Water & Oceans

"Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant"

"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."

Source: NYTimes, 10/16/2025

UN Warns Colombia Over Mercury In Atrato River As Human Rights Emergency

"The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities who depend on the river for food, water and culture."

Source: AP, 10/16/2025

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. Clean Water Elusive in Small Texas Town

"The water isn’t always brown, but Scarlet Weathers lives like it is. Not once has she drank the tap water from her kitchen sink in her house in Sweeny, Texas. She knows, like everyone else in the town, that it can’t be trusted. Even her small grandchildren have noticed it during bathtime. Why is the water brown?"

Source: Capital & Main, 10/15/2025

Booming Data Centers Pose Big Energy And Environmental Risks

"Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and residents weren't having it."

Source: NPR, 10/15/2025

"Saudi-Owned Corporate Farms Are Draining Arizona’s Desert Dry"

"Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells."

Source: Sentient, 10/15/2025

"Nations Meet To Consider Regulations To Drive A Green Transition In Shipping"

"The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions."

Source: AP, 10/15/2025

"A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals"

"For seven years N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to enact PFAS regulations in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/14/2025

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