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Caitlin Looby

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Milwaukee, Saint Paul
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Covers:  Environment, climate change, energy, agriculture, conservation tech, tropics
Great Lakes reporter @journalsentinel via @Report4America || Climate & soil scientist || Story tips: clooby@gannett.com || she/her
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As Gulf Coast dolphin strandings rise, scientists see a warning of greater ecological strains

As Gulf Coast dolphin strandings rise, scientists see a warning of greater ecological strains

The Times-Picayune, New Orleans Advocate — As temperatures rise and New Orleanians head to Gulf Coast beaches, they could be greeted by an unsettling sight: the bodies of dolphins, dead or close to it, covered in brown prune-like lesions and washed ashore along the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts.
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Nutria bounty (yes, the nutria bounty) in Louisiana rises after 'uptake in damage'

Nutria bounty (yes, the nutria bounty) in Louisiana rises after 'uptake in damage'

The Times-Picayune, New Orleans Advocate — Louisiana's most infamous semi-aquatic rodent - with webbed toes and Cheetos-colored buck teeth - now has a higher bounty on its head. After three years of low nutria catches, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has raised from $5 to $6 the amount it will pay for each nutria killed in the upcoming 2019-20 season.
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A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Mongabay — Sitting in a cloud forest on top of the Cordillera de Tilarán, the mountaintop town of Monteverde, Costa Rica seems isolated. But, its view stretches far beyond its boundaries. In today's world, many believe that individual actions cannot make a difference. However, in Monteverde one community, made up of many individuals, has become the driving force behind conservation.
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Empowering communities fighting new mines: an interview with filmmaker Jessie Landerman

Empowering communities fighting new mines: an interview with filmmaker Jessie Landerman

news.mongabay.com — It is no secret that mining destroys environments and communities throughout the world. But, beneath the surface there are specific details that are not as widely known. Communities affected by mining sometimes suffer a myriad of human rights abuses. And communities often confront mining companies not knowing how other impacted communities have protected or supported themselves.
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Reef Market Economy: Energetics key to keeping fish in the sea and the store

Reef Market Economy: Energetics key to keeping fish in the sea and the store

news.mongabay.com — Food chains are typically represented as trophic pyramids. These pyramids are made up of various trophic levels, which are the positions each species holds in the food chain. In coral reefs, lower trophic levels include small fish and invertebrates. The highest tropic levels consist of fish that consume other fish, known as piscivores.
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Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

Murky future for freshwater fish in the Amazon floodplains

news.mongabay.com — Such changes are not only ecologically significant: fish are an important source of protein for people residing in these regions, and these life-sustaining fisheries are now imperiled by overfishing and climate change. Climate change is increasing drought intensity and frequency - and this is likely to impact freshwater fish populations in the Amazon and beyond.
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A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

news.mongabay.com — Islands possess many unique gifts from evolution. Their isolation from the mainland give them an identity all their own: these small pieces of land are often filled with species that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. Christmas Island is no exception.
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Discovering the Congo carbon sink

Discovering the Congo carbon sink

news.mongabay.com — "If the peat was to somehow be drained and burned, then the release of the carbon into the atmosphere would be a grave blow to the global attempts to mitigate climate change," said Dr. Fiona Maisels, advisor for the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) wildlife survey and monitoring programs in Central Africa.
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The Planet Can't Stand This Presidency: Cloud forests

The Planet Can't Stand This Presidency: Cloud forests

The New York Times — I was sitting on the patio of the Cafe Caburé looking across a dirt road into the densely forested Bajo del Tigre Reserve. A car drove by, kicking up a dust cloud. These are not the clouds you look for in the damp, verdant cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica. But it had been a really dry year.
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