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
Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews
They’ve long been a staple of the news business. But now, with the pandemic continuing to keep journalists from their subjects, remote video interviews have become an essential tool. And even newbie video reporters can quickly learn the basics. Science video producer Eli Kintisch shares a quick eight-step remote video setup and some simple tricks of the trade, in this SEJournal how-to.
Trump Data Grab Threatens To Blind Nation’s Health System
Efforts to bury pandemic data is a story environmental journalists best keep an eye on, argues the new WatchDog opinion column. That’s partly because of the connection between the novel coronavirus and climate change, air pollution and environmental justice. But also because it echoes a deepening rejection of science that’s long been part of the environment beat.
Potentially Explosive Fertilizer Could Be Found in Your Community
Ammonium nitrate, the explosive agricultural fertilizer that blew up in Lebanon this month, killing dozens and severely damaging Beirut’s center, is stored by the thousands of tons all over the United States. But regulatory blindspots and secretive information policies mean few know exactly where. Backgrounder reviews the chemical’s oversight regime — and its gaps — and has ideas for reporting from your community.
"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
