Articles by Senior Staff Writer Anita Hofschneider
Anita Hofschneider is a senior staff writer at Grist based in Honolulu. She is Chamorro from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and spent a decade reporting on local news in Hawaiʻi before joining Gristʻs Indigenous affairs desk. Her work has won dozens of awards, and she was most recently named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
New report slams carbon offset project in Cambodia for violating Indigenous rights
Human Rights Watch alleges Indigenous peoples were thrown off their land in name of conservation.
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![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
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![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
Cash-strapped University of Arizona says climate action can wait
Activists have spent years pushing the university to divest from fossil fuels. With a $177 million deficit, that may not happen.
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![Driftwood logs sit along the shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake]()
![Driftwood logs sit along the shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake]()
As the Klamath River dries, tribal nations and farmers come to rare agreement
“What’s at stake is our very livelihood, our culture, our identities, our way of life."
