● Leaders from 10 Mississippi River states are preparing to introduce legislation that protects the waterway from AI infrastructure development.
● Illegal bauxite mining in a protected forest in Ghana threatens the drinking water of an estimated 5 million people, local conservation groups warn.
● Amid ongoing drought, Ethiopia has cut the electricity supply to its cryptocurrency mines by 75 percent.
● Last year, 124 environmental defenders were killed globally; Columbia was the deadliest country, with 39 killings.
