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Overnight News Digest: Award-winning science writing & species rescued from extinction [1]
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Date: 2022-11-26
On
https://t.co/jOlsR11mbR and dailyclimate today: My third annual list of a dozen environmental journos & fellow travelers Im thankful for, with links to the 2021 and 2020 lists. Thanks!
https://t.co/41Is9sReYi
Henry started warning about Lake Erie’s impending toxic algae crisis in 1993. It hit home for Henry’s Toledo Blade readership in 2014 when half a million people temporarily lost their drinking water source. I profiled him and several other prophets of eco-doom for Ensia in 2017.
A Force of Nature you’ve probably never heard of. A “backpack journalist” and ultramarathoner who’s traipsed through Libya and the Himalayas in search of stories about shrinking glaciers and the growing empowerment of women. This story about Kashmiri glaciers is a dozen years old, but you get the picture.
Author of remarkable books about water in its most indelible forms: Rain, seashells, and water crises in the U.S., especially in her home state, Florida.
Science Reporting – Large Outlet
Juliet Eilperin and Salwan Georges The Washington Post
This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? (old growth timber)
Christoph von Eichhorn, Sandra Hartung, Christian Helten and Sarah Unterhitzenberger SZ.de (Sϋddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)
Anatomy of a killer (COVID)
Science Reporting – Small Outlet
Ankur Paliwal FiftyTwo (India)
Off Balance (a rare genetic disease)
Liza Gross and Anne Marshall-Chalmers Inside Climate News
A California Water Board Assures the Public that Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation, But Experts Say the Evidence Is Scant (irrigating with oil field wastewater)
Science Reporting – In-Depth (More than 5,000 words)
Lulu Ramadan, Ash Ngu, Maya Miller and Nadia Sussman The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica “Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem” — thematic series
The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe. (pre-harvest burning of sugar cane)
Jane Qiu MIT Technology Review
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy (Shi Zhengli at Wuhan Institute of Virology)
Magazine
Kendra Pierre-Louis MIT Technology Review
How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities (impact on existing infrastructure could be catastrophic)
Lois Parshley Grist
Don’t Look Down—As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing. (how thawing permafrost is affecting societies in Alaska)
VIDEO
Josh Cassidy, Gabriela Quirós, Lesley McClurg, Elyse DeFranco, Teodros Hailye, Kia Simon and Seth Samuel, KQED and PBS Digital Studios (3 different Deep Look videos)
Yara Elmjouie, Adrienne Blaine, Shadi Rahimi, Matias Sesti and Michael Bendeck, AJ+ (Al Jazeera Media Network)
The bizarre COVID side effect no one is talking about (parosmia, a condition that causes the sense of smell to go haywire)
Video In-Depth Reporting (more than 20 minutes)
David Allen, Martin Dohrn, Gaby Bastyra, David Guy Elisco, Sean B. Carroll and Fred Kaufman
PBS Nature
My Garden of a Thousand Bees (an exercise in citizen science, driven by Dohrn’s deep appreciation and understanding of the more than 60 species of bees he found and observed in his garden.)
Bella Falk and David Dugan, A NOVA Production by Windfall Films, Ltd. (part of the Argonon Group) for GBH
Ice Age Footprints (prints that capture moments when humans crossed paths with now-extinct Ice Age beasts)
Audio
Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Julia Nutter, Pran Bandi, Annie Avilés and Pete Lang-Stanton, VICE News — A Show About Animals (3 episodes)
A Talking Gorilla (reviews the history of Project Koko)
Ann Jones, Petria Ladgrove, Joel Werner and Jo Khan, ABC Science (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Does it fart?” (animal farts and the scientific reasons)
Children’s Science News
Sarah Zielinski, Maria Temming and JoAnna Wendel, Science News Explores
Cockatoos learn from each other how to open garbage bins
Dasol Lee, Kids Donga Science (South Korea)
On a journey to finding a happy zoo — Link to the stories and their translations:
http://bit.ly/3EgdH8c
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