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Malnourished Gray Whales of Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’

"Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists."

Source: Inside Climate News, 05/26/2026

Companies Join Deep-Sea Mining Rush After Trump Order Fast-Tracks Permits

"In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process."

Source: AP, 05/26/2026

UN Affirms Responsibility To Mitigate Climate Change; US Votes Against

"The United Nations voted this week to affirm that countries have a responsibility to protect people from climate change, while the U.S. was one of a handful of member states to vote against the resolution."

Source: The Hill, 05/26/2026

Firms Rush Toward Deep-Sea Mining As Trump Regulators Fast-Track Permits

"In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process."

Source: AP, 05/22/2026

Extreme Heat Will Get You This Summer. Watch Out!

With the approach of what looks like an unusually hot summer, the latest TipSheet offers guidance on covering extreme heat, starting with the step-by-step basics of understanding heat’s health impacts, from dehydration to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Plus, get 10 story ideas and reporting resources to cover the dangers of extreme heat locally.

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"Europe’s Green-Energy Future Has a Problem: Reindeer"

"In northern Norway, Sami people fear a copper mine will disrupt their traditional lifestyles."

"Each summer, Nils Mikkelsen Utsi guides his reindeer to highland pastures overlooking a fjord, known to locals as Repparfjord, in northern Norway. There, under the Arctic midnight sun, female reindeer give birth and Mr. Utsi marks the ears of the calves. His ancestors have done this for generations.

“This is my reindeer district,” he said. “This is my life.”

Source: New York Times, 05/21/2026

US Researchers Face New Limits On Publishing With Foreign Collaborators

"Grants managers at two of the U.S. government’s largest funders of scientific research have recently placed unprecedented limitations on the ability of U.S. scientists to publish with co-authors from other countries, researchers say."

Source: Science, 05/21/2026

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