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The link between climate disasters and authoritarian regimes
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m L.V. Anderson (or Laura to my colleagues), a senior editor at Grist, and I’m taking over the newsletter today to give you a wide-angle look at how climate change is affecting democracy not just in the U.S., but around the world. One of the biggest stories […]
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Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?
There's evidence that global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power.
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More farms are turning to automation amid labor shortages
Climate change is making farm work more difficult and dangerous. But workers worry technology could lead to further exploitation.
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Chronic health problems amplify heat risk in the Rio Grande Valley
The deaths of two elderly siblings and their 60-year-old caretaker at first mystified Brownsville. Extreme heat is a quiet but growing threat for Rio Grande Valley residents with chronic health conditions.
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Extreme Weather
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When hurricane evacuation isn’t an option
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Recuperación por el huracán Helene: Cómo orientarse en temas de FEMA, limpieza por las inundaciones, fraude durante desastres y mucho más
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Wildfires are coming to the Southeast. Can landowners mitigate the risk in time?
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After Milton, Florida assesses damage from back-to-back climate disasters
Indigenous Affairs
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Will exploratory lithium mining in Arizona continue near a sacred hot spring?
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Indigenous voters worry a Harris presidency means endangering sacred lands
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What a second Trump presidency could mean for Indigenous peoples
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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A former Utah coal town could soon become a hub for low-carbon cement
Terra CO2 wants to make cement additives from mining waste. The startup could get a $52.6 million DOE grant to build a clean energy factory near Salt Lake City.
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Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data shows
Postville, Iowa, has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer.
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Helene and Milton upended a key part of the nation’s agriculture system
America depends on Southeastern agriculture. After two hurricanes and billions of dollars in damages, the US food supply chain faces an uncertain future.
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‘Tattoos for the climate concerned’: Why people are getting inked for the planet
Faced with a future of uncertainty and change, four people share the climate messages they chose to wear forever.
Watch This
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive — and probably illegal
Does changing the shape of the recycling symbol make it any less misleading?
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The water election that wasn’t
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to shift the focus away from the storm-battered Southeast and take a look at one of the nation’s hottest battleground states. Election Day is just two weeks away, and the high-octane race for president is consuming almost all the media’s […]
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One issue will decide Arizona’s future. Nobody’s campaigning on it.
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.
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The flood that forced a housing reckoning in Vermont
The interconnected climate and housing crises are putting some Montpelier residents one disaster away from homelessness.
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