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For many wildlife biologists in the United States and Canada, the approach to wildlife management is embodied by the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation—a concept that wildlife is held in trust for the public to use and enjoy. It’s a concept that grew from conservationists witnessing the impact of market hunting after European colonization. For some scientists, though, the model could be improved by better weaving in millennia of Indigenous knowledge that preceded the settlers’ arrival.

From The Wildlife Society

The IUCN Congress has come up with a blueprint for a “transformative” deal to protect plants and wildlife, which members hope governments will embrace in Kunming.

Conservationists have called on countries to make the world “nature positive” by 2030 as they hope to shape slow and difficult international negotiations to protect the planet’s plants and wildlife.

From Climate Home News

A joint editorial published simultaneously in biomedical journals across the globe calls for swift and decisive action, noting that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies worldwide will reverse our current trajectory.

From the New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2113200

If the planet warms 2 degrees Celsius, new report warns, Black people are 40 percent more likely than other groups to live in places where extreme temperatures will cause more deaths.

From the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/02/ida-climate-change/

Department of Environmental Quality to inspect industrial sites over next few weeks

From Nola.com

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_ecac5322-0a9e-11ec-aa1a-b3a6500298cd.html

Hundreds of wildfires have already scorched the rainforest this year, and the worst is likely yet to come.

In the summer of 2019, the Amazon captured the world’s attention when large chunks of the iconic rainforest went up in flames and smoke darkened the afternoon sky above São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. The following year proved to be even worse.

And this year?

From Vox
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2021/8/27/22639885/amazon-rainforest-fires-climate-change-2021

Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson sees her work on ocean conservation as linked to issues of social justice and climate. In an e360 interview, she talks about the need to diversify climate science and activism and bring in the perspectives and energy of people of color and women.

From Yale Environment 360

https://e360.yale.edu/features/ocean-justice-where-social-equity-and-the-climate-fight-intersect

For decades, scientists have been tracking extreme thunderstorms created by wildfires. However, the ferocity of the storms that have popped up in Canada in 2021 has surprised them.

From Environmental  News Network

https://www.enn.com/articles/68372-a-summer-of-fire-breathing-smoke-storms

A new study calculates the waste generated by N95 usage and suggests possible ways to reduce it.

From MIT News
https://news.mit.edu/2021/covid-masks-environment-0720