Anita Hofschneider
LATEST ARTICLES BY Anita Hofschneider
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Environment
Thawing Alaskan permafrost is releasing more mercury, confirming scientists’ worst fears
August 27, 2024"It has that sense of a bomb that's going to go off."
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Environment
How an Aboriginal woman fought a coal company and won
June 3, 2024Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, a 29-year-old Wirdi woman of the Birri Gubba Nation, led a lawsuit against the coal company in 2021 and won.
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En español
Los defensores indígenas en la ONU dicen que la transición verde no es ni limpia ni justa
April 24, 2024
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Environment
Indigenous advocates at the UN say the green transition is neither clean nor just
April 24, 2024Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.
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En español
EE.UU. enterró desechos nucleares en el extranjero, el calentamiento global podría desenterrarlos
February 29, 2024
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Environment
Decades after the U.S. buried nuclear waste abroad, global warming could unearth it
February 28, 2024A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
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Environment
Biden protected the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon – uranium mining is happening there anyway
February 15, 2024There's a long, nasty history of uranium mining on Native lands, but the company says this time is different.
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Environment
Why more than 60 indigenous nations stand against the Line 5 oil pipeline
January 30, 2024The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”
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