Hunting Pirates Who Steal Millions of Tons of Fish From the Seas
"These criminal actors threaten fragile species, forcing an international coalition to track them down".
Source: Smithsonian, 08/25/2020
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How Maryland's Trash-Burning Bias Galvanized Activists in Baltimore
"Shashawnda Campbell became an environmental activist at 15, when she learned that a company had proposed building the country's largest waste-to-energy incinerator less than a mile from her high school, in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/25/2020
"How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering"
"In the 1930s, federal officials redlined these neighborhoods in Richmond, Va., marking them as risky investments because residents were Black. Today, they are some of the hottest parts of town in the summer, with few trees and an abundance of heat-trapping pavement."
Source: NYTimes, 08/25/2020
"Thousands Allowed To Bypass Environmental Rules In Pandemic"
"Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found."
Source: AP, 08/25/2020
"Climate Is Taking On a Growing Role for Voters, Research Suggests"
"The number of Americans who feel passionately about climate change is rising sharply, and the issue appears likely to play a more important role in this year’s election than ever before, a new survey shows."
Source: NYTimes, 08/25/2020
Dems’ Climate Plan Takes Aim At The Fossil Industry’s Political Power
"Senate Democrats are set to release a 200-page plan arguing that significant US climate action will require stripping the fossil fuel industry of its influence over the government and the public’s understanding of the crisis."
Source: Guardian, 08/25/2020
"British Apiarists Knew It All Along: Honey Is The Bee's Knees"
"When honey made headlines this week as a better treatment for coughs and colds than antibiotics, beekeepers sat smugly by. “I’ve been saying this for ages,” says Carly Hooper, who has 12 hives near her home in Fleet, Hampshire, and a honey-based business."
Source: Guardian, 08/24/2020
"The Dreaded Lanternfly, Scourge of Agriculture, Spreads in New Jersey"
"The insect poses a serious threat to American crops, particularly vineyards, and inspires creative backyard methods of eliminating them."
Source: NYTimes, 08/24/2020
Rio Tinto Execs Lose Bonuses After Destruction Of Aboriginal Caves
"Rio Tinto will cut the bonuses of three senior executives by a combined £3.8 million ($5 million) after the company blew up a 46,000-year old sacred indigenous site in Australia to expand an iron ore mine."
Source: CNN, 08/24/2020
"Infection Rates At Least 3.5 Times Higher for Native Americans"
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a COVID-19 infection rate 3.5 times than white people and younger Native people are more affected."
Source: Indian Country Today, 08/24/2020
