"Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard"
"New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/08/2025
Climate Change
"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish"
"When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists."
Source: Science, 10/07/2025
"Outcry As Trump Plots More Roads And Logging In US Forests"
"Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment"
Source: Guardian, 10/07/2025
California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’
"For most of her life, Thea Maria Carlson did not like fire. Even though she had studied earth systems at Stanford University and knew, intellectually, that burning had an environmental purpose in her home of California, she still wanted nothing to do with it."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/07/2025
"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?"
"Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned."
Source: Euronews, 10/07/2025
"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires"
"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/07/2025
Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage
Cropland can easily be found time and again at the heart of the key concerns on the environment beat, whether climate, water, chemicals or, of course, land. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox shares a high-quality, mappable database that can serve up stories on more than 100 categories of crops, with numbers drawn from satellite imagery. Plus, a pro tip on using the data smartly.
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Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be
A small Louisiana community, home to the descendants of formerly enslaved Black people, continues to fight for its freedom many decades later, this time from a potentially polluting technology. FEJ StoryLog contributor Yessenia Funes recounts her journey to this Cancer Alley community, where a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism helped her tell the story of residents challenging a multibillion-dollar carbon capture plant.
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Trump’s Hatred For Renewables Putting US Behind The Rest Of The World
"As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects"
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025
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