A Beautiful River in the Middle of a Hellscape: The High Stakes of Climate Change, Oil, and Water in the Permian Basin
Executive Overview On an unseasonably warm May afternoon in southern New Mexico, Charlie Barrett parked his pickup truck…
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The Liquid Hellscape: How the Permian Basin’s Oil Boom is Drowning the Pecos River in Toxicity and Aridification
Originally reported by Capital & Main Executive Overview In the sun-baked expanses of southern New Mexico, a profound…
Shadows on the Pecos: How the Permian Basin’s Booming Oil Economy is Choking New Mexico’s Lifeline
Executive Overview In the sun-baked expanses of southern New Mexico, a profound and tragic environmental irony plays out…
Voices from the Canopy: Reconciling Indigenous Rights and Conservation in the Congo Basin
Executive Overview Deep within the lush, hyper-diverse forests of the Congo Basin in the eastern Democratic Republic of…
Beneath the Canopy of Discontent: What Conservation Rumors Reveal About Climate Projects in the Congo Basin
Executive Overview Deep within the Tshopo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lush, vital expanse…
The Deep Abyss on Trial: Why the Gulf of Mexico’s Orca Basin Must Not Become a Carbon Dump
By Craig R. McClain Deep-Sea Biologist and Marine Ecosystem Researcher Executive Overview It is 3 a.m. aboard a…
Guardians of the Congo Basin: Why the Future of Global Climate Action Depends on the Indigenous Voices of Lokolama
By Valentin Engobo Mufia Representative of the Tshwa Indigenous People of Lokolama, Democratic Republic of the Congo Executive…
Thirst in the Desert: The Impending Collapse of the Colorado River Basin
Executive Overview The American Southwest stands at a precipice of unprecedented socio-ecological vulnerability. For over a century, the…
Guardians of the Congo Basin: Why the Future of Global Climate Action Depends on the Indigenous Voices of Lokolama
By Valentin Engobo Mufia Representative of the Tshwa Indigenous People of Lokolama, Democratic Republic of the Congo Executive…
