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This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.The Mississippi River is Drying Out | Extreme EarthIn exchange for his help passing the most far-reaching climate law in U.S. history, Senator Joe Manchin hoped to fast-track a 303-mile natural gas pipeline that’s being built in his home state of West Virginia. Those hopes were dashed yet again on Monday, when a federal appeals court ruled that the pipeline’s threats to water quality have not been adequately accounted for.The…

FTX’s headquarters were located in Nassau, Bahamas, where the former CEO’s parents also purchased a vacation home. Image: Nathan Bai (Shutterstock)Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and founder of FTX, has been having a rough couple ofweeks. With his reputation on the line amidst the collapse of the massive cryptocurrency exchange, a new report indicates that FTX and Bankman-Fried’s own parents purchased a collective 19 properties in the Bahamas over the past two years worth upwards of $121 million. New reporting from…

McFarland and others reportedly defrauded investors $27.4 million in a bid to host Fyre Festival in The Bahamas.Image: Mark Lennihan (AP)Fyre Festival mastermind Billy McFarland is offering an olive branch to the Bahamas, the country where the disaster of a music festival kinda sorta took place in 2017.Studenglass Kompact Demonstration00:19Studenglass 2 DemonstrationYesterday 3:32PMApril 27, 2017 was one of the best days to be on Twitter as the highly-anticipated and vaguely marketed Fyre Festival—a “luxury” music…