"Twelve New Kids’ Beach Reads to Inspire Action and Adventure"
"Young readers can become archaeologists, seaweed harvesters, and Arctic explorers, all through the pages of books."
Source: Hakai, 06/23/2023
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Just Two People – But Millions Of Inhabitants On Tiny Cornish Island
"Looe Island is a case study in how to boost biodiversity, a place where the wardens, Claire Lewis and her partner, Jon Ross, are the only residents, alongside gulls, godwits and comma butterflies".
Source: Guardian, 06/23/2023"Biden Admin To Strengthen Endangered Species Protections"
"The Biden administration rolled out a package Wednesday to fortify protections for plants and animals at risk of going extinct, restoring Endangered Species Act provisions that were curtailed during the Trump administration."
Source: E&E News, 06/22/2023"Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave"
"A searing heat wave has pushed temperatures to record highs in recent days in several cities in South and West Texas, prompting health advisories and pleas for energy conservation."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/22/2023Enviros Petition Biden To Crack Down On Methane Emissions From Landfills
"More than a dozen environmental groups are asking the Biden administration to crack down on methane emissions from landfills."
Source: The Hill, 06/22/2023Tribal Voices Left Out of Key Nuclear Cleanup on Ancestral Land
"Three federally recognized tribes have devoted decades to restoring the condition of their ancestral lands in southeastern Washington state to what they were before those lands became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation."
Source: AP, 06/22/2023"Ruling Clouds EPA Pebble Veto, but Mine Remains Unlikely"
"The EPA will likely need to revise its rationale for protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine following the Supreme Court’s June ruling in a pivotal Clean Water Act case, but the mine is still unlikely to proceed, legal experts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/22/2023"First ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat Approved By Regulators In US"
"Regulators have approved “lab-grown” meat to be sold in the United States for the first time at restaurants and eventually in supermarkets."
Source: The Hill, 06/22/2023Lenders Continue Pouring Money Into Meat and Dairy, Despite Climate Promises
"The world’s biggest development banks have agreed that they will funnel their financial support to businesses that promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But a new analysis published Wednesday by animal and environmental advocacy groups says those banks have given billions to big livestock and grain companies expanding greenhouse gas-intensive agricultural systems."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/22/2023In ‘Cancer Alley,’ Carbon Capture Push Draws Fire From Environmentalists
"EPA proposes handing regulation of carbon storage to state officials in Louisiana. Activists fear the risks, and the chance it could perpetuate the fossil fuel industry."
Source: Washington Post, 06/22/2023Ambitious Saudi Plans To Ramp Up Hajj Face Challenges From Climate Change
"Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam’s holiest sites. But as climate change heats up an already scorching region, the annual Hajj pilgrimage — much of which takes place outdoors in the desert — could prove even more daunting."
Source: AP, 06/22/2023Monarch Butterflies' White Spots May Help Them Fly Farther: Scientists
"Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete their long-distance migration by altering the air flow around their wings."
Source: NPR, 06/22/2023"EPA Is Struggling to Keep Track of Water Grants, Watchdog Says"
"The EPA doesn’t seem to have a firm grip on a $162 million pot of money meant for water infrastructure grants, the agency’s inspector general said in a Tuesday memo to department officials.
The findings are the latest in a string of reports from the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general raising red flags about how the agency is doling out its grant money.
The EPA’s drinking water division admitted it “encountered challenges” in trying to provide a list of grants issued under the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, according to the memo."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/21/2023UN Adds New Disclosure Requirements for COP28 Corporate Fossil Lobbying
"Watchdog groups call the change a "baby step" toward reform, while UN chief Antonio Guterres says climate action must start with the fossil fuel industry, “the polluted heart of the climate crisis.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/21/2023"Biden Announces Physician Mandy Cohen Will Lead CDC"
"The Biden administration announced Friday that Mandy Cohen, a physician and a former North Carolina health secretary, will be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, assuming leadership of an agency left battered by the coronavirus pandemic."
Source: Washington Post, 06/21/2023
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