Healing the Highlands: Inside Ethiopia’s Historic, High-Stakes Campaign to Reverse Land Degradation
Executive Overview For generations, the semi-mountainous Gurage Zone in central Ethiopia has borne the raw scars of a…
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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…
The Lithium Paradox: Inside the High-Stakes Extraction Crisis on the Atacama Plateau
Executive Overview High atop the Andean plateau, where the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile converge, sits one…
Ethiopia’s 50-Billlion-Tree Gamble: A High-Stakes Race to Rebuild Lands, Livelihoods, and Resilience
Executive Overview High on the steep hillsides of central Ethiopia’s Gurage Zone, 32-year-old farmer Niku Argane surveys a…
Battle for the Menai: The High-Stakes Clash Between Digital Infrastructure and Welsh Heritage
Executive Overview In the picturesque shadow of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, a fierce battle line has been drawn…
Parched Earth, High Stakes: Paraguay Submits Critical Data to UNESCO as the Chaco Biosphere Reserve Faces an Ecological Reckoning
Executive Overview Paraguay has submitted updated management plans and territorial zoning data to the United Nations Educational, Scientific…
The High-Stakes Battle Over EU Ocean Funding: Are Industrial Subsidies Driving European Fisheries to the Brink?
Executive Overview As the member states of the European Union prepare to finalize their allocations for the upcoming…
Security, Survival, and Fossil Fuel Stalemates: Inside the High-Stakes Pre-COP31 Summit in Fiji
Executive Overview As geopolitical fault lines fracture international cooperation, the global community stands at a precarious juncture regarding…
The Battle for India’s Skies: Elon Musk, Mukesh Ambani, and the High-Stakes War for Satellite Internet
Executive Overview A high-stakes corporate and geopolitical collision is unfolding at the intersection of outer space and South…
High-Stakes Energy Transition in Rural Utah: Carbon County Faces a Boom of Nuclear and Gas-Powered Data Centers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom…
