"How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration"
"Climate displacement is becoming one of the world’s most powerful — and destabilizing — geopolitical forces."
Source: NY Times Magazine, 04/19/2017
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"Coal Company Plans Huge Solar Farm On Strip Mine"
"An Eastern Kentucky coal mining company on Tuesday announced its plans to build what could become the state's largest solar farm on a reclaimed mountaintop strip mine, promising jobs for displaced coal miners and energy production."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 04/19/2017
"White House Meeting On Paris Climate Deal Postponed: Official"
"A White House meeting that was to help determine whether the United States should withdraw from the Paris climate accord has been postponed, an administration official said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 04/19/2017
"AP Investigation Shows Peru Backsliding On Illegal Logging"
"Never before had so much lumber been denied entry at a U.S. port on evidence that it was harvested illegally. Houston customs agents, acting on intelligence from their Peruvian counterparts, halted 1,770 metric tons of Amazon rainforest wood — enough to cover three football fields."
Source: AP, 04/19/2017
Giraffes Must Be Listed As Endangered, Conservationists Tell US
"Conservationists have lodged a formal request for the US government to list giraffes as endangered in a bid to prevent what they call the “silent extinction” of the world’s tallest land animal."
Source: Guardian, 04/19/2017
"Why The Next Flu Medicine Could Come From Frog Mucus"
"What’s more amazing than kissing a frog and getting a handsome prince? How about scraping off a bit of the mucus layer that covers his skin and finding in it a potent weapon against influenza?"
Source: LA Times, 04/19/2017
Climate Activists Plot How to Turn Anti-Trump Rage Into Anti-Trump Votes
"A big march in Washington this month will get headlines, but the real action, green groups believe, needs to make waves on election days."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/19/2017
"Flint Moves To Keep Detroit Water Amid Recovery"
"Gov. Rick Snyder praised the city of Flint’s plan to sign a long-term deal with Detroit's water system after the city's departure from it four years ago set in motion one of the nation’s worst drinking water crises."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 04/19/2017
Forest Defenders Conference
The meeting, in Oxford, UK, will feature presentations from front line environmental defenders, sharing their experiences of threats, physical violence or criminalisation, and we aim to bring together a wide range of expertise – including security specialists, environmental and human rights groups, researchers, funders, media representatives and lawyers to share their work, and develop strategies to address the increasing levels of violence against environmental and land defenders.
"EPA Considers Repealing Two Obama Air Pollution Rules"
"The Trump administration is considering whether to repeal or revise two major Obama administration regulations limiting air pollution from large sources."
Source: The Hill, 04/19/2017
