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More Dangerous, Drug-Resistant Salmonella Rising In US Poultry

"Amid a busy season of summer food recalls and illnesses, sustainable farming advocates are warning that salmonella bacteria found in poultry is increasing strains most likely to cause illness, hospitalization and death, and that such bacteria are also increasingly resistant to antibiotic medicine."

Source: The New Lede, 08/31/2026

Menhaden Board Advances Potential Cuts To Chesapeake Bay Fishery Limits

"The regional board overseeing menhaden management along the Atlantic coast on Wednesday  advanced a measure to implement new restrictions on Virginia’s only reduction fishery that harvests the oily forage fish within the Chesapeake Bay."

Source: Virginia Mercury, 08/31/2026

Trump Administration Proposes Changes To Biden-Era Climate Report

"The Tr ump administration is looking to change a portion of a 2023 federal climate report." "The administration proposed to reframe how the Fifth National Climate Assessment sees its worst-case scenarios after U.N. scientists said earlier this year that a worst-case scenario was not plausible."

Source: The Hill, 08/31/2026

Lawsuit Seeks to Block Closure of Top Federal Climate Research Center

"The Trump administration move is “politically motivated,” said the plaintiff, one of the nation’s leading environmental gr�oups."

"One of the nation’s largest environmental groups is challenging the Trump administration’s closure of a leading climate institute, filing a lawsuit Thursday [Aug. 20] in federal court saying the closure is unlawful.

Source: Inside Climate News, 08/27/2026

West Point Climate Prof. Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’

"Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired." "After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, Dr. Adam Kalkstein says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy."

Source: New York Times, 08/27/2026

At Least 35,000 Excess Deaths Recorded In Europe’s Back-To-Back Heatwaves

"At least 35,000 more people died during Europe’s four record-breaking, back-to-back heatwaves this summer than would normally be expected, according to incomplete figures from barely half the continent."

Source: Guardian, 08/26/2026

Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

"Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread." "By the time colleagues called Dr. Matías Lahitte, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, it was too late."

Source: New York Times, 08/24/2026

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