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Climate Change Is Disproportionately Affecting Black & Brown Communities in Texas

Maria Esquinca — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:17:55 +0000

In August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas. It left behind a wreckage that cost the city $125 billion in damages and killed more than 80 people. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called it a “historic devastation.” Scientists have concluded that climate change made Harvey stronger. “Climate change contributed to certain aspects of Harvey,” said

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Raúl Hernández Is Second Mexican Environmentalist Found Dead in the Last Week

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:28:01 +0000

Raúl Hernández Romero, 44-year-old environmentalist, tour guide and manager at a monarch butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán, Mexico was found dead on Saturday, according to local reports. This tragic update follows last Wednesday’s news of Homero Gómez González’s death. Hernández is now the second casualty in the local community of conservationists. Although his cause of death

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Mexican Environmentalist Homero Gómez González Found Dead After Weeks Missing

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:31:08 +0000

Homero Gómez González went missing on January 13. On Wednesday, the fear of many was confirmed. Gómez’s body was found in a well near the Rosario monarch butterfly sanctuary where he worked, in Michocán, Mexico. He was 50 years old. The cause of death is not official, according to local reports, but his body reportedly

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Activists Fear Species Exclusive to Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands at Risk After 600-Gallon Oil Spill

Raquel Reichard — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:57:29 +0000

About 600 gallons of oil spilled in the waters off the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador after a cargo vessel tipped over early Sunday. Emergency teams are currently working to contain the spill on San Cristobal Island, an eastern island of the Galápagos. According to the Ecuadorian Coast Guard, the spill occurred after a crane loading

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7 Men Sentenced to Prison for Murder of Honduran Environmental Activist Berta Cáceres

Raquel Reichard — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:16:12 +0000

On Monday, the seven men who were found guilty of killing Honduran environmental justice activist Berta Cáceres were sentenced to 30 to 50 years behind bars. Cáceres, who was fighting against the construction of a hydroelectric dam on Lenca Indigenous land when she was attacked, was fatally shot at her home on March 2, 2016.

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Students Storm Harvard-Yale Game Field Demanding Schools to Cancel Puerto Rico Debt

Raquel Reichard — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:34:28 +0000

On Saturday, more than 100 people interrupted the Harvard-Yale rivalry football game halftime show in a demonstration for Puerto Rico and environmental justice. The protesters, which included students and alumni from both Ivy Leagues, demanded the schools to divest from fossil fuels and cancel their Puerto Rico debt holdings. According to USA Today, endowment holdings

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For These Latina Activists, the Struggle for Climate Justice & Racial Justice Must Be Fought Together

Dominique Rémy — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:58:44 +0000

One day, Columba Sainz’s daughter started wheezing. And then it happened again and again. Sainz soon realized there was a pattern: Her daughter would play in Phoenix’s Central Park and then she’d have trouble breathing. It didn’t take long for Sainz to make the connection between the symptoms – which her daughter had never exhibited

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Mexico Paves the First-Ever Road Partially Made of Recycled Plastics

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:09:20 +0000

In Mexico, people are literally paving the way for a better, more sustainable future. This month, the country’s Guanajuato highway, a four-kilometer stretch that connects the Irapuato and Cuerámaro municipalities, became the first in the world to be made with recycled plastic. According to Forbes México, the project used 1.7 tons of plastic, which equates

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Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Spikes to Highest Level in More Than a Decade

Raquel Reichard — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:22:20 +0000

In Brazil, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has spiked to its highest level in 11 years — and environmental justice activists are holding far-right President Jair Bolsonaro partly responsible. According to data released Monday by the Brazilian government, about 9,762 square kilometers — or 3,769 square miles — of rainforest were lost from

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AOC & Bernie Sanders’ First Green New Deal Bill Ties Public Housing With Environmental Justice

Raquel Reichard — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:29:14 +0000

On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) released the first Green New Deal bill and it aims to make public housing more environmentally friendly. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act proposes to transform the 1.2 million public housing units in the country by repairing them and upgrading their health

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