A decades-long fight ramps up in Grassy Narrows as mercury poisoning threatens its water, people and way of life.


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A decades-long fight ramps up in Grassy Narrows as mercury poisoning threatens its water, people and way of life.

As historic drought forces the US to mull Colorado River water cuts, Indigenous communities are demanding to be heard.

Al Jazeera travels to key sites and communities in the Colorado River Basin as the region grapples with record drought.

Al Jazeera travels to Indigenous communities in western US that are asserting their water rights amid historic drought.

One of the largest rivers in the US is in crisis. Here’s all you need to know about the key western waterway.

Experts say Canada must act quickly as climate change threatens the slender Chignecto Isthmus on country’s east coast.

From pipelines on Indigenous lands to landfills near Black communities, Canada’s long history of environmental racism.
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Experts say strong leadership and quick, decisive action in Atlantic Canada helped region stem spread of the virus.
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Canada’s system will extend to people whose death is not ‘reasonably foreseeable’, prompting fears among some advocates.
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After a year of sweeping defeats, ISIL has been pushed out of key territory, returning to its ‘covert insurgent roots’.
