National Parks Are Overcrowded. Some Think ‘Selfie Stations’ Will Help
"The record-setting crowds of people surging into public lands this summer has set off new challenges for park managers."
Source: Guardian, 09/01/2021
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"Lobster Fishing Will Face Restrictions To Try To Save Whales"
"America’s lobster fishing industry will face a host of new harvesting restrictions amid a new push from the federal government to try to save a vanishing species of whale."
Source: AP, 09/01/2021
"Killer Heat Forces Cities to Adapt Now or Suffer"
"Climate change abruptly gripped North America’s Pacific Coast at the start of summer, setting new heat records by staggering margins across the region’s cities and towns. ... The sudden and extreme heat disaster — matched by other recent heat waves in the Southeastern U.S., Northern Africa, Western Asia, Japan, and Europe — means many temperate cities are in for significantly warmer conditions."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 09/01/2021
Judge Rebuffs Red States' Challenge To Biden's 'Social Costs' Of Carbon
"A federal judge rejected a challenge from 12 states with Republican attorneys general that attempted to block the Biden administration from using certain figures to calculate the climate benefits of rules it puts forward, known as the "social costs" of greenhouse gases."
Source: The Hill, 09/01/2021
Up To Half Of World’s Wild Tree Species May Be At Risk Of Extinction
"Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse, the most comprehensive global stocktake to date warns."
Source: Guardian, 09/01/2021
World Finally Stops Using Leaded Gasoline. Algeria Used Last Stockpile
"Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July."
Source: NPR, 09/01/2021
"A New Breed of Crisis: War and Warming Collide in Afghanistan"
"Afghanistan embodies a new breed of international crisis, where the hazards of war collide with the hazards of climate change, creating a nightmarish feedback loop that punishes some of the world’s most vulnerable people and destroys their countries’ ability to cope."
Source: NYTimes, 09/01/2021
Reports Of Environmental Problems Caused By Ida Begin To Trickle In
"Information about potential environmental threats caused by Hurricane Ida have been slow in coming, but initial reports to the Coast Guard's National Response Center and the state Department of Environmental Quality confirm there were releases of crude oil, fuel oils and a variety of chemicals in numerous locations in southeastern Louisiana on the day before and the day of the storm."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/01/2021
Radically Rural Summit
The Knight Foundation and Lenfest Institute for Journalism have provided grant funding to cover the costs for a select number of journalists to attend the summit in Keene, NH (including transportation, lodging and meals).
#SEJSpotlight: Chase Cain, Climate Storyteller, NBCLX
Meet SEJ member Chase Cain! Chase is a climate storyteller for a new national network called NBCLX, which is focused on long-form storytelling, aimed at Gen Z and Millennial audiences.
