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Nearly All of World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered [9]

"If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Science [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Source: New York Times [18], 10/26/2026
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New Famine Risk Haunts War-Torn Sudan With El Niño-Driven Drought [19]

"After more than three years of war, a lull in fighting raised hopes that a good harvest would ease hunger in Sudan. Instead, El Niño has delivered a damaging drought and, in some areas, led to the lowest rainfall since 1984, the year famine devastated Sudan and Ethiopia."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [22]
Military [23]
People & Population [24]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Africa [25]
Middle East [26]
Source: Reuters [27], 10/26/2026
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PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated: New Study [28]

"Researchers found that treating PFAS measurements below laboratory reporting limits as “zero” may underestimate how widespread the chemicals are in U.S. drinking water."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 10/26/2026
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Alabama’s New Data Center Rules Still Leave Customers in the Dark: Critics [33]

"“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Source: Inside Climate News [39], 10/26/2026
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Landmark Youth Climate Trial Against Canadian Government Is About to Begin [40]

"The trial, which starts Monday, comes as Canada rolls back climate policies. A new government report warns the country could experience 5 degrees Celsius of warming under current emissions trajectories."

Activism [41]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
Canada [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 10/26/2026
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Oil and Tech Money Back Measure to Limit California Environmental Law [45]

"Proposition 45 would ease development of a wide range of projects, including some fossil-fuel facilities and possibly AI data centers."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Technology [46]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [47]
Source: Capital & Main [48], 10/23/2026
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W. Va. Investigates Green Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Climate Change Advocacy [49]

"West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving “unfair or deceptive acts” in their fundraising and climate change advocacy."

Activism [41]
Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [50]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [51]
People & Population [24]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Source: AP [53], 10/23/2026
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Suspends Permit For Major Amazon Gold Mine [54]

"Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest, dealing a setback to a Canadian company’s plans to develop an open-pit mine along a river already affected by one of the country’s largest hydroelectric dams."

Chemicals [29]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [51]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
South America [55]
Source: AP [56], 10/23/2026
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Pakistan Workers Swelter In Extreme Heat Despite Brands' Safety Pledges [57]

"Machines whirred around Siddiqui as her vision blurred and her heart hammered. The garment factory on the outskirts of Karachi was sweltering."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [42]
People & Population [24]
Public [15]
Asia [58]
Source: AP [59], 10/23/2026
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Court Blocks Ohio GOPers From Killing A Clean Air Law Opposed By Polluter [60]

"A Franklin County judge overturned Ohio lawmakers’ effort to eliminate a clean air enforcement rule that’s used against polluters. She said the legislation unconstitutionally spanned multiple subjects."

Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [61]
Source: Signal Ohio [62], 10/23/2026
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Maryland CAFO Fund Wastes Taxpayer Dollars As Pollution Persists: Report [63]

"Maryland is spending millions in taxpayer dollars on technology designed to protect people and water from animal manure pollution at large-scale livestock farms — but has wasted money on fruitless projects and shown little evidence that the investments are working, according to a new report."

Agriculture [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Source: The New Lede [64], 10/23/2026
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New Washington Cooling Law Protects Farm Workers - If They Know About It [65]

"Renters in Washington State now have expanded rights to air conditioning under a state law that recently went into effect. Awareness of the law, however, has yet to reach the farmworker community, which could benefit from the new protections."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [42]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [24]
Public [15]
Northwest (OR WA) [66]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [67], 10/23/2026
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Map Shows US Drinking Water Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ [68]

"Federal monitoring data has revealed where two extensively studied PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” have been found in drinking water across the U.S."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Newsweek [69], 10/23/2026
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A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels [70]

"Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Science [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Canada [43]
Source: WIRED [71], 10/23/2026
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The Hidden History Of How Big Oil Invented The American Dream [72]

"From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows how they did it."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [30]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Grist [73], 10/23/2026
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