Unearthed: The Mining Issue
Unearthed: The Mining Issue
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![A group of protestors in front of snowy mountains hold up a sign reading YELLOWSTONE IS NOT FOR SALE]()
![A group of protestors in front of snowy mountains hold up a sign reading YELLOWSTONE IS NOT FOR SALE]()
Yellowstone’s gateway town fears for its future amid Trump funding cuts
“Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.”
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![Reeds in the water in front of the Mackinac Bridge.]()
![Reeds in the water in front of the Mackinac Bridge.]()
Why Indigenous nations are walking away from pipeline talks in Michigan
Experts say tribes are protesting federal agencies as Trump fast-tracks oil and gas projects.
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![Members of the Buffalo Nations Food Sovereignty community dig into soil with shovels in a sunny garden]()
![Members of the Buffalo Nations Food Sovereignty community dig into soil with shovels in a sunny garden]()
How Trump’s funding freeze for Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law
According to Indigenous legal experts, the freeze erodes the little trust Indian country has in the federal government.
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![scrambled eggs (made from a vegan egg substitute) being moved around by a rubber spatula in a frying pan]()
Egg prices hit record highs. Are you ready to try a vegan egg?
Bird flu has apparently done what environmentalists have long dreamed of: made Americans curious about egg alternatives.
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Extreme Weather
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Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households
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‘It’s all been scrapped’: Bootcamps for women in wildland firefighting canceled after DEI cuts
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US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’
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How the Eaton Fire destroyed a delicate truce over Altadena’s future
Indigenous Affairs
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
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Most critical minerals are on Indigenous lands. Will miners respect tribal sovereignty?
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A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?
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Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
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The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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![Oil pump jacks at the Elk Hills oil field in Kern County, California.]()
Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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![Collage featuring warehouse worker carrying cardboard box off-gassing ethylene oxide]()
An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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![Collage of farmworkers carrying produce, snippets of a dollar bill, and tomatoes — all centered around an empty dinner plate]()
The people who feed America are going hungry
More climate fiction
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![Smoke rising above an industrial complex decorated with an American flag]()
![Smoke rising above an industrial complex decorated with an American flag]()
Congress is searching for trillions of dollars in cuts. Will the oil industry’s tax breaks skate by?
With a $4.5 trillion fight over tax cuts looming, the oil and gas industry wants to protect billions of dollars in tax benefits it enjoys and get new ones, too.
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![A Group of students march with a sign that says fossil free I'm sorry it's not that hard]()
![A Group of students march with a sign that says fossil free I'm sorry it's not that hard]()
Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state.
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![an aerial view of half a dozen neighborhood blocks blackened and razed by fire damage]()
1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones
After the L.A. fires, updated hazard maps show “we are living in a new reality of extremes."
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Tariffs won’t just hit your wallet. They could also increase food waste.
From farm to retail, the threat of trade barriers is already impacting the food supply chain.
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![A man stands looking out in the distance on his farm]()
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The $20B question hanging over America’s struggling farmers
Extreme weather wiped out billions in crops last year — but most federal aid may end up going to the wrong farms.
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![Fire victims meet with FEMA officials on January 14, 2025 in Pasadena, California, where a FEMA opened a recovery center to help residents who lost their homes or businesses.]()
![Fire victims meet with FEMA officials on January 14, 2025 in Pasadena, California, where a FEMA opened a recovery center to help residents who lost their homes or businesses.]()
Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap?
Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed.
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![Collage of cyclist riding in bike lane, dollar bill, and smokestack]()
The government aims to cut funding for safer streets. Here’s who would be hurt most.
The Department of Transportation considers freezing funding for bike lanes and other pedestrian safety projects as the Trump administration leans into fossil fuels.
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The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending.
Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.
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