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National Atlas Is a Trove for Environmental Journalism Projects [1]

Because it is digital, the Atlas can be overlaid with many kinds of information: data on abandoned mines, coalfields, butterflies, aquifers, or invasive plants — to mention only a few examples. And because scale is variable, you can zoom in or out to customize it to your story and audience.

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Where's That Meat From? One Problem with Trade Treaties [5]

Do consumers have a right to know where their food comes from? What if there is a federal law decreeing that they have that right? Not anymore. None of that matters. International trade treaties — nowadays often negotiated in secret — trump United States law aimed at protecting consumers.

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Agriculture [6]
Economy & Business [7]
Food [8]
Health [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
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Wyoming Data Trespass Law Faces Court Test [11]

Federal District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl on December 28, 2015, ruled that a lawsuit filed by journalism and environmental groups challenging the constitutionality of Wyoming's law could continue. The state had moved to dismiss the suit.

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Laws & Regulations [10]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [12]
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Sanders Mocks Trump's Contention That Chinese Created Climate Change [13]

"Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who’s repeatedly accused Donald Trump of being a divisive “demagogue,” opened a new line of attack Monday night on the Republican front-runner: lampooning his views on climate change."

Climate Change [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [16]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Wash Post [18], 01/06/2016
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"U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like Zika" [19]

"Tropical diseases — some of them never before seen in the United States — are marching northward as climate change lets mosquitoes and ticks expand their ranges."

Climate Change [14]
Environmental Health [20]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NY Times [21], 01/06/2016
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Solar Stoves Could Save 4 Million Lives a Year [22]

"Cooking with energy from the sun -- a technique featured last month in an episode of "Top Chef" -- could soon put a major dent in what some experts call the world's greatest environmental health issue."

Pollution [23]
Public [4]
International [24]
Source: Huffington Post [25], 01/06/2016
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"Poll: 70 Percent Believe In Climate Change" [26]

"A new survey finds that 70 percent of Americans believe the climate is changing."

Climate Change [14]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [27], 01/06/2016
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"Earth Is 'Experiencing A Global Warming Spurt'" [28]

"Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming spurt, following a global warming slowdown that lasted about 15 years."

Climate Change [14]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [4]
International [24]
Source: Climate Central [30], 01/06/2016
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"Big Questions for N.J. on Crude Oil Exports" [31]

"After the oil industry won a victory by persuading Congress to end a 40-year-old ban on the export of crude, it is far from clear what the impact will be on oil-filled tanker trains traveling through New Jersey."

Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Transportation [34]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bergen Record [35], 01/06/2016
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"Big Oil Braced for Global Warming While It Fought Regulations" [36]

"A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post."

Science [16]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: LA Times [37], 01/06/2016
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