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Since 2005, about 60% of print newsroom jobs have vanished. This summer, major networks aired 194 heat wave segments. None mentioned climate change. What’s next for climate journalism? buff.ly/2TnQmP6
#Journalism #ClimateJournalism #EnvironmentalJournalism #News
Iowa has the nation’s worst water quality and fastest-rising cancer rate. Now farm pollution is on the ballot, with candidates from both parties talking nitrates and cancer. buff.ly/dssm122
#Iowa #WaterQuality #IowaPolitics #Election2026 #Midterms #Agriculture
He set out to overturn 10,000 years of farming. Fifty years later, perennial grains like Kernza are taking root on 4,000+ acres in 15 states. buff.ly/APnBz08 #PerennialGrain #Kernza
2.9 cases per 100,000 people: Legionnaires' disease rates in 2025 were the second-highest on record, up 50% since the pandemic. NYC saw the worst of it: buff.ly/qT90Gxv #Legionnaires #PublicHealth #WaterQuality #DrinkingWater #WaterSafety #WaterborneDisease #NewYorkCity
Lake Mead and Lake Powell just hit their lowest combined storage since before Glen Canyon Dam existed. 95% of the Colorado River basin is in drought. Circle of Blue and True Elements just launched a live data platform tracking it in real time.
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Chippewa Falls, WI built its name on clean water. But while the city treats its own supply, thousands on private wells nearby are drinking rising nitrate levels — "It was 10 when I got there. Now it's 20." buff.ly/FdLn51r
#Nitrate #WaterQuality #CleanWater #DrinkingWater
A coal plant in rural Indiana was set to close in 2025. Instead, it's being kept running — to power AI data centers. Residents who fought decades of coal ash contamination now face a new industrial wave, and their water is caught in the middle.
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Lake Mead: 24% full. Lake Powell: 28%. State negotiations: deadlocked.
But local water managers across the West aren't waiting — they're striking deals, sharing water, and keeping taps running.
The quiet story of neighbors helping neighbors: circleofblue.org/2026/soluti…
Indigenous communities stewarded the Boundary Waters with fire for centuries. Colonization stopped that — and the fuel has been building ever since.
Now researchers, land managers & tribal nations are bringing prescribed burns back.
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Five years after Minnesota's Greenwood Fire, the lakes in the burn scar are still murky, acidic, and nutrient-loaded.
Wildfire damage to freshwater isn't temporary — it's sustained. And fire risk in the Upper Midwest now rivals the American West.
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The new state law targets some of the largest sources of PFAS: treatment plants and industrial facilities with permits to discharge pollutants issued under the federal Clean Water Act.
Illinois passed a PFAS monitoring law days after the federal EPA moved to roll back forever chemical protections.
When Washington retreats, states step up — but a bill making manufacturers pay for cleanup is running out of time.
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#PFAS #DrinkingWater
The Menominee are the "people of the wild rice" — but it's been gone from their waters for over 100 years. Now they're bringing it back with red clay balls packed with seeds, dropped by hand into lakebeds.
The first rice is beginning to emerge.
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The Rio Grande through Albuquerque is completely dry — and it's only May.
The river usually dries in July. This year it happened two months early.
Albuquerque has shut off its river intake and is running 100% on groundwater.
#RioGrande #Drought #Environment
The worst drinking water in America is in small towns — and it's getting worse.
S&P just downgraded small water utilities for the first time. Now Congress wants to cut their main funding by 24%.
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Illinois failed to pass the POWER Act — requiring data centers to disclose water use & source clean energy.
Same week: UN warned AI data centers consumed 1.2 TRILLION gallons of water last year. By 2030: 2.5 trillion.
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Hoover Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff circleofblue.org/2026/water-… via @circleofblue
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Op-ed: Iowa's biggest political issue is cancer.
For decades, farm pollution was treated as untouchable. Now, candidates from both parties are talking about nitrate-contaminated drinking water and rising cancer rates.
✍️ @modeshift of @circleofblue
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At 1,035 feet above sea level, Hoover Dam loses the ability to run most of its turbines — and hydropower output drops by 70%. That threshold could be breached as soon as August 2026.
#ColoradoRiver #LakeMead #HooverDam #Hydropower #WaterCrisis #Drought #WesternWater #WaterPolicy
Illinois passed a PFAS monitoring law days after the federal EPA moved to roll back forever chemical protections.
When Washington retreats, states step up — but a bill making manufacturers pay for cleanup is running out of time.
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#PFAS #DrinkingWater
Climate disasters aren't just destroying homes. They're breaking water systems — and sending the bill to residents...
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#WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #WaterInfrastructure #EatonFire #HurricaneHelene #Drought #WaterUtilities #WaterPolicy #WaterSecurity