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Public enemy: data centers

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse.

A better world’s in birth

As the climate warms, new data shows huge swaths of land across the globe are quickly drying, threatening humanity’s supply of fresh water.

While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.

Lithium mining in Serbia reveals the ever-expanding extractivist frontiers and integration of peripheries. Yet, the resistance to the lithium mining project, serves as a testament to the possibility of fighting for alternative sustainable futures.

The state’s just transition plans promised by the Energy Transition Act haven’t panned out for many workers.