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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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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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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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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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
More climate fiction
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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