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Technical Assessment of Woodside’s Browse Pygmy Blue Whale Management Plan

To secure their approvals, Woodside had to develop a plan for how they would manage the significant risks to threatened green turtles if the project proceeds. We’ve had two independent scientists provide a technical assessment of Woodside’s management plan for whales and turtles and their findings are gobsmacking.

Woodside’s Browse gas project could make Scott Reef’s unique green turtles extinct.

Woodside’s Browse gas project could delay or prevent the population recovery of the endangered pygmy blue whales that rely on Scott Reef, heightening their extinction risk.

Technical Assessment of Woodside’s Browse Turtle Management Plan

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Mining the Metal of the Future

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Go behind the scenes with senior editor Michael Kodas, ICN reporter Wyatt Myskow and Columbia Journalism Investigations reporter Johanna Hansel as they discuss the complicated push to build up lithium mining in the United States.

Today, just one lithium mine operates in the U.S. By 2030, at least six new projects are expected on American soil, with 13 more close behind, mostly in the dry Southwest.

Mining the Metal of the Future

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War Harms the Environment. Can a Peace Treaty Repair the Damage?

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Experts at a U.N. institute see opportunities for ecological improvement in the peace talks between Kurdish fighters and Turkey.

On a sweltering July day, 30 Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters stripped the rifles from their backs and tossed them into a blazing fire.

War Harms the Environment. Can a Peace Treaty Repair the Damage?

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Flooding in Chicago Is Getting Worse. Here’s Why.

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Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

In a little-noticed memo early last year, Illinois scientists made a dire prediction.

Flooding in Chicago Is Getting Worse. Here’s Why.

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