Unearthed: The Mining Issue
Unearthed: The Mining Issue
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Trump takes aim at the people who protect national parks from climate change
After mass firings and rehiring, thousands of federal employees are bracing for deeper cuts — just as wildfires, floods, and rising temperatures threaten national parks.
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![Digital illustration of vintage illustrations of a blue whale and a fin whale with a sound wave separating them]()
![Digital illustration of vintage illustrations of a blue whale and a fin whale with a sound wave separating them]()
What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change
A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves.
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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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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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![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]()
![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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![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]()
![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]()
![A man stands looking out in the distance on his farm]()
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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