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Oroville Crisis Points to Dam Stories in Many States [1]

California's Oroville Dam has been in the news this month, as it threatened to fail, flooding nearby communities. But worsening dam safety is a national story with local angles throughout the United States. TipSheet runs down the risks and the resources, plus offers upcoming news hooks for dam stories in your community.

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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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Sundance Festival a Megaphone for Climate Concerns [10]

For the first time, Sundance Film Festival spotlighted a single theme, and it was climate change. Documentaries highlighting the issue including a sequel to Al Gore's blockbuster, as well as more than a dozen other films dealing with issues like coral reefs, recyling, changing landscapes and rainforest destruction.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [12]
Agriculture [13]
Climate Change [14]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Forests [16]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [17]
Policy [18]
Waste [19]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [20]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [21]
California [22]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [23]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
International [26]
Mexico [27]
Africa [28]
Australia & Oceania [29]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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"Warming Oceans Are Wrecking Seabird Populations" [30]

"A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat."

Climate Change [14]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [20]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [31], 02/13/2017
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"Hark! A Sea Monster! (Oh, No, Just a Dying Whale)" [32]

"All those strange sea monster sightings in days of yore? This may be the best explanation yet."

Fish & Fisheries [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [20]
Public [9]
International [26]
Source: Hakai [33], 02/10/2017
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"Path To Improving Atlantic Flyway At Blackwater Is Filled With Mud" [34]

"Converting low marsh to high marsh will help offset erosion caused by rising sea level".

Climate Change [14]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [20]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: Bay Journal [36], 02/07/2017
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"Judge Supports Plan For Expanding Au Sable River Trout Farm" [37]

"A state judge has sided with a northern Michigan fish growing company that wants to dramatically increase production of rainbow trout on the Au Sable River, turning aside objections that the expansion would pollute the prized waterway."

Fish & Fisheries [5]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Source: AP [40], 02/03/2017
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"Judge Asked To Lift Hold On Yellowstone Dam And Protect Fish" [41]

"U.S. officials are pressing a federal judge to lift his 2015 order blocking a proposed irrigation dam and fish passage on the Yellowstone River, warning that a rapidly-disappearing, ancient fish species faces a grim future with further delays to construction."

Agriculture [13]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [9]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [24]
Source: AP [42], 02/03/2017
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"After Decades Of Decreases, Mercury Rises In Great Lakes Wildlife." [43]

"Scientists are seeing an uptick of the legacy toxic in Great Lakes fish and birds. Warming waters are the suspected culprit. More coal will make it worse."

Chemicals [44]
Climate Change [14]
Environmental Health [45]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Source: Daily Climate [46], 02/03/2017
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"In Michigan, a Fight Over the Future of a Fabled Trout River" [47]

"The greatest sign posted at a public fishing access spot in the United States is on the South Branch of the Au Sable River at a place called the Mason Tract. It reads: “Sportsman slow your pace … ahead lies the fabled land of the South Branch. Here generations of fisherman have cast a fly on one of the great trout streams of America."

Fish & Fisheries [5]
Public [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Source: NY Times [48], 01/26/2017
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Canada vows action on mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows [49]

"The Chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to commit in writing to cleaning up the mercury that has contaminated the river near his community. Late Monday, a spokesperson for Trudeau said the federal government will take action to deal with the Grassy Narrows mercury contamination 'once and for all.'"

Environmental Health [45]
Fish & Fisheries [5]
Pollution [50]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [9]
Canada [51]
Source: Toronto Star [52], 01/18/2017
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