"How to Save the Prairie, Acre by Acre"
"The vital Kansas ecosystem is rapidly shrinking. Its future depends on private landowners like Lorna Harder."
Source: Washington Post, 12/08/2021
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Pro-Trump Counties Have Higher COVID Death Rates: Blame Misinformation
"Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic."
Source: NPR, 12/07/2021"Schumer Steps On The Gas To Move Biden Agenda"
"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is raising the pressure on his own party to get President Biden’s spending bill on track to pass the chamber by Christmas."
Source: The Hill, 12/07/2021Police Hunt Suspects After 8 Wolves Poisoned in Oregon
"At least eight wolves were fatally poisoned in eastern Oregon earlier this year, and Oregon State Police investigators are hoping the public will help apprehend the culprits."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 12/07/2021"Off West Africa’s Coast, A Sea Of Oil Spills Goes Unreported"
"In one of the first comprehensive studies of images captured by the Envisat satellite, researchers with French consultancy firm VisioTerra found evidence of 18,063 oil slicks in the Gulf of Guinea between 2002 and 2012."
Source: Mongabay, 12/07/2021Bezos Commits Another $443 Million To Climate Justice And Conservation
"On Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced his Earth Fund’s latest round of grants: $443 million to be spent primarily on land conservation and restoration and efforts to reduce environmental burdens on marginalized communities."
Source: The Verge, 12/07/2021"Democrats Eye Massive Shift in War on Wildfires: Prevention"
"Democrats are proposing a potentially seismic shift in how the nation battles wildfires by dramatically increasing funding for efforts that aim to prevent blazes, rather than focusing on the tools to put them out."
Source: LA Times, 12/07/2021Increase in Lake Cyanobacteria Blooms Troubles Residents, Experts
"Kirk Meloney first started going to Lake Kanasatka as a boy. He remembers the crystal-clear water in the small lake – you could see straight to the bottom, even in parts of the lake that were 12-feet deep."
Source: New Hampshire Bulletin, 12/07/2021Lack Of Water, Sewer Service Brings Health Risks To Some Alaska Villages
"On a ridge rising over the Bering Strait coast lies the resting place for one community’s sewage."
Source: Arctic Today, 12/07/2021Biden Administration Proposes Lightbulb Efficiency Rule, Reversing Trump
"The Biden administration late Friday proposed a rule that would impose a lightbulb efficiency standard after the Trump administration declined to do so."
Source: The Hill, 12/07/2021"A Life’s Work Bearing Witness to Humanity’s Impact on the Planet"
"Photographer James Balog gives an overview of his career in his big new book, “The Human Element: A Time Capsule From the Anthropocene.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/07/2021"Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation"
"An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country’s population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter. Many are already on the brink of catastrophe."
Source: NYTimes, 12/06/2021"What Happens to Democracy When Local Journalism Dries Up?"
"It has been our great privilege to bring you news from Stoneham and Woburn over the years,” read the announcement. “We regret to inform you that this will be the final edition of the Sun-Advocate newspaper.” The Massachusetts weekly, as of August, is no more."
Source: Washington Post Magazine, 12/06/2021"SCOTUS Rejects Lobster Union Plea To Undo Whale Protections"
"The nation’s highest bench today [Friday] rejected lobstering groups’ call to unwind fishing restrictions designed to protect endangered whales off the coast of Maine."
Source: E&E News, 12/06/2021Honolulu Shuts Down Largest Well Due To Navy Oil Contamination
Honolulu's Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu's largest water source, on Thursday after the Navy said it found "a likely source of the contamination," the Navy said in a virtual town hall meeting."
Source: CNN, 12/06/2021
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