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The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water landscape.

FT. WASHAKIE, Wyo.—Indigenous Peoples’ Day in October was thick with smoke on the Wind River Indian Reservation, with glimmers of fall foliage along its southwestern rivers shrouded in haze beneath a fuzzy horizon. Reservoirs were shriveled by drought, wildfires raged to the northwest, snow was conspicuously absent from mountain peaks and rivers dried to trickles. It wasn’t hard to imagine a future with much less water here.

Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators

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The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

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A new paper suggests that 15 percent of global warming comes from overlooked pollutants.

Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits.

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

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Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

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The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume administering it.

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health challenges in underserved communities across the country.

Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

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A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

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The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.

The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding the night sky and polluting the atmosphere, scientists warn.

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?

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