"Reviving the Redwoods"
"A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws."
Source: NYTimes, 08/16/2023
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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves
"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"
Source: Public Health Watch, 08/16/2023
"Interior Announces Potential Offshore Wind Areas For Oregon"
"The Biden administration advanced the first potential floating offshore wind auctions off the Oregon coast Tuesday by designating where sales might be located."
Source: E&E News, 08/16/2023
"Despite Climate Goals, California Will Let Three Gas Plants Keep Running"
"Sometimes, breaking news is spectacularly unsurprising — but still hugely consequential. That was the case Tuesday, when California officials finalized a decision they’d been telegraphing for months, voting to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants along the state’s southern coast through 2026, instead of closing them later this year.
Source: LA Times, 08/16/2023
90% Of England’s Most Precious Rivers Polluteded By Raw Sewage And Farming
"More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals."
Source: Guardian, 08/16/2023
"Canada's Northwest Territories Declares Emergency Due To Wildfires"
"The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a risk to territorial capital Yellowknife."
Source: Reuters, 08/16/2023
Knight Center Webinar: Generative AI — What Journalists Need To Know About ChatGPT and Other Tools
The Knight Center’s Journalism Courses program is beginning a series of initiatives to help journalists understand the impact of generative AI on the news industry, as well as the opportunities and threats it creates. This brief webinar, at 12:00 p.m. ET, will be followed next month by an online course on the same topic.
Off Alaska Coast, Research Crew Peers Down To Map Deep And Remote Ocean
"For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world’s deepest and most remote waters."
Source: AP, 08/15/2023
"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated"
"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."
Source: Texas Observer, 08/15/2023
Survival of Wild Rice Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Rainfall
"Low water levels are critical for manoomin, a sacred crop for the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region. But climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is bringing more rain and flooding to Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, making harvests of wild rice less reliable."
Source: Sahan Journal, 08/15/2023
