"A River in Flux"
"Extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm for the Amazon, challenging its people and ecosystems."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/01/2024
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#SEJ2024 Closing Plenary: Battling Disinformation, Fending Off Despair and Staying Relevant — What’s the Future for Environmental Journalism?
Join the livestream of the #SEJ2024 closing plenary exploring hoiw to combat the ever-present climate disinformation and consider evolving views on journalistic objectivity. We’ll consider how to cope with the feeling of despair, and at how some journalists and outlets have created new business models to fund their journalism. 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET.
#SEJ2024 Opening Plenary: Election 2024 — How Will Climate Change Matter?
Join the livestream of the #SEJ2024 opening plenary on how the 2024 election is likely to dominate coverage across local, regional and national newsrooms. 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET.
#SEJ2024: U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan Keynote and Q&A
Join the livestream of this #SEJ2024 discussion with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 16th Administrator, Michael S. Regan, and Bloomberg Law senior reporter Jennifer Hijazi. 8:30-9:30 a.m. ET.
#SEJ2024 Opening Program: Welcome to Philly!
Join the livestream of the #SEJ2024 opening program! We'll preview UPenn’s environmental-related research and efforts; showcase Philly, its foods and sports craziness; hear from the Philly Youth Poet Laureate and take a virtual artistic tour through the city’s amazing street murals and environmental justice history. We’ll also hear from our UPenn hosts and disinformation warriors — Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Michael Mann — who together have quite a story to tell about disinformation overwhelming our world and what we might be able to do about it. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET.
Last Coal-Burning Power Plant In New England Set To Close. Enviros Win.
"The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and protests, is set to close in a victory for environmentalists."
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
"Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun"
"Legislation to protect critical wetlands faces uncertainty as titanium mine moves closer to permitting."
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/01/2024
"Chocolate Prices To Keep Rising As West Africa’s Cocoa Crisis Deepens"
"Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Today, less than a dozen remain."
Source: Reuters, 04/01/2024
EV Charging Stations Key To Biden Climate Agenda, Yet Only 4 States Have Them
"LONDON, Ohio — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.
Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania.
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
"Iowa Official Finds Dead Fish In 50 Miles Of Fertilizer-Contaminated River"
"State conservation officials have found no living fish in the East Nishnabotna River south of Red Oak — the result of a massive fertilizer spill at a farmers cooperative."
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch, 04/01/2024
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