Lack Of Water, Sewer Service Brings Health Risks To Some Alaska Villages
"On a ridge rising over the Bering Strait coast lies the resting place for one community’s sewage."
Source: Arctic Today, 12/07/2021
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Pro-Trump Counties Have Higher COVID Death Rates: Blame Misinformation
"Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic."
Source: NPR, 12/07/2021
When Reporting on Toxic Hotspots, Go Deeper With Cancer Registries
As awareness grows about how pollution can cause certain cancers, it’s smart to look beyond cancer risk and also explore available information about actual cancer cases. Reporter’s Toolbox explains how extensive data collected regularly in state-level cancer “registries” can take your coverage on the pollution-public health connection to another level. Plus, avoiding pitfalls in reporting possible clusters.
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Don't Blame Climate Change For Madagascar's Food Crisis: Scientists
"Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 12/02/2021
Biden Administration To Struggle With Environmental Justice in 2022
The history of environmental racism is a long one in the United States, far longer than the efforts to address the problem. But reporting on environmental justice continues to tick upwards, and an analysis in the latest Backgrounder points to promising progress, explaining why for journalists the year ahead may yield important stories, whether about future footholds or new missteps.
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"Long Thought Extinct, A Native Corn Re-Emerges"
"The fact that these age-old varieties survived — the fact that Pawnee corn exists at all in 2021 — is a story of tribal perseverance, cutting-edge horticulture and good, old-fashioned cooperation".
Source: Flatwater Free Press, 11/23/2021
Rural Reporter Turns Routine Permit Into Award-Winning Investigation
It was a seemingly mundane legal notice about a surface water discharge permit. But when Wyoming journalist Angus Thuermer Jr. took a closer look, he discovered that it would mean massive discharges of pollutants into local waters. Inside Story explains how Thuermer revealed the truth about the plans, prompting local protests and, ultimately, a withdrawal of the permit.
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Company Cancels Plans For $2.5 Billion Oil Terminal In Plaquemines Parish
"A Midwest energy company on Friday canceled controversial plans for a $2.5 billion oil export terminal and pipeline in Plaquemines Parish after facing numerous obstacles to development. Instead, Tallgrass Energy Partners said it will consider other uses for the site."
Source: Nola.com, 11/22/2021
Canada’s Tar Sands Destruction Challenges Existence of Land and People
"Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people’s traditional lands with mines that cover an area bigger than New York City, stripping away boreal forest and wetlands and rerouting waterways."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/22/2021
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