"Weather Whiplash: How Climate Change Killed Thousands of Migratory Birds"
"When dead birds fall from the sky, you know something is wrong. But finding out exactly what killed them isn’t as easy."
Source: The Revelator, 02/21/2023
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#SEJSpotlight: Bobby Magill, Reporter, Bloomberg Law
Meet SEJ member Bobby Magill! Bobby is a journalist covering water, public lands and the Interior Department for Bloomberg Law in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on climate change and legal battles over the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, water supplies, oil and gas leasing, endangered species and other federal lands issues.
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"The Edges Matter: Hedgerows Are Bringing Life Back to Farms"
"Researchers have found that planting hedgerows helps farmers sequester carbon in the soil, manage pests, and provide habitat for pollinators and other wildlife."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/15/2023
Earth Has Lost 1/5 Of Wetlands Since 1700; Most Could Still Be Saved
"Like so many of the planet's natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been drained, dug up and built on. Peatlands, a particular type of wetland, store at least twice the carbon of all the world's forests."
Source: The Conversation, 02/14/2023
Koalas, Under Pressure From Wildfires and Development, Are Beloved But Undefended
The cuteness of the fuzzy koala appears not to be winning it special protection in its native Australia, despite dwindling numbers, per a new volume on the endangered marsupial. BookShelf contributor Melody Kemp offers praise for “Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future,” with a review that begins amusingly with bodily functions but ends dispiritedly with yet more koala habitat lost to housing tracts and wildfire.
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"NPS Completes Largest Move Of Yellowstone Bison To Tribal Land"
"The National Park Service earlier this year completed its largest transfer of bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Mont."
Source: E&E News, 02/13/2023
The Next Deadly Pandemic Is Not Inevitable, But The Elements Are In Place
"If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu."
Source: Guardian, 02/13/2023
SEJ Panel Gauges Issues in the Works in the U.S. West
As part of our 2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment special report, we’ve got highlights from last week’s reporter panel on the year ahead, led by #SEJ2023 conference co-chair Tom Michael (pictured, left). The focus was largely on the U.S. West, where challenges abound over issues like equitable siting of renewable energy infrastructure, regulating natural gas, managing wildfires and addressing the health consequences of climate-driven heat waves. Read our account, plus check out the full 2023 Guide.
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"Mexican Avocados Shipped For Super Bowl Named In Complaint"
"One year after the Super Bowl season was marred by a ban on Mexican avocado shipments, another threat has emerged: An environmental complaint that avocado growers are destroying forests that provide critical habitat for monarch butterflies and other creatures."
Source: AP, 02/10/2023
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