Water & Oceans

In India, Indigenous Women Make ‘Dream Maps’ To Protect Lands From Warming

"At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, foraging and fishing marks the start of a new season."

Source: AP, 05/27/2025

In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People

On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.

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Mapping Out Local PFAS Risk, As Federal Rules Waver

As the Trump administration rolls back Biden-era rules limiting the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water, an updated data mapping tool helps pinpoint local angles on the PFAS story. The latest TipSheet outlines the basics on this class of widely used chemicals, their risks to humans and the challenges of regulating them, plus provides a half-dozen story ideas and questions to ask.

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"Trump Spared A New York Wind Project. What Did He Get In Return?"

"President Donald Trump’s sudden decision Monday to reverse course and lift a stop work order on Empire Wind 1 prompted widespread speculation in Albany and Washington that the president had extracted a commitment from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to allow a new gas pipeline to move forward."

Source: E&E News, 05/23/2025

NOAA Predicts Another Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season, But Not As Bad As 2024

"With warmer than normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting yet another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic. But they don’t think it will be as chaotic as 2024, the third-costliest season on record as it spawned killer storms Beryl, Helene and Milton."

Source: AP, 05/23/2025
June 18, 2025

DEADLINE: Catalyst 2025 — Simulation of Working Through a Water Crisis

Rogue Water Lab invites applications from journalists to attend this high-intensity, immersive event to simulate working through a water crisis — complete with misinformation, stakeholder conflict, press pressure and policy implications. Sep 22–24, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisc. Apply by June 18.

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"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"

"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025

"Where Local Forecast Offices No Longer Monitor Weather Around-The-Clock"

"For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. But after the U.S. DOGE Service led efforts to shrink the federal government, that is no longer possible in some parts of the country."

Source: Washington Post, 05/21/2025

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