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Who’s behind the destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado?
Some of the world’s largest pension funds bet big on Brazilian farmland. Communities - and the climate - are paying the price.
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Black families passed their homes from one generation to the next
Now they may be lost.
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‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.'
The West’s largest green energy storage project would destroy a Yakama sacred site. Now, the nation is fighting back.
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Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’
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When the Heat Is Unbearable but There’s Nowhere to Go
Winner - Front Page Award in category “Best Investigative Magazine Feature” and Association for Journalists and Authors Award in the category “ Writing for Social Change” / Finalist - Victor K. McElheny Award in science journalism
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Missing Forests Are Messing With Climate Targets
Countries are using forests to pad their climate commitments. New satellite images might call their bluff.
Features
Audubon Magazine
The Cerrado, the World’s Most Biodiverse Tropical Savannah, Is in Peril
High Country News
A Just Transition for Farmworkers
Undark
In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones
In Cape Cod, New Efforts to Coexist With Sharks
Biographic
Mongabay
In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna
Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change
Investigations
High Country News/Type Investigations
When the heat is unbearable but there’s nowhere to go
The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink
The Nation
They’re Supposed to Be Socially Conscious Investors. Why Are They Funding the War on Gaza?
The Guardian
Black families passed their homes from one generation to the next. Now they may be lost
Mongabay
Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group
Communities in Brazilian Cerrado besieged by global demand for soy
Deutsche Welle
News and Commentary
The New York Times
Why Are We Still Strip-Searching Prisoners?
Time Magazine
Green Fuels Are Accelerating Shipping Decarbonization
Community Solar Is Filling an Important Gap in the Clean Energy Transition
The Design Firm Making Net-Zero Emissions Buildings a Reality
How the Cement Industry Is Creating Carbon-Negative Building Materials
Air Conditioning Has a Big Climate Impact. This New Technology Could be a Game Changer
The Small Change Hospitals Are Making That Has a Big Impact on Cutting Emissions
Film and TV’s Carbon Footprint Is Too Big to Ignore
How Electric Bikes Can Cut Delivery Emissions in Cities
The New Republic
How New York Could Help Save Forests Around the World
Wired
Missing Forests Are Messing With Climate Targets
Geoengineering’s Gender Problem Could Put the Planet at Risk
Mongabay
Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’
U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests
Cargill rejects Cerrado soy moratorium, pledges $30 million search for ideas
Cattle put Paraguay’s Chaco biome at high risk, but report offers hope
Fears of a dire precedent as Brazil seeks results-based REDD+ payment
Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it
Proposed copper mine modifications spark community outcry in Peru
High Country News
What’s missing in California’s solar debate
Portland community leaders bring the heat to building standards
A shellfish company gets into the weeds
‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’
Wildfires’ unequal impacts on pregnant people
Can younger generations spur corporations to divest from fossil fuels?
Home after fire: A new housing model aims to give kids stability
Why investing in libraries is a climate justice issue
Free, prior and informed consent ‘is more than just a checklist’
Vice News
Phoenix is trying to fight deadly heat — and we should all take note
Alligators, dead chickens, and E. coli: This is what lurks in the Florence floodwaters
A grandma chained herself inside a Ford Pinto to try to stop a fracked gas pipeline in West Virginia
Fashion’s crippling impact on the environment is only getting worse
New York City and State
Gillibrand’s climate plan ignores cities
New York’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil has begun, here’s what it could mean
