"Using AI To Spot Edible Mushrooms Could Kill You"
"AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes".
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2024
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DEADLINE: UNESCO Call for Proposals — Photographs Covering Environmental Issues and Emergencies
UNESCO invites professional photographers from all over the world to send a sample of their best photographs reporting on environmental issues and emergencies. UNESCO will establish a contract with the photographers and purchase the selected photographs. Deadline: March 31, 2024.
DEADLINE: IJ4EU Impact Award
The Investigative Journalism for Europe's annual award celebrates the best of European cross-border investigative journalism. Three cash prizes of €5,000 are available for investigative teams that have pushed the boundaries in tackling transnational stories of public interest. Deadline: Apr 27, 2025.
The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Is Losing Them
"Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar outfits. They were smokejumpers with the United States Forest Service, the agency that directs the majority of the nation’s efforts to manage wildfires."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024
"You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month"
"The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024
"An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing"
"The legislation aimed to reformulate how Oregon funds the rising costs of fighting wildfires. It sparked debate within the Democratic-controlled Legislature about who should pay: taxpayers or big timber owners, who won steep tax cuts in the 1990s."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024
"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs"
"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024
"5th Circuit Denies Biden Request To Review Nuclear Waste Ruling"
"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."
Source: E&E News, 03/19/2024
"How You Should Think About Those Google Flights Pollution Numbers"
"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2024
"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show"
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024
