalist Dom Phillips, killed in the Brazilian Amazon while researching for a book about how to save the world’s largest rainforest."

Activism [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [40]
Public [6]
South America [35]
Source: AP [43], 06/27/2022
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"Drought And Bark Beetles Are Killing The Oldest Trees On Earth" [44]

"Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning gnarled limbs for the invaders that threaten the lives of some of the world’s oldest trees."

Climate Change [3]
Forests [23]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
California [29]
Source: LA Times [45], 06/27/2022
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"New Colombian President Pledges To Protect Rainforest" [46]

"Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Justice [21]
Forests [23]
Public [6]
South America [35]
Source: AP [47], 06/27/2022
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"‘Biblical’ Insect Swarms Spur Oregon Push To Fight Pests" [48]

"Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [38]
Wildlife [49]
Public [6]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
Source: AP [51], 06/27/2022
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"These Clergy Are Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Climate" [52]

"In an effort launched last year, a Rabbi and a Protestant minister offer clergy suggestions for how to engage their congregations in helping to solve the climate crisis."

Climate Change [3]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [28]
Public [6]
International [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [53], 06/27/2022
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"DOE Keeps Hiring Oil Industry Public Relations Firm" [54]

"The Department of Energy retained a global public relations firm with longstanding fossil fuel ties, continuing a practice that ramped up during the Trump administration."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [55]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [40]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [56], 06/27/2022
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