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. You can reach her at ahofschneider@grist.org
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![digital collage of portrait of Indigenous woman on photo of ocean]()
![digital collage of portrait of Indigenous woman on photo of ocean]()
What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like?
From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.
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![Activists demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice in July 2025.]()
![Activists demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice in July 2025.]()
Trump axes climate reporting program, ignoring international courts and frontline communities
“There is an international responsibility here, even if the U.S. still tries to deny that there is one."
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![A sailing ship is seen in a harbor surrounded by lush palm trees and mountains on a sunny, idyllic day]()
![A sailing ship is seen in a harbor surrounded by lush palm trees and mountains on a sunny, idyllic day]()
American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.
The CEO of a seabed mining startup says the decision about mining leases will be made in Washington, D.C.
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![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
