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Lula Wins Historic Fourth Term As Brazilian President, Defeats Bolsonaro [9]

"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power."

Biodiversity [10]
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South America [18]
Source: Guardian [19], 10/26/2026
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West Virginia Attorney General Subpoenas Environmental Groups [20]

"West Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights."

Activism [21]
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Journalism & Media [22]
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National (U.S.) [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: The Hill [25], 10/26/2026
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Locations of N. Carolina Poultry CAFOs Have Been a Secret — Until Now [26]

"A few days before Christmas in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received a complaint through its National Response Center: “There has been a horrible smell in the air for almost a week,” the caller said, according to state records. “It’s so bad it’s making people throw up.”"

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Source: Inside Climate News [32], 10/26/2026
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Europe’s Intense Summer Heat May Have Led To 50K Deaths, Report Says [33]

"About 50,000 more people died in European cities between June and August than would have if temperatures had not been abnormally hot, researchers estimate."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [28]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Europe [36]
Source: Washington Post [37], 10/26/2026
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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass [38]

"The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether."

Air [39]
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National (U.S.) [23]
Source: New York Times [41], 10/26/2026
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Nearly All of World’s Shallow Coral Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered [42]

"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]
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Science [43]
Water & Oceans [44]
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National (U.S.) [23]
International [45]
Source: New York Times [46], 10/26/2026
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New Famine Risk Haunts War-Torn Sudan With El Niño-Driven Drought [47]

"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 [27]
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Food [48]
Military [49]
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Water & Oceans [44]
Public [17]
Africa [50]
Middle East [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 10/26/2026
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PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated: New Study [53]

"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 [40]
Consumer [54]
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Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 10/26/2026
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Alabama’s New Data Center Rules Still Leave Customers in the Dark: Critics [56]

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

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [57]
Energy & Fuel [58]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 10/26/2026
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Landmark Youth Climate Trial Against Canadian Government Is About to Begin [60]

"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 [21]
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People & Population [35]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
Canada [61]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 10/26/2026
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Oil and Tech Money Back Measure to Limit California Environmental Law [63]

"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 [58]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Technology [64]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [65]
Source: Capital & Main [66], 10/23/2026
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W. Va. Investigates Green Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Climate Change Advocacy [67]

"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 [21]
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Conflict/Corruption [68]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: AP [70], 10/23/2026
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Suspends Permit For Major Amazon Gold Mine [71]

"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 [40]
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Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [69]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [44]
Public [17]
South America [18]
Source: AP [72], 10/23/2026
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Pakistan Workers Swelter In Extreme Heat Despite Brands' Safety Pledges [73]

"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]
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Environmental Justice [12]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Asia [74]
Source: AP [75], 10/23/2026
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Court Blocks Ohio GOPers From Killing A Clean Air Law Opposed By Polluter [76]

"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 [28]
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Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [77]
Source: Signal Ohio [78], 10/23/2026
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