200 incidents of bizarre fish behavior recorded recently in Florida cnn.com/2024/04/12/cli…

My alma mater University of Oregon failed to tell students about a pattern of recent druggings at frats, as the Clery Act requires, then got caught making false statements justifying why it didn't do so.

Great work by Eugene Weekly ELIZA, who brought receipts
eugeneweekly.com/2024/04/11/f-i…

Great (and sobering) breakdown by Ian James on a lesser-known driver of ocean acidification: high nitrogen levels from coastal sewage plants.

“It’s not just coming from global climate change. It’s also coming from our land-based sources of pollution.'
latimes.com/environment/ne…

California's water storage is at its healthiest levels in over a decade.

Virtually every major reservoir in the state has average to above-average storage, with a substantial 115% of average snowpack still to melt.

The last two years have been an amazing reprieve from the…

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

ANNOUNCING NSWA's
Field Reporting Panel

April 24 at 7:00pm

University House, 4400 Stone Way N, Seattle

And On Zoom!

Panelists will discuss tips, tricks, and things to know when gathering stories and reporting in the field--from how to find a fixer to essential gear

Who's going to Vienna for the EGU meeting ?

I arrive Sunday night! I'm co-convener of a session on lakes and inland seas under climate change.

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/…

#egu2024

Long overdue.
'The EPA says the rule--focused on six pollutants including ethylene oxide, chloroprene, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride — will reduce toxic air pollution near these plants by roughly 6,200 tons annually.'

ehn.org/epa-chemical-p…

“Even in locations with no known source of contamination, 31% of ground water samples exceeded threshold limits proposed in March 2023 by the US EPA, according to the study, and nearly 70% exceeded standards set by Health Canada.” cnn.com/2024/04/08/hea…

This is a map of the U.S. EPA air toxics monitoring stations. Why do none exist in LA and TX? Robert D. Bullard?

You know that thing when you look at a word and think it can't possibly be spelled that way-->
Today's word: guess.

Great new report from Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) about where 2023 EQIP payments went. For ex., $840,722 went to just 2 digesters in Vermont. That money could've instead 'helped 264 farmers implement a conservation crop rotation, or 583 farmers try conservation cover.' iatp.org/costly-versus-…

Multiple people hurt in Texas crash involving as many as 30 vehicles during dust storm apnews.com/article/storms…

In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic.

That's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.

Desert Dust Envelops Portugal and Spain earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152604/…

Toxic Dust Threatens CA Salmon, Lawmaker Seeks Solution

Diane Papan may have a solution for at least 1 part of the salmon deaths: purifying highway runoff of toxic dust from tires that enters streams & rivers during storms

@kqednews KQED Science

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Our Chair, Phil Francis, outlines the critical underfunding crisis of our national parks in his op-ed for The Hill. It's time for action – our parks can't wait.

Dive into the discussion and see how you can help. 👇
thehill.com/opinion/energy…

'We’re on borrowed time,' Felicia Marcus says. 'We need to save more water, even in the wet and the normal years, to get us through the increasingly frequent and drier dries that are inevitably going to come.' latimes.com/environment/st…

'More broadly, the plan also exposes the real-world fallout of quietly festering questions about the reliability of tracking techniques used to determine compliance with a particularly important #airpollution standard.'

eenews.net/articles/epa-d…

“Spread of symptoms among the Michigan herd also indicates that HPAI transmission between cattle cannot be rule out,” said the USDA'

Bird flu found in dairy herds in five states agriculture.com/bird-flu-found… via Successful Farming