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Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 20, 2026 ∙ 8 min
‘Storm Fear’ Inspires Bold Infrastructure Renewal
In April and May 2024, relentless rain turned Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul into a vast inland floodplain, pushing families onto rooftops and into crowded shelters as roads, bridges, and power lines failed around them. The floods killed 181 people, displaced 775,000, and affected 2.4 million residents.
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Feb 18, 2026 ∙ 7 min
Road Salt: Kind to Drivers but Not the Planet
Road salt has long been treated as an unavoidable cost of winter safety, but the tax it quietly imposes on ecosystems and infrastructure is far larger than its price per ton suggests.
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Dec 18, 2025 ∙ 7 min
A Poor Nation—and Its Great Apes—Sits on Valuable Peatlands
Today, there are two kinds of existential cry resounding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a central African nation synonymous with ecological and mineral riches.
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Dhanada K. Mishra
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