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‘A Matter Of Life And Death’: How Disaster Response Endangers US Farmworkers [1]

"When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last summer, a tree fell straight through a trailer occupied by a migrant-farmworker family in Hamilton County. They couldn’t afford to move, even temporarily, so the family of six just picked up the things they could salvage and continued to live around the rotting tree."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Source: Grist [11], 08/05/2024
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Belgian and Swiss Triathletes Fall Ill Following Race In River Seine [12]

"Belgium has withdrawn from the mixed relay triathlon race on Monday and Switzerland has had to mix up its roster after athletes from both countries fell ill following the initial triathlon races last week."

Environmental Health [4]
Journalism & Media [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Europe [15]
Source: CNN [16], 08/05/2024
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"ABC Host Reportedly Received Death Threats After Trump Interview" [17]

"ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming."

Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [20], 08/05/2024
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"Incarcerated People Are Drinking Unsafe Water in Illinois State Prisons" [21]

"Brian Harrington entered the Illinois Department of Corrections system in 2007 at age 14, sentenced to 25 years in prison. ... He remembers the toilet water being brown—and sometimes the drinking water, too. He recalls the tap water’s sewer smell and the black specks swirling, then settling, in his cup."

Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [23]
Source: Sierra [24], 08/05/2024
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"How China Bought Its Way Into National Fishing Grounds Around The World" [25]

"On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an Argentine coast guard patrol and ordered over the radio to halt, the ship fled the scene. The Argentinians gave chase and fired warning shots. Then the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 tried to ram the coast guard cutter, prompting it to open fire and sink the Chinese ship."

Biodiversity [26]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Military [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
International [30]
Asia [31]
South America [32]
Source: LA Times [33], 08/05/2024
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Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ Larger Than Average, Larger Than Expected For 2024: NOAA [34]

"Due largely to lagging prevention efforts in the Midwest, the low-oxygen area of the Gulf of Mexico is larger than expected this year, prompting fish and shrimp to flee nearly 4 million acres of habitat and killing off bottom-dwelling species."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [35]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Source: The Lens [36], 08/05/2024
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"Agency Votes to Replace Official Accused of Rushing Start of Seabed Mining" [37]

"The international agency charged with regulating seabed mining worldwide voted on Friday to replace its top executive, after accusations that the British lawyer running the agency was too closely aligned with the mining industry."

Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [35]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [18]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [39], 08/05/2024
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Hurricane Debby To Bring Catastrophic Rains, Flooding To FL, GA, SC [40]

"The center of Hurricane Debby is expected to reach the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday bringing potential record-setting rains, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it moves slowly across the northern part of the state before stalling over the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [41]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [10]
Source: AP [42], 08/05/2024
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#SEJSpotlight: Wahid Bhat, Environmental Editor, Ground Report [43]

Meet SEJ member Wahid Bhat! Wahid is an environmental editor at Ground Report and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. His work focuses on covering environmental and climate change issues, such as extreme weather events, pollution and water.

Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [13]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
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Up for a Challenge — Fifty Environmental Journalists on the Profession and Its Future [44]

Environmental journalists tend to be intrepid and creative individuals who will fight to work their beat against all odds. That’s one of the findings of a journalism educator who is studying the rise of environmental journalism as a news priority. In this EJ Academy, Suzannah Evans Comfort talks about key takeaways from her research – and her next big question.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ Academy [45]
Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Studies [46]
Journalism & Media [13]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
Visibility: 
Public [8]
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