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US judge declines to block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk's SpaceX

A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas, while environmental groups vowed to continue their legal challenge. US district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr declined the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the parcel exchange, saying they failed to prove it would worsen ecological risks to a Gulf coast region already transformed by billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket operations. In June, the US Fish and Wildlife Service approved moving forward with the deal with SpaceX, which would surrender 683 acres the company owns in exchange for the federal land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The 103,000-acre refuge spans four counties along the Texas border and is home to animal habitats and historical landmarks. Maps show the land SpaceX would acquire would be closer to the company’s launchpad near the US-Mexico border. The swap amounts to a gift of public lands to SpaceX, “clearing the way for bulldozers to tear into this wildlife refuge as soon as next week and turn a public treasure into a private payday”, said Laiken Jordahl, a spokesperson with the Center...

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Private capital lands in Sydney to support Australia's transition

Mirova has established a dedicated private assets team in Sydney, as part of its expansion into energy transition infrastructure investments across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The sustainable investment affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers has already invested more than $700 million across Australia and New Zealand, including investments in renewable energy company TagEnergy, electric vehicle charging specialist JET Charge and renewables firm Yanara Australia. The new team will operate within Natixis Investment Managers Australia and support Mirova’s Energy Transition Infrastructure platform, which invests in infrastructure contributing to the transition towards a lower-carbon energy system. Mirova sees Australia had become an increasingly important market for its energy transition investments, supported by the country’s renewable energy resources, growing infrastructure pipeline and demand for private capital. The Sydney-based team will initially comprise three investment professionals: an investment director, investment manager and investment analyst. It will focus on identifying, evaluating and supporting potential investments while developing relationships with Australian investors, renewable energy developers and other industry stakeholders. Kim Nguyen has been appointed Investment Director to lead the team. Nguyen has more than 20 years of experience across infrastructure, energy and private markets. Most recently, Nguyen served as Executive Director, Investments at the NSW Government’s...

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New Global Witness figures: At least 124 land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2025

Just two South American countries – Colombia and Brazil – accounted for 52% of the 2025 killings In Asia, defenders are facing a rising tide of criminalisation and intimidation Globally, more than three quarters of those killed were small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples or Afro-descendant peoples. Indigenous Peoples accounted for 44 of the killings documented in 2025. Land disputes triggered more than half of the killings documented in 2025 At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2025, bringing the total documented killings and disappearances since 2012 to 2,375, reveals a new report by Global Witness published on 16 September 2026 Of all killings documented in 2025, 85% took place in Latin America, which has ranked as the world’s deadliest region for environmental defenders every year since Global Witness began publishing its annual report in 2012. Globally, more than three-quarters of those killed were small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples or Afro-descendant Peoples. Killings took place across Latin America, Asia and Africa. Colombia, for the fourth consecutive year, was the world’s deadliest documented country for defenders, with 39 killings, nearly half of whom were Indigenous. The second deadliest was Brazil, where 26 defenders were killed in 2025, more than double the...

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The EPA's 2022 inventory puts total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at 6,343.2 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent, and notes that the country's forests, croplands,

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent full accounting, the 2022 Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, puts total national emissions at 6,343.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The same inventory notes that forests, croplands, grasslands, wetlands, and settlements together absorbed enough carbon to offset roughly 13 percent of that gross number, leaving the land sector as a net sink rather than another smokestack on the ledger. That single line, buried in a technical appendix, is one of the more consequential facts in American climate accounting. It is also a fact the country may soon stop measuring. The EPA has proposed permanently removing reporting obligations for most categories of industrial facilities under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, the data pipeline that has fed the national inventory. In the months since, the agency has extended reporting deadlines, by which point the rule stripping the requirement may already be final. What the 2022 inventory captured, in other words, is a snapshot of something the federal government is in the process of no longer looking at. What the 6,343.2 million metric ton figure actually contains The gross number sums carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and a set of fluorinated gases,...

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20 physicians land fellowships to deepen their advocacy skills - American Medical Association | AMA

The fourth cohort of the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship features 20 physicians from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, all devoted to gaining skills in physician-led advocacy to advance optimal health for all people and communities. Your Powerful Ally Through AMA advocacy and policymaking, we are addressing the issues important to you—together—and shaping what’s next for physicians. The Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship, launched in 2021, is preparing the next generation of physician advocacy leaders to generate and exchange solutions and drive meaningful policy changes. This initiative—which counts twice as many fellows in the 2026–2027 cohort as in prior years—is a collaboration between the AMA and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. The first-of-its-kind postdoctoral fellowship enhances physicians’ advocacy leadership skills to improve health outcomes in the areas they serve or may serve. Using a unique learning framework, the fellowship provides a mentoring and training platform that equips participants with the foundational skills, tools, and knowledge to engage in health advocacy. This involves exploring several critical topic areas, including: Upstream, action-based models of advocacy that address social drivers of health. Cultural and historical analysis of policies and their impact on health outcomes. Sector...

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Land for Sale in Cassis: A Rare Opportunity to Build near Calanques

Rare building land for sale in Cassis from €1.19M. Create a private villa beside the Calanques National Park, with large plots, permits and panoramic views.

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Half of world's smallholder farmers, using just 12% of arable land, could meet additional food needs

The world doesn’t need to choose between feeding a growing population and restoring the planet’s soils. According to a new book, it could do both — using just 12 per cent of the world’s arable land. The answer, argues development expert Hugh Locke, lies with a group of farmers rarely credited with that kind of power: The world’s smallholders. In Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation, Locke notes that this overlooked segment of agriculture may hold the key to meeting one of the biggest challenges of the next quarter-century: Feeding roughly 1.5 billion more people by 2050, with that growth concentrated in developing countries, without pushing the planet’s soils, water and biodiversity further into decline. Locke lays out a case in the book that helping just half of the world’s smallholders — about 240 million farming families — transition to regenerative agriculture and agroforestry could generate all the additional food required by population growth through mid-century, while improving the land those farms sit on rather than depleting it. There are roughly 475 million smallholder farms across the Global South, most of them work on plots smaller than two hectares (about 5 acres). Collectively, they already produce about...

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Atlanta's restored 1926 Sears building, now a food hall and rooftop hotspot.