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Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota

Mining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could threaten local water supply and Indigenous culture.

By Karina Atkins

Native Americans Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Rice Lake in north central Minnesota. The Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Aitkin County, in north central Minnesota, is home to pristine a 4,500-acre body of water that provides the wild rice harvest that the Ojibwe have depended on for countless generations.
Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

In Clewiston, Florida, a sugar cane field in the Everglades Agricultural Area. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot

By Amy Green

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

In Arcadia, Florida, Mac Martin looks at flooding along the railroad tracks at the Peace River in October 2022 in Arcadia, nearly a week after Hurricane Ian made landfall on the gulf coast. The Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area would include the watersheds of the Peace River and shore up protection for a region that suffered heavy damage from the hurricane. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images.

Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Sprawling Conservation Area in Everglades Watershed

By Amy Green

A small herd of Woodland Caribou on the tundra, Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Credit: by DeAgostini/Getty Images.

Corn Harvests in the Yukon? Study Finds That Climate Change Will Boost Likelihood That Wilderness Gives Way to Agriculture

By Kiley Price

A dragonfly on a branch at Lake Asboga in the Sarikamis district of Kars, Turkey, in August 2023. Credit: Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.

Like Canaries in a Coal Mine, Dragonflies Signal Threats to Freshwater Ecosystems

By Juanita Gordon

"This is a particularly stupid reservoir," says rancher Deirdre Macnab, who opposes the Wolf Creek Reservoir project, "and we can’t afford stupid reservoir projects.” Credit: Lee Pruitt

As the Colorado River Declines, Some Upstream Look to Use it Before They Lose it

By Wyatt Myskow

A farm in Iowa is surrounded by flood water. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images.

As Climate-Fueled Weather Disasters Hit More U.S. Farms, the Costs of Insuring Agriculture Have Skyrocketed

By Georgina Gustin

Kristen Pogreba-Brown collects data on ticks on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Exposures to these ticks can come from household pets and cause bacterial diseases like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kristen Pogreba-Brown.

Could ‘One Health’ be the Optimal Approach for Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

By Emma Peterson

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

By Lydia Larsen

Paiter-Surui volunteers alongside "forest engineers" from a Brazillian Government support program using GPS equipment to map and measure the trees and vegetation in the "7th September Indian Reserve" in Rondônia, Brazil. This information is intended to later be used to calculate the forest carbon content as part of REDD+, which stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project" was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. Credit: Craig Stennett/Getty Images.

Carbon Offsets to Reduce Deforestation Are Significantly Overestimating Their Impact, a New Study Finds

By Keerti Gopal

Standing in his composting site at the Filbert Street Garden in Curtis Bay, Marvin Hayes shows off what he calls 'Black Gold' -- the end product derived from turning food scraps and yard trim into compost, which is well documented to protect the environment, sequester carbon and make communities resilient. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City.

By Aman Azhar

The disastrous Pajaro flood made the home Emilio Vasquez rents with his family unlivable. He's still waiting to hear when he can move back in. Credit: Liza Gross

A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis

By Liza Gross

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

A worker moves newly-delivered pork to a wholesale butcher at Smithfield Market on Feb. 14, 2023 in London, England. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

International Lenders Continue Pouring Money Into Meat and Dairy, Despite Climate Promises

By Georgina Gustin

In a file photo, a Cargill facility on the Tapajos River in Santarem, a town on the trans-Amazonian highyway, in Brazil's Para state. Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

In an aerial view, ranchers and other participants gather to observe cattle grazing in freshly opened pasture using adaptive grazing at CS Ranch, as they take part in the Soil Health Academy which teaches regenerative agriculture techniques, on June 1, 2022 in Cimarron, New Mexico. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon

By Emma Peterson

A farmer harvests corn on Oct. 22, 2015 near Burlington, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs Are Giving Millions to Farms That Worsen Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

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