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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs

30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.
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Nestlé quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions

Food group Nestlé says it has withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.

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What will the AI data center boom mean for Canada?

Sprawling AI data centers, hungry for land, water and power, are coming. Plans for the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in a drought-stricken region in Alberta.

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Opinion: It’s time we confront the ugly truth about plastic recycling

Recycling doesn’t address any of plastic’s human and environmental impacts. It’s essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities.

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Natural disasters are a rising burden for the National Guard

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.
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US EPA drops planned delay in compliance with fenceline monitoring at coke plants

Residents will no longer have to wait two years to find out whether they are breathing benzene and other contaminants.
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Will a ‘wealth cap’ help the environment? How inequality is fuelling the climate crisis

Climate goals will remain “out of reach” unless lifestyle-related carbon footprints are considerably slashed, a new report warns.
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On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, residents fume as insurers hike rates and invest in fossil fuel projects

Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.
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Detroit is the most challenging city in the US for people with asthma, a new report suggests

Already plagued by industrial pollution and health care access issues, experts say climate change is making things even more difficult for people with asthma in Detroit.
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The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.
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Despite fatal explosion, Alabama suspends methane monitoring above expanding coal mines

Months after a fatal methane explosion destroyed a home and killed a resident above the Oak Grove coal mine, Alabama regulators have indefinitely suspended plans to require methane monitoring at expanding mines—a move experts call “astonishing and reckless.”

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