A four-part series examining a wastewater infrastructure crisis and the people searching for solutions. A joint project of the Montgomery Advertiser and the new website, Southerly.
NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA —The full extent of Hurricane Florence's environmental damage isn't yet known in North Carolina, where waste from factory farms, coal ash, and other pollutants are contaminating floodwaters still on the rise after the largest East Coast deluge north of Florida in history.
Although the effort to rebuild Puerto Rico has made progress, the island is still confronting questions of status, economics, and emigration that Hurricane Maria helped expose.
Water from the Nile, which birthed one of the world's first civilizations, is no longer reaching Egypt's rice farmers, leaving millions at risk of impoverishment.
A settlement involving the safety of workers at the Hanford nuclear site is what Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson called a "historic victory" Wednesday.
Traditional communities in Brazil's savannah, lacking land deeds, have been displaced by large-scale soy growers, and forced to resettle in impoverished cities like Campos Lindos.
Thousands of North Carolina residents are still displaced after Hurricane Florence, but research suggests evacuees who stay with family or friends are less likely to develop PTSD symptoms.
Hurricane Maria ruined the only dialysis center on the tiny island and thrice-weekly trips to the mainland have taken a toll on frail patients with five deaths in the past year.
Jamez Staples has big dreams of bringing clean energy — and its economic benefits — to his underserved and racially diverse Minneapolis neighborhood.
As California pushes to reach 100% renewable energy, the state is helping to fund a push by the solar company to install solar panels on affordable housing developments.
Environmentalists are hoping that a trial, due to begin October 29, will explain to the public how the government has known for decades about the dangers of fossil fuels but failed to act on this knowledge.
The new government of East Nusa Tenggara, a mineral-rich province in eastern Indonesia, has pledged to reform its mining sector as officials and environmentalists cite the lack of benefits from the extractive industry.
Climate change has increased the vulnerability of the state’s low-lying eastern plain, expanding the size and water mass of hurricanes by as much as fifty per cent, with ocean levels creeping up.
Florence has been blamed for 32 deaths: 25 in North Carolina, 6 in South Carolina and one in Virginia. Among the dead are two infants and a 1-year-old, all in North Carolina.
Two and a half years after the murder of environmental activist Berta Caceres, eight suspects will stand trial in Honduras. The joint plaintiffs have criticized the prosecution for deliberately withholding evidence.
