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02/27/2021

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was first banded by scientists on a remote North Pacific atoll in 1956

02/12/2021

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/05/964447070/where-did-the-coronavirus-variants-come-from?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

Scientists are looking at a possible link between the mutations in the U.K. and South Africa — and those in a patient in Boston who had living, growing virus in his body for five months.

01/15/2021

An initiative in Arctic bird conservation shows the value of cooperation across geographical and political boundaries

11/04/2020

https://www.facebook.com/5883397961/posts/10158766240927962/

Nov. 3 marks One Health Day through the CDC that brings attention to addressing shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface and recognizes health of people is connected to health of animals and our shared environment. Learn more at https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/one-health-day.html

09/19/2020

04/17/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/climate/epa-mercury-coal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The agency is changing the way it calculates the benefits of mercury controls, a move that would effectively loosen the rules on other toxic pollutants.

02/04/2020

'I Don't Believe This Is Happening': 911 Call Reveals Chaos After Delta Fuel Dump https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802348782/i-don-t-believe-this-is-happening-911-call-reveals-chaos-after-delta-fuel-dump?sc=18&f=1001

NPR has obtained audio of a 911 call made in the immediate aftermath of an incident, where Delta Air Lines Flight 89 dropped 15,000 gallons of jet fuel over the Los Angeles area.

01/28/2020

https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-clean-water-protection-2644896051.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=2e495d6b83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-2e495d6b83-85389273

"Waters that have been protected for almost 50 years will no longer be protected under the Clean Water Act."

12/03/2019

https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-extinction

A perfect storm of factors has lead to the biggest crisis for American farmers in decades.

12/03/2019

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tree-kangaroos-extinct-palm-oil-deforestation-indonesia-asia-a7220731.html

Palm oil is found in crisps, pizza, noodles and donuts, as well as toothpaste, shampoo and biodiesel

11/12/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/flint-michigan-schools.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The city’s schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure.

11/12/2019

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019/11/10/why-are-birds-and-seals-starving-in-a-bering-sea-full-of-fish/

The tally includes a nearly fivefold increase in ice-seal carcasses spotted on shore, along with strandings of emaciated gray whales.

09/22/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q0xUXo2zEY

Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle...

08/29/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/world/americas/amazon-fire-brazil-bolsonaro.html?utm_source=fbia

How widespread are the fires? Is climate change to blame? Who’s at fault for the burning?

08/29/2019

The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.

08/27/2019

A NASA satellite captured harrowing images of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere due to the wildfires that continue to rage in the Amazon rainforest.

06/06/2019

https://www.popsci.com/ghost-forests-sea-level-rise

In the Arctic, rapidly melting ice is the surest sign of climate change. In less northern latitudes, it’s the increasingly early onset of spring or the rising frequency of severe weather. On Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast shores, though, the loudest example of the impacts of warming temperatures are ...