Articles by Senior Staff Writer Anita Hofschneider
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![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
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![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night
Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights.
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![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
New report slams carbon offset project in Cambodia for violating Indigenous rights
Human Rights Watch alleges Indigenous peoples were thrown off their land in name of conservation.
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![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
