"Great Wall of Lights: China's Sea Power On Darwin's Doorstep"
"It’s 3 a.m., and after five days plying through the high seas, the Ocean Warrior is surrounded by an atoll of blazing lights that overtakes the nighttime sky."
Source: AP, 10/04/2021
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"An 'Attack On American Cities' Is Freezing Climate Action In Its Tracks"
"The natural gas industry was losing in cities across the US. Then came an obscure partisan tactic called preemption."
Source: Vox, 10/04/2021
Op-Ed: "Migration Will Soon Be The Biggest Climate Challenge Of Our Time"
As heat, rising seas and drought render swaths of the planet uninhabitable, millions, if not billions of people may eventually have to relocate to terrain in the latitudes best suited to survival. The toughest challenge that lies before us isn’t reducing emissions, it’s relocating people. Neither the IPCC nor any other agency is currently empowered to address this fundamental question of human geography."
Source: Financial Times, 10/04/2021
Pushed To The Edge, La. Tribe Wonder Where To Go After Ida
"More than a month after Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm, battered Louisiana's coast, Roy and Annie Parfait still can't go home. The Native couple, elders of the Houma tribe, are staying with family while they wait to see if federal money comes through to help them repair their roof in Dulac."
Source: NPR, 10/04/2021
Ariz. Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi
"The tribe has survived for more than a thousand years in the arid mesas. The megadrought gripping the Southwest is testing that resilience."
Source: NYTimes, 10/04/2021
"Manchin Clashes With Fellow Democrats Over Fossil-Fuel Demands"
"Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is insisting that natural gas be allowed to have a central role in President Biden’s clean energy agenda, which puts him on a collision course with Democratic lawmakers who worry he will have the power to water down what they see as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address climate change."
Source: The Hill, 10/04/2021
"Crews Race To Limit Damage From Major California Oil Spill"
"Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly Sunday to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, caused by a suspected leak in an underwater pipeline that fouled the sands of famed Huntington Beach and could keep the beaches there closed for weeks or longer."
Source: AP, 10/04/2021
Science Seminar for Journalists: The Story Behind Marine Heat Waves
Climate change-driven marine heat waves are happening more frequently, devastating ecosystems and threatening livelihoods. Metcalf Institute will explore the rapidly evolving science of marine heat waves at two virtual seminars for journalists on November 5 and 12, 2021, via Zoom.
The Potential of Artificial Ocean Upwelling and Downwelling in CDR
This webinar, co-hosted by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy and the Environmental Policy & Culture Program, will examine the prospects for two potential ocean-based carbon removal approaches, artificial ocean upwelling and downwelling, to effectuate large-scale sequestration of carbon dioxide. 5 p.m. ET.
Wild Deep Yonder: Covering Piracy, Overfishing, Mining and Other Crises Above and Below the Surface
Join National Geographic's Douglas Main for a Kavli Conversation, hosted by NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, with award-winning investigative reporter Ian Urbina, formerly of the New York Times, and marine biologist/author Helen Scales. 6:30-8:00 p.m. ET. Free registration required.
