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    For the Anishinaabe people, the annual wild rice harvest across the Great Lakes is tradition, sustenance, and cultural lifeway. But, the wild rice is at risk, threatened by climate change, mining, water pollution, and now the pipeline.

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  2. 37 minutes ago

    America's current immigration strategies for Central America fail to account for one glaring component: severe weather.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Wildland firefighters protect us. But are we taking care of them?

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    3 hours ago

    For , addresses how a military response is far from the best approach for combatting the climate crisis. Instead, a feminist foreign policy & a feminist response centered around care can help change the trajectory of harm.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Forget "greenwashing." Oil companies are going all Roy G. Biv.

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    3 hours ago

    This week, Pipeline protesters have faced an increasing amount of police violence. The pipeline will cause significant harm to Indigenous communities, including further damage to the decades-long tradition of rice harvesting.

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  7. 4 hours ago

    The new "Energy Earthshots" initiative aims to bring down the cost of clean hydrogen.

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    4 hours ago

    “They’re just looting what remains and leaving us with the financial and environmental fallout.” Must-read deep dive from about how oil and gas companies use bankruptcy to avoid cleaning up their messes

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    7 hours ago

    Being from the west coast, I know very little about wild rice harvesting. I appreciate this coverage from about this practice, the Indigenous people working to maintain it, and the intersection of this work with the fight against :

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  10. 5 hours ago

    The former U.N. secretary-general on the dinner parties that led to the Paris Agreement.

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    5 hours ago

    If you're following the protests against Line 3, this piece is a must-read. does a deep dive into Native treaty rights, wild rice harvests, and the fight to block Line 3.

    I've been working on a story about Line 3 since last summer, and you can read it now . It's about wild rice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the threats that the new Line 3 could pose to the sensitive watersheds of northern Minnesota (THREAD)
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  12. 5 hours ago

    ⚡️ “The Line 3 pipeline protests are about much more than climate change” by

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    6 hours ago

    I've been working on a story about Line 3 since last summer, and you can read it now . It's about wild rice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the threats that the new Line 3 could pose to the sensitive watersheds of northern Minnesota (THREAD)

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    6 hours ago

    Climate change, rampant overgrowth of fuel, and an ever-expanding rural population make the job of wildland firefighters harder every year. Are we taking care of them? An important story from as we approach wildfire season:

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  15. 7 hours ago

    Join Grist Fixer Davida Herzl, Ms. Margaret Gordon, and Jack Broadbent in a conversation about how the modernization of air monitoring has helped implement community-led solutions in West Oakland.

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    7 hours ago

    Today at 1p ET, will host a sweeping discussion on how the modernization of air pollution measurement and analysis can support community-led solutions. - Register here: - Or watch on our streaming channel:

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  17. 7 hours ago

    "If we have water rights, which I believe we do, then you need our consent to even cross the waters or use the waters for another purpose that we think is harmful. When we get to that consent place, it’s going to change the dynamics across the nation.”

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  18. 7 hours ago

    Bibeau sees the appearance of the words “wild rice” in the 1837 treaty as a crucial part of the fight against Line 3. Honor the Earth and the White Earth Band of Ojibwe have filed multiple rounds of legal challenges to Line 3 based on these treaty rights.

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  19. 7 hours ago

    In present-day Minnesota, the Anishinaabe — specifically, the Ojibwe —people’s first large land concession was an 1837 treaty, where negotiators made certain that the Anishinaabe retained use rights to the land ceded by the treaty for hunting, fishing, and gathering of wild rice.

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  20. 7 hours ago

    Bibeau, who is a lawyer for , has been fighting Line 3 in the courts for years, and he sees a unique opportunity in the legal battle. He says the case may be an opportunity to force the state to recognize Indigenous treaty rights.

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  21. 7 hours ago

    LaDuke has been fighting the pipeline in court and at regulatory hearings since the beginning. “I’ve testified at so many hearings. Then they kept asking us to testify again. How many times do you ask your people to come out and cry for a judge?”

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