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  • Voting In Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Starts After Attack Killed 1 Contestant October 3, 2024
    "Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter." BiodiversityFish & FisheriesJournalism & MediaNatural ResourcesWater & OceansNational (U.S.)Alaska and HawaiiPublicSource: ,
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  • "Biden Signs Bill Cutting Environmental Reviews For Semiconductor Industry" October 3, 2024
    "President Biden on Wednesday signed legislation exempting semiconductor manufacturing facilities from environmental reviews — despite objections from some Democrats and green activists who have expressed concerns about the potential for toxic waste." ChemicalsEconomy & BusinessEnvironmental HealthEnvironmental PoliticsLaws & RegulationsPollutionTechnologyNational (U.S.)PublicSource: ,
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  • S. Calif. Study Shows Extensive Exposure To Toxic Airborne Plasticizers October 3, 2024
    "Urban populations in Southern Californian are facing chronic exposure to toxic airborne “plasticizer” compounds — two of which have already been banned from children’s products, a new study has found." AirChemicalsConsumerEnvironmental HealthPollutionNational (U.S.)CaliforniaPublicSource: ,
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  • "American Dams Weren’t Built for Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods" October 3, 2024
    "As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing." Climate ChangeDisastersInfrastructureWater & OceansNational (U.S.)PublicSource: ,
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  • "‘Everything Is Dead’: Ukraine Rushes To Stem Ecocide After River Poisoning" October 3, 2024
    "Ukrainian officials say the Russians deliberately poisoned the Seym River, which flows into the Desna. The Desna connects with a reservoir in the Kyiv region and a water supply used by millions." ChemicalsDisastersEnvironmental HealthMilitaryPollutionWater & OceansInternationalEuropePublicSource: ,
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  • "Hurricane Gives Democrats A Climate Opening In Florida" October 3, 2024
    "Democrats are deploying climate arguments against Republican Rick Scott in the state’s contentious Senate race." Climate ChangeDisastersEnvironmental PoliticsNational (U.S.)SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN)PublicSource: ,
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  • Drug-Resistant Typhoid Spreads In Pakistan As Antibiotics Fail October 3, 2024
    "From his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see his siblings play with a ball in the courtyard. His head hurt and his body felt too heavy to move. Ukasha had typhoid fever – an illness he should have recovered from in days. It had been a month." Environmental HealthPeople & PopulationPollutionInternationalPublicSource: ,
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  • "A Shift Among Democrats: Embrace Record Levels of Oil and Gas" October 3, 2024
    "JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels." Climate ChangeEnergy & FuelEnvironmental PoliticsScienceNational (U.S.)PublicSource: ,
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  • "Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?" October 3, 2024
    "As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable." Climate ChangeDisastersEnvironmental HealthPeople & PopulationPlanning & GrowthWater & OceansNational (U.S.)PublicSource: ,
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  • "Hurricanes’ Hidden Toll: Thousands Of Deaths Years After They Strike" October 3, 2024
    "Of more than 500 hurricanes that have hit the United States, the average storm led to up to 11,000 excess deaths, hundreds of times higher than official estimates." Climate ChangeDisastersEnvironmental HealthWater & OceansNational (U.S.)PublicSource: ,
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  • Green subsidies may have hidden costs, experts warn
    Government subsidies for business practices and processes should be approached with caution, even when they seem to be environmentally friendly, writes a group of scientists and economists. They argue that subsidies can alter market pressures, leading to unintended consequences that not only perpetuate harmful subsidies over time but also diminish the overall effectiveness of those […]
  • How doxycycline for STI prevention affects the gut microbiome
    Taking a dose of the oral antibiotic doxycycline after a high-risk sexual encounter has dramatically reduced the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in places where the strategy is being tried.
  • Ant agriculture began 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs
    According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal conditions for fungi to thrive. Innovative ants began cultivating the fungi, creating an evolutionary partnership that became even more tightly intertwined 27 million […]
  • A new era of solar observation
    For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting observations are providing valuable insights into the processes that drive the intense solar storms that impact fundamental technologies, and thus lives and livelihoods, […]
  • The true global impact of species-loss caused by humans is far greater than expected
    The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range of different roles and functions that birds undertake within the environment -- and resulted in the loss of approximately 3 billion years of unique evolutionary […]