"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
Climate Change
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
"Advocates Raise Alarm Over PFAS Pollution From Datacenters Amid AI Boom"
"Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought"
"Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – PFAS “forever chemical” pollution.
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025
Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s
"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."
Source: AP, 10/06/2025
"Chart: Global Investment In Renewables Hits Record Even As US Falters"
"Globally, investors are pouring more money into renewable energy than ever — even as they pull back on spending in the U.S."
Source: Canary Media, 10/06/2025
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