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Forest Inventory May Provide Trail Guide to Ongoing Policy Crisis [1]

U.S. forests face damage from drought, climate-driven disease and wildfire. To help track the state of our trees, Reporter’s Toolbox explores a massive set of Forest Service databases that details everything from deforestation and dead fuel status to deforestation and species mix. There’s even info on urban forests and grasslands. A closer look at the Forest Inventory and Analysis program.

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Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [5]
Government [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Science [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
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Public [11]

The Year Nature Became Mainstream Medicine [12]

An unusual student journalist, moonlighting in between his Ph.D. training as a clinical psychologist, turned an interest in the ways nature can heal into an award-winning story for a prominent magazine, and in the process helped prompt skyrocketing interest among mainstream physicians in “prescribing nature.” Aaron Reuben shares his experience in the new EJ Academy.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ Academy [13]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [14]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [15]
Science [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
June 6, 2021

Knight Science Journalism at MIT Project Fellowships [16]

This remote KSJ program offers a range of support to working U.S. journalists for independently conceived projects. Fellowships will be awarded for varying durations over the course of the academic year, beginning in Sep 2021 and ending in May 2022. Deadline is Jun 6.

Workshops and Fellowships [17]
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Public [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
June 3, 2021

Barriers in Science Communications for Black and People of Colour [18]

Science Writers and Communicators of Canada hosts this online panel discussion at Noon ET, moderated by genomics researcher and science communicator Farah Qaiser (pictured), to illuminate the challenges and barriers — and hopes for dismantling them — faced by Black and People of Colour science communicators in Canada.

Other Events [19]
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Public [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Diversity [20]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [9]
Region: 
Canada [21]

New Arctic Council Reports Underline Growing Concerns At Air Pollution [22]

"The Arctic is now warming three times as fast as the global average, and faces an ongoing barrage of dangerous climate and environmental pollutants, Arctic Council experts warned at the start of their meetings in Reykjavik, Iceland this week. Black carbon, or soot, remains high on the list of concerns because of its negative effect on human health and because it accelerates the Arctic meltdown by darkening snow."

Air [23]
Climate Change [3]
Pollution [24]
Science [9]
Public [11]
International [25]
Antarctica & Arctic [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 05/21/2021

"White House Brings Back Climate Scientist Forced Out By Trump Admin" [28]

"The Biden administration has reinstalled the director of the federal climate program that produces the U.S. government’s definitive reports on climate change, after the Trump administration removed him in November."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [29]
Government [6]
Science [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [30], 05/20/2021

DFO Altered Report To Downplay Risks To Imperilled Steelhead: Docs [31]

"Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead, documents obtained by the B.C. Wildlife Federation through access to information legislation reveal."

Environmental Politics [29]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Science [9]
Public [11]
Canada [21]
Source: The Narwhal [34], 05/17/2021

"U.S. Has Entered Unprecedented Climate Territory, EPA Warns" [35]

"For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of an Environmental Protection Agency report detailing climate-related damage. But on Wednesday, the EPA released a detailed and disturbing account of the startling changes that Earth’s warming had on parts of the United States during Trump’s presidency."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [7]
Science [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [37], 05/13/2021
May 24, 2021 to June 15, 2021

2021 National Pesticide Forum: Cultivating Healthy Communities [38]

Presented by Beyond Pesticides and The Institute for Exposomic Research/Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, the virtual 2021 Forum takes place 6:00-7:30 p.m. ET on May 24, and 1:00-5:30 p.m. ET on June 1, 8 and 15, to discuss confronting health threats, climate disasters and biodiversity collapse with a toxic-free future.

Other Events [19]
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Public [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [39]
Biodiversity [40]
Chemicals [41]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [14]
Pollution [24]
Science [9]

"America’s New Normal: A Degree Hotter Than Two Decades Ago" [42]

"America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago."

Climate Change [3]
Science [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [43], 05/05/2021

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