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Sep 18, 2024, 11:08 am By Jess ZhangThe vision “Narrative agency is most important when reminding people of their own ability to…‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis
Sep 18, 2024, 4:45 am By María Paula Rubiano A.The panic button hanging around Marcos’ neck evokes the death threat that pulled him out of the…Opposing fracking cost one Colombian activist her mental health. She’s fighting to win it back.
Sep 18, 2024, 4:40 am By María Paula Rubiano A.Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, a Colombian environmental advocate, received her first death threat…Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons
Sep 18, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla YounesSince she began studying mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Stanford University, Ufuoma…The elected officials making political hay from disasters
Sep 17, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake BittleHello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake, and today we’re going to be…London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
Sep 17, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris ValentineRestricting the volume of high-emitting vehicles roaming city streets carries many benefits, from…Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?
Sep 17, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-MullerEarly into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark…How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations
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Sep 16, 2024, 4:40 am By Tristan AhtoneDespite tribes’ status as autonomous, sovereign nations, lands on federal Indian reservations…Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.
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Sep 15, 2024, 9:00 am By Maria GallucciWhen John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to…‘Weather whiplash’ helped drive this year’s California wildfires
Sep 14, 2024, 9:00 am By Caroline Marshall Reinhart, Inside Climate NewsWhile many Californians are praying for rain heavy enough to slow the spread of the 6,078 fires that…No one should be surprised that South America is burning
Sep 13, 2024, 2:32 pm By Tik RootSouth America is experiencing its worst forest fire season in nearly two decades, with millions of…The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder“Freedom” is often a Republican talking point, but Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to…The Gulf Coast is sinking, making hurricanes like Francine even more dangerous
Sep 11, 2024, 6:35 pm By Matt SimonHurricane Francine barreled into southern Louisiana on Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, packing 100…
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