Climate & Environment

277 posts

Fuel squeeze deepens blackouts and closures across Cuba

Tighter U.S. oil restrictions have led to longer blackouts, transportation shutdowns, and halted education as Cuba already faces an energy crisis

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6 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Red flags in the air: Louisiana communities take on pollution

Federal and state laws are making it more challenging for communities to protect themselves against life-threatening toxins

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7 Min
By: Yasmin Garaad

This Brooklyn neighborhood is building a community-led climate future and fighting to keep it

Sunset Park has carried a heavy pollution burden for its predominantly working-class Asian and Latino residents. Now the neighborhood is emerging as a model for environmental justice

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10 Min
By: Gaea Cabico

Redlining links Black women and higher rates of breast cancer

Recent research shows that living in redlined neighborhoods not only increases the risk of breast cancer for Black women, but also shapes their survival rates and broader health outcomes

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9 Min
By: Syris Valentine

Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish may proceed, judge rules

Community organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in majority Black areas, dubbed “Cancer Alley”

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Indigenous communities are hard at work restoring a relative: the buffalo

Back from the brink of extinction, buffalo are at the center of an ecological revolution led by Indigenous leaders

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Flooding mitigation efforts in Houston waver as police budgets increase

Some Houston residents are outraged by decisions that appear to underfund infrastructure and other services in the flooding-prone city while boosting police budgets

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5 Min
By: Uyiosa Elegon

Louisiana is ground zero for an emerging horror: geological landfills

Carbon capture and sequestration, the technology of capturing carbon and storing it underground forever, is unproven and dangerous. Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states may soon house almost 40% of the country’s sequestered carbon dioxide

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9 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Israel’s national water company sets its sights on Argentina

Known for water apartheid in Palestine, Mekorot is growing its global footprint across the U.S. and Latin America—including in Argentina, where the company aims to privatize water

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10 Min
By: Ignacio Conese

The Superfund program promises to clean up polluted lands. Does it?

Over 400,000 Indigenous peoples live within three miles of a heavily contaminated site, including 19 superfund sites on tribal lands

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12 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Important climate stories you may have overlooked this year

Trump’s dismantling of bedrock environmental protections is just one facet of the administration’s wide-ranging attacks on the planet

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Nisolo promised ethical fashion before it went broke. Its former Peruvian factory workers are still waiting to be paid.

The handmade leather shoe brand was a darling of ethical fashion. Then it all came crashing down, and workers were left without severance payments

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10 Min
By: Amal Ahmed

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