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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [1]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

Environmental Health [2]
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People & Population [5]
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National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [9], 12/23/2024
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"Who Are Climate Migrants And What Can The World Do For Them?" [10]

"With 2024 set to become the hottest year on record, growing climate extremes mean some places around the world will become uninhabitable and that could lead to mass migration."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [13]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [14], 12/20/2024
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Montana Supreme Court Upholds Right To ‘Stable Climate’ For Youngsters [15]

"The Montana supreme court upheld a landmark trial court decision last August in favor of 16 young people who said their health and futures were being jeopardized by climate change, which the state aggravates through its permitting of energy projects."

Activism [16]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Justice [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: Guardian [19], 12/19/2024
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UN Talks Fail To Agree On Dealing With Rising Risk Of Global Drought [20]

"Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree early Saturday on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [22]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Natural Resources [23]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [7]
International [13]
Africa [25]
Source: AP [26], 12/17/2024
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"Gas Could Mean Billions for Indigenous People in Canada. Some Fear a Cost." [27]

"New export terminals along the rugged Pacific coastline have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Justice [3]
Infrastructure [28]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [29]
Transportation [30]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [7]
Northwest (OR WA) [31]
Canada [32]
Source: NYTimes [33], 12/16/2024
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"Celebrities And Coastal Residents Flee From Wind-Driven Wildfire In Malibu" [34]

"Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders and warnings Tuesday as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near celebrities’ seaside mansions, horse farms and Pepperdine University, where students watched as flames raced down hillsides and the sky turned deep red."

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People & Population [5]
Public [7]
California [36]
Source: AP [37], 12/11/2024
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"Indigenous Mayans Want Their Sacred Cenotes To Have Personhood Status" [38]

"A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms from within”). Deep underground, the tree’s long roots search for the water that makes this land special: a sinkhole lake, known as a cenote."

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Biodiversity [22]
Natural Resources [23]
People & Population [5]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [6]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [7]
Mexico [39]
Source: AP [40], 12/10/2024
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Biden Names National Monument At Notorious Native American Boarding School [41]

"President Biden on Monday formally designated the former site of a notorious boarding school for Native American children as a national monument, issuing a formal apology for the practice of forcibly removing children to such schools."

Environmental Justice [3]
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Natural Resources [23]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Source: The Hill [43], 12/10/2024
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Trump’s Public Health Agency Picks, Looking Peaked? [44]

Public health is an environmental story (think links between infectious disease and climate change, for example). So Trump administration nominees to head leading U.S. public health agencies — including vaccine skeptics, COVID-19 contrarians and physicians with little public health experience — are a story for environmental journalists to watch closely. The latest EJ TransitionWatch helps with a rundown of five top picks. Plus, the latest health headlines [45] from EJ Today.

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