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Current approaches for planning relocation for potentially millions of people affected by climate change and related risks are “woefully inadequate” and risk worsening societal inequities, experts wrote in a policy perspective on June 17 in Science. Policymakers and scientists need to rethink how they work together to develop, communicate and carry out relocation plans.

From Phys.org

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-tools-effectively-relocation-displaced-climate.html

A sculpture created out of electronic waste in the likeness of Mount Rushmore and the G-7 leaders sits on a hill in Cornwall, England, near where the leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations recently met.

From NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263805/a-mount-rushmore-of-recycling-puts-an-avalanche-of-waste-in-the-faces-of-g-7-lea

Low water levels and high temperatures mean juvenile Chinook salmon are being given a helping hand to reach the ocean.

From the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/11/california-to-transport-17m-salmon-to-the-sea-by-truck-as-drought-bites

A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia with “causing no detectable species losses or disturbances”

From the BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57388939

Legislature seeks to strip funding of Hawaii’s largest tourism agency, just as it refocuses on community and environment

From the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/07/hawaii-bill-seeks-to-cut-funding-protect-environment

The number of ships using a ‘flag of convenience’ loophole that allows them to be scrapped in a place with lax environmental regulations is skyrocketing.

From Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01391-3

Normally, mountain forests are among the most diverse habitats in alpine regions.

From Environmental News Network

https://www.enn.com/articles/67857-less-forest-more-species

Little is known concerning environmental contaminants in predators at the top of a food chain. A study has demonstrated that new types of brominated flame retardants accumulate in the tissues of killer whales near Norway and are also passed on to nursing offspring.

From Science Daily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210519120706.htm

Young activists are breathing new life into the long-running debate over climate justice – the framing of global warming as an ethical issue rather than a purely environmental one.

From the BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56941979