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Environment & Climate
Global Surge in Violence Against Environmental and Indigenous Defenders Persists Despite Landmark Legal Protections
The year 2025 emerged as a period of profound contradiction for the global human rights movement. While international tribunals and…
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Chicago Launches Nation’s Largest Hyperlocal Air Quality Network to Combat Environmental Inequity and Climate-Driven Smog
As the midday sun glints off the glass facades of Chicago’s Loop, Serap Erdal, a professor of environmental and occupational…
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The Wood Pellet Industry and the Fight for Environmental Justice in North Carolina
The quiet landscape of Faison, North Carolina, changed significantly when the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, Enviva Biomass, established…
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Federal Funding for Oakland Coal Terminal Ignites New Legal and Environmental Battles Amid National Energy Policy Shift
The long-standing conflict over the construction of a massive export terminal in Oakland, California, has entered a volatile new chapter…
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Climate Refugees Face Vanishing Horizons as US Immigration Policies Tighten Amid Global Environmental Crisis
The intersection of escalating global temperatures and restrictive migration policies has created a burgeoning humanitarian crisis, leaving millions of people…
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Utah Stratos Project Sparks Environmental Debate as Governor Rejects Natural Gas Monopoly for Massive Data Center
The landscape of northern Utah is currently the center of a high-stakes confrontation between rapid industrial expansion and environmental preservation.…
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Massive Stratos Data Center Proposal Sparks Environmental and Political Firestorm in Rural Utah Hansel Valley
The proposal for a "hyperscale" data center in the remote Hansel Valley of northern Utah has ignited a fierce debate,…
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The Crisis of Contamination in Sampson County: North Carolina’s Largest Landfill and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
For more than half a century, the landscape of Sampson County, North Carolina, has been defined by the steady, unrelenting…
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Environmental Protections Under Siege as Illinois Agencies Clash Over Endangered Species and Infrastructure Demands
In the winding creeks and sediment-rich rivers of southern Illinois, the presence of the bigeye shiner—a delicate, translucent freshwater fish…
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The Paradox of Progress Indigenous Sovereignty and the Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence
Indigenous leaders and environmental advocates at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) have issued a stark warning…
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