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🧵 After Hurricane Helene made landfall in Georgia in 2024, a BioLab chemical warehouse in Conyers caught on fire, sending toxic smoke through neighboring towns.
Teresa Ervin-Springs was living nine miles away at the time of the explosion.
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Teresa Ervin-Springs was living nine miles away at the time of the explosion.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 After Hurricane Helene made landfall in Georgia in 2024, a BioLab chemical warehouse in Conyers caught on fire, sending toxic smoke through neighboring towns.
Teresa Ervin-Springs was living nine miles away at the time of the explosion.
themargin.us/features/bre...
Teresa Ervin-Springs was living nine miles away at the time of the explosion.
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Mindy Ramaker, head of creative at Counterstream Media, shares why you should support The Margin and help bring environmental justice journalism to life.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mindy Ramaker, head of creative at Counterstream Media, shares why you should support The Margin and help bring environmental justice journalism to life.
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The Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda has targeted immigrant communities across the United States. Masked ICE agents raid neighborhoods and workplaces daily.
Now, ICE is exploring the use of warehouses near airports to “increase efficiency” in deportations, NBC News reports.
Now, ICE is exploring the use of warehouses near airports to “increase efficiency” in deportations, NBC News reports.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda has targeted immigrant communities across the United States. Masked ICE agents raid neighborhoods and workplaces daily.
Now, ICE is exploring the use of warehouses near airports to “increase efficiency” in deportations, NBC News reports.
Now, ICE is exploring the use of warehouses near airports to “increase efficiency” in deportations, NBC News reports.
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For Alaska Native peoples, "climate impacts are making it more difficult to remain on their traditional homelands." Jess Zhang for @themarginus.bsky.social
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Mourning Land that Leaves - The Margin
Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
For Alaska Native peoples, "climate impacts are making it more difficult to remain on their traditional homelands." Jess Zhang for @themarginus.bsky.social
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🧵 THREAD: We’re halfway through our Fall Issue 🍂
So far, our stories have revealed three major risks facing frontline communities in Arizona, Washington, and Alaska that the federal government has largely let slide. Keep scrolling for each one 👇
So far, our stories have revealed three major risks facing frontline communities in Arizona, Washington, and Alaska that the federal government has largely let slide. Keep scrolling for each one 👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 THREAD: We’re halfway through our Fall Issue 🍂
So far, our stories have revealed three major risks facing frontline communities in Arizona, Washington, and Alaska that the federal government has largely let slide. Keep scrolling for each one 👇
So far, our stories have revealed three major risks facing frontline communities in Arizona, Washington, and Alaska that the federal government has largely let slide. Keep scrolling for each one 👇
When a tip comes in about poisoned air or another environmental disaster threatening a community, we can't wait. We start reporting immediately—getting journalists on the ground, fact-checkers verifying, data teams analyzing.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When a tip comes in about poisoned air or another environmental disaster threatening a community, we can't wait. We start reporting immediately—getting journalists on the ground, fact-checkers verifying, data teams analyzing.
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🧵 THREAD: In colonias along the Southern border, residents are doing their best to survive.
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
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The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🧵 THREAD: In colonias along the Southern border, residents are doing their best to survive.
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
🧵 THREAD: In colonias along the Southern border, residents are doing their best to survive.
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🧵 THREAD: In colonias along the Southern border, residents are doing their best to survive.
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
The areas they live in face some of the most severe climate risks in the entire state, from heatwave risk to contaminated water to lack of healthcare access.
themargin.us/features/des...
You’ve seen the difference our coverage makes—holding power to account, uncovering untold stories, and keeping you informed. Now, we need you with us to keep it going.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You’ve seen the difference our coverage makes—holding power to account, uncovering untold stories, and keeping you informed. Now, we need you with us to keep it going.
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Colonias in Southern Arizona are facing heat, water shortages and funding cuts. Here’s what residents say needs to change.
In collaboration with The Margin
https://azluminaria.org/2025/10/31/southern-arizona-colonias-climate-water-crisis/
In collaboration with The Margin
https://azluminaria.org/2025/10/31/southern-arizona-colonias-climate-water-crisis/
Deserted at the border - AZ Luminaria
Farmworker and mining colonias in Southern Arizona face deadly heat, water shortages, and federal funding cuts.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Colonias in Southern Arizona are facing heat, water shortages and funding cuts. Here’s what residents say needs to change.
In collaboration with The Margin
https://azluminaria.org/2025/10/31/southern-arizona-colonias-climate-water-crisis/
In collaboration with The Margin
https://azluminaria.org/2025/10/31/southern-arizona-colonias-climate-water-crisis/
In southern AZ, entire farmworker and miner communities are being quietly left behind—facing brutal heat, shrinking water supplies, and vanishing federal support.
We shine a light on the hidden costs of America’s policy failures.
Read the full story:
We shine a light on the hidden costs of America’s policy failures.
Read the full story:
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The federal government is quietly abandoning Arizona farmworker and miner communities, stripping funding from hundreds of thousands of residents facing deadly heat and dwindling water
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In southern AZ, entire farmworker and miner communities are being quietly left behind—facing brutal heat, shrinking water supplies, and vanishing federal support.
We shine a light on the hidden costs of America’s policy failures.
Read the full story:
We shine a light on the hidden costs of America’s policy failures.
Read the full story:
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New photos out in AZ Luminaria and The Margin.
🧵 THREAD: When Alfonso Figueroa returns home to Winchester Heights, AZ, and looks around, he sees his community in disrepair: “My place back in Oaxaca seemed better than here. I thought this was an abandoned town.”
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October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New photos out in AZ Luminaria and The Margin.
🧵 THREAD: When Alfonso Figueroa returns home to Winchester Heights, AZ, and looks around, he sees his community in disrepair: “My place back in Oaxaca seemed better than here. I thought this was an abandoned town.”
themargin.us/features/deserted-at-the-border
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October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🧵 THREAD: When Alfonso Figueroa returns home to Winchester Heights, AZ, and looks around, he sees his community in disrepair: “My place back in Oaxaca seemed better than here. I thought this was an abandoned town.”
themargin.us/features/deserted-at-the-border
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🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...
🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...
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Even as the land erodes, Alaska Native communities hold fast to identity and hope.
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
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Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
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Mourning Land that Leaves - The Margin
Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish
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October 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Even as the land erodes, Alaska Native communities hold fast to identity and hope.
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
Our latest by @ricomoore.bsky.social
Licensed to Contaminate: from city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention at the Northwest Immigration Processing Center in Tacoma, WA
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Licensed to Contaminate: from city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention at the Northwest Immigration Processing Center in Tacoma, WA
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Licensed to Contaminate - The Margin
From city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention
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October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Our latest by @ricomoore.bsky.social
Licensed to Contaminate: from city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention at the Northwest Immigration Processing Center in Tacoma, WA
themargin.us/features/lic...
Licensed to Contaminate: from city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention at the Northwest Immigration Processing Center in Tacoma, WA
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🚨 BREAKING: For more than 20 years, city, state, and federal agencies have enabled migrants in Tacoma, Washington’s Northwest Detention Center to be confined on land saturated with petroleum, metals, and chemical waste, The Margin has found.
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 BREAKING: For more than 20 years, city, state, and federal agencies have enabled migrants in Tacoma, Washington’s Northwest Detention Center to be confined on land saturated with petroleum, metals, and chemical waste, The Margin has found.
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📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish, @themarginus.bsky.social reports:
Mourning Land that Leaves - The Margin
Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish
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October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📚 What the Floodlight team is reading: Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish, @themarginus.bsky.social reports:
🧵 THREAD: Melting permafrost, erosion, and flooding are drastically changing the landscape of Alaska, contributing to a housing crisis in Native Alaskan towns and villages across the state.
The U.S. government does not recognize these climate risks as disasters. The data tells a different story.
The U.S. government does not recognize these climate risks as disasters. The data tells a different story.
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🧵 THREAD: Melting permafrost, erosion, and flooding are drastically changing the landscape of Alaska, contributing to a housing crisis in Native Alaskan towns and villages across the state.
The U.S. government does not recognize these climate risks as disasters. The data tells a different story.
The U.S. government does not recognize these climate risks as disasters. The data tells a different story.
Even as the land erodes, Alaska Native communities hold fast to identity and hope.
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
Mourning Land that Leaves - The Margin
Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish
themargin.us
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Even as the land erodes, Alaska Native communities hold fast to identity and hope.
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
Explore resilience in the face of loss — read "Mourning Land That Leaves" from The Margin.
👉 themargin.us/features/mourning-land-that-leaves
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🧵 THREAD: Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, villages featured in our upcoming investigation, experienced record flooding from Typhoon Halong. Homes floated off foundations with families still inside.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🧵 THREAD: Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, villages featured in our upcoming investigation, experienced record flooding from Typhoon Halong. Homes floated off foundations with families still inside.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
🧵 THREAD: Climate change is making it more difficult for Alaska Natives to remain on their traditional homelands. The Margin spoke with more than 12 people who had relocated from Native villages to Alaska's major cities.
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🧵 THREAD: Climate change is making it more difficult for Alaska Natives to remain on their traditional homelands. The Margin spoke with more than 12 people who had relocated from Native villages to Alaska's major cities.
🧵 THREAD: Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, villages featured in our upcoming investigation, experienced record flooding from Typhoon Halong. Homes floated off foundations with families still inside.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🧵 THREAD: Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, villages featured in our upcoming investigation, experienced record flooding from Typhoon Halong. Homes floated off foundations with families still inside.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
At least 51 people have been rescued to date. Three remain missing.
🧵Thread: For the 300,000 people living in refinery-adjacent communities, the recent explosion at the Chevron Oil Refinery in El Segundo was a visceral reminder of their daily reality.
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧵Thread: For the 300,000 people living in refinery-adjacent communities, the recent explosion at the Chevron Oil Refinery in El Segundo was a visceral reminder of their daily reality.