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October 10, 2024

Mongabay Webinar: How To Cover Geoengineering

This Mongabay webinar will focus on how journalists can better cover geoengineering concepts, such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), the ethical and scientific questions/concerns surrounding this, and the global scientific divide on researching or deploying this technology to combat climate change. 3pm ET.

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"They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans."

"In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant sponges that absorb carbon dioxide from the air."

Source: NYTimes, 09/25/2024

"How A California County Got PFAS Out Of Its Drinking Water"

"Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles. It’s perhaps best known for being the birthplace of President Richard Nixon. But in the past few years, Yorba Linda has picked up another distinction: It’s home to the nation’s largest per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) water treatment plant of its kind, according to the city."

Source: NPR, 09/18/2024

Investigation Explores Dueling Narratives for Addressing Climate Change

Is carbon capture a climate solution or a dangerous distraction? That was the question that Inside Climate News reporter Nicholas Kusnetz asked in his award-winning explanatory series, “Pipe Dreams.” For Inside Story, Kusnetz talks of the challenges of writing about a technology that largely doesn’t yet exist, and the variety of story forms he used to explore the reality of industry promises.

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Worldview Data Expands Environment Reporter’s Strike Zone

A sweeping array of satellites observes our planet and sends vast amounts of data back — data that the powerful NASA Worldview website can translate into graphic form to help journalists tell some of the environment beat’s most central stories. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox explores the strengths and weaknesses of Worldview in covering everything from wildfires and floods to climate.

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