"Inventing a Vocabulary to Help Inuit People Talk About Climate Change"
"One team is working with Inuvialuit elders to come up with a renewable energy terminology—and maybe revive a dying language".
Source: Smithsonian, 10/19/2017
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"America’s Climate Refugees Have Been Abandoned by Trump"
"As hurricane after hurricane ravages Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, the Trump administration has quietly walked away from a government-wide effort to help the growing number of American communities whose very existence is threatened by climate change."
Source: Mother Jones, 10/19/2017
"New Talks on Paris Climate Pact Are Set, and That’s Awkward for U.S."
"When Trump administration officials travel to Germany next month for United Nations climate change discussions, they will face a fundamental contradiction: how to negotiate the terms of a deal they say they’re walking away from."
Source: NY Times, 10/19/2017
"Armadillo Migration North in US Possible Sign Of Climate Change"
"It may be one of the stranger signs of climate change: the nine-banded armadillo, which is native to Latin America and more recently Texas. Scientists say warmer winters have lured the mammals northwards, bringing with them parasites and diseases."
Source: Aljazeera, 10/18/2017
"How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis"
"Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe."
Source: YaleE360, 10/18/2017
"Powerful Storm Lashes Ireland, Killing at Least 3 People"
"One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the northeastern Atlantic bore down on Ireland on Monday, unleashing strong winds and rain that killed at least three people and visited destruction on an island with little experience of such powerful storms."
Source: NY Times, 10/18/2017
"Trump Voters In Storm-Ravaged County Confront Climate Change"
"PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth of rain on his town, drowning this church where he was baptized, met his high school sweetheart and later married her."
Source: AP, 10/18/2017
SEJ Objects Over EPA Response to AP Story; plus, Suits & Rulings Involving Interior, EPA, NOAA
The SEJ has written the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to object to its criticism of an Associated Press story about Superfund sites following Hurricane Harvey floods. That, plus a judge rules against EPA for withholding records on the pesticide Enlist Duo, and more, in this month's WatchDog.
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"Wildfires Kill At Least 39 in Portugal and Spain"
"At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighboring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/17/2017
"Plant More Trees To Combat Climate Change: Scientists"
"Planting forests and other activities that harness the power of nature could play a major role in limiting global warming under the 2015 Paris agreement, an international study showed on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/17/2017
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