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Australia Unveils Weapons Of Mouse Destruction To Tackle Rodent ‘Plague’ [1]

"Farmers and rural residents say they’re at their wits end battling the growing tide of mice."

"The Australian state of New South Wales will spend $38.5 million to send a plague of mice eating their way across farms and invading homes “into oblivion,” a move hailed by farmers and rural residents who say they’re at their wits end with a growing tide of rodents.

Agriculture [2]
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Wildlife [4]
Public [5]
Australia & Oceania [6]
Source: HuffPost [7], 05/17/2021
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"Chainsaw Massacre: Tree Poaching Hits Canada Amid Lumber Shortage" [8]

"Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally cut down, leaving one stump with a face carved into it".

Economy & Business [9]
Forests [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [5]
Canada [13]
Source: Guardian [14], 05/17/2021
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$2 Billion Project Would Help Save Louisiana Coast - And Stoke Flooding [15]

"In lower Plaquemines Parish, some fear they are river diversion's 'collateral damage'".

Climate Change [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [19], 05/17/2021
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DFO Altered Report To Downplay Risks To Imperilled Steelhead: Docs [20]

"Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead, documents obtained by the B.C. Wildlife Federation through access to information legislation reveal."

Environmental Politics [21]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Science [23]
Public [5]
Canada [13]
Source: The Narwhal [24], 05/17/2021
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"Hurricane Season Spurs Hog Waste Worries In North Carolina" [25]

"As experts predict an active storm season, critics say the hog industry has done little to change after recent hurricanes overwhelmed waste lagoons."

Agriculture [2]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Justice [28]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [5]
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Source: EHN [30], 05/17/2021
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Designed For Disaster: These Homes Can Withstand A Category 5 Hurricane [31]

"As climate change fuels more intense storms, Deltec and other companies build hurricane-proof homes".

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [26]
Infrastructure [32]
Technology [33]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Washington Post [35], 05/17/2021
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EPA Orders Virgin Islands Refinery To Shut Down, Cites ‘Imminent’ Threat [36]

"The St. Croix oil refinery, senior EPA official said, is ‘not how a normal refinery operates’"

Air [37]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Pollution [29]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Central America & the Caribbean [39]
Source: Washington Post [40], 05/17/2021
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Newburgh, N.Y., Wants Biden's Help To Dig Up Lead Water Pipes [41]

"Even small communities like Newburgh, N.Y., need major federal funds to protect children from what the president calls ‘a clear and present danger’ "

Environmental Health [27]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: Washington Post [42], 05/17/2021
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"Scientists Urge Restoration Of Federal Gray Wolf Protections" [43]

"A group of scientists urged the Biden administration Thursday to restore legal protections for gray wolves, saying their removal earlier this year was premature and that states are allowing too many of the animals to be killed."

Biodiversity [3]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Wildlife [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: AP [44], 05/17/2021
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"Wild Horses Adopted Under a Federal Program Are Going to Slaughter" [45]

"Records show that some people who are paid $1,000 a head by the government to give legally protected mustangs “good homes” are sending the horses to auction once they get the money."

Wildlife [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: NYTimes [46], 05/17/2021
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