"Polar Bears Scavenge On Garbage To Cope With Climate Change"
"Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears."
Source: Reuters, 07/20/2022
Antarctica & Arctic
Reporting Ocean Stories Is Key to Blue Literacy, Planetary Health
As part of a Society of Environmental Journalists publishing project focused on covering climate solutions, we take a closer look at ocean-based solutions. In this special tipsheet, ocean scientist and science writer Juli Berwald offers a primer on the climate-related challenges and possibilities in the global ocean’s physics, chemistry and biology. Plus, check out an expanded toolbox with reporting resources and watch a recent SEJ webinar.
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Photographer Joined Researchers Examining Climate Change In Antarctica
"Earlier this year, photojournalist James Whitlow Delano joined several groups of scientists, from various universities in Chile as part of the Chilean Antarctic Institute’s (INACH) 58th Antarctic Scientific Expedition."
Source: Washington Post, 07/07/2022
Full Of Holes, New International Agreement Targets Fishing Subsidies
"After 20 years of failed negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has secured a deal to curb harmful subsidies that contribute to overfishing. Conservationists and campaign groups welcomed last week’s agreement as historic, despite criticism of “big holes” in the agreement."
Source: Climate Desk, 07/07/2022
"Emperor Penguin Decline A ‘Done Deal’ Without Global Action"
"The fate of the emperor penguin is in doubt, as global warming threatens its icy habitat — and world leaders struggle to enact protections that could buy the iconic Antarctica bird some much-needed time."
Source: E&E News, 06/20/2022
"Shaky Oasis For Some Polar Bears Found, But Not For Species"
"With the polar bear species in a fight for survival because of disappearing Arctic sea ice, a new distinct group of Greenland bears seem to have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow a small remote population to “hang on.”
Source: AP, 06/17/2022
"New Data Reveals Extraordinary Global Heating In The Arctic"
"New data has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average."
Source: Guardian, 06/16/2022
"Antarctica: Southern Ocean Floor Mapped In Greatest Ever Detail"
"Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean."
Source: BBC News, 06/09/2022
A Castoff Bumper Leads to a Literary ‘Autobiography’ of Plastic
Environmental writer Allison Cobb, in “Plastic: An Autobiography,” tells the story of the ubiquitous material through a series of interwoven narratives that range from her own experiences with it (including a discarded plastic car bumper), to the corporate origins of its spread and the way it’s now dangerously carpeting nature and damaging human communities. Contributor Nano Riley has a review in our new BookShelf.
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"In Antarctica, Does A Burgeoning Krill Fishery Threaten Wildlife?"
"A humpback whale, likely lured by a trawling net capturing masses of Antarctic krill, became entangled last month and died in the Southern Ocean. Three dead juveniles were caught in the same company's krill nets last year."
Source: Reuters, 02/25/2022
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