Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out
"Hampered by fear and deprived of resources, migrant farmworkers are unlikely to come forward and seek restitution."
Source: EHN, 10/19/2021
People & Population
Indigenous Activists Demonstrate on Climate In Front of White House
"Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal elder from White Eagle, Okla., and environmental ambassador for the Ponca Nation, marched in the front of a crowd of hundreds headed toward the White House on Monday and held up her fist."
Source: Washington Post, 10/12/2021
"Mass Floods Hit China’s Coal Hub, Threatening Power Supplies"
"China’s largest coal-producing region was hit by severe flooding, threatening the country’s already strained power supply and displacing more than 120,000 people as residents called for help from other regions."
Source: Washington Post, 10/12/2021
How ‘The Swamp Peddlers’ Scammed Their Way to Florida’s Eco-Destruction
How did Florida go from an uncrowded home of pine forests, wetlands and ranches to today’s sprawling subdivisions spawning environmental disaster? A new volume gains praise from BookShelf reviewer Nano Riley for its well-researched look at the unscrupulous developers who in a matter of decades carved the state’s ecosystems into lots for sale, trading its pristine beauty for an easy buck.
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Top UN Panel Votes to Recognize Human Right to a Clean Environment
"The United Nations’ top human rights body voted Friday to adopt a resolution recognizing the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/11/2021
Biden To Expand Bears Ears, Other National Monuments, Reversing Trump
"President Biden will restore full protections to three national monuments that had been slashed in size by former president Donald Trump, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah known for their stunning desert landscapes and historical treasures of Native American art and settlements as well as a rich fossil record, according to a statement from the White House on Thursday evening."
Source: Washington Post, 10/08/2021
"UN Weather Agency Says World Ill-Prepared For 'Looming Water Crisis'"
"Most countries are ill-equipped to handle what the United Nations said Tuesday is a 'looming' global water crisis caused by climate change and population growth. Floods, droughts and other water-related disasters are on the rise due to global warming, the World Meteorological Organization said in a new report published Tuesday."
Source: Washington Post, 10/06/2021
Month After Ida's Landfall, Louisianians Decry 'Third World' Conditions
"Reuters traveled the bayous of hard-hit Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes in recent days, speaking with more than 40 residents. All said they felt abandoned by state and federal officials. A few said they had not received any type of support from any level of government."
Source: Reuters, 10/05/2021
Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade
It sometimes feels like journalists lurch from one catastrophe (or hurricane, flood, wildfire, heat wave) to the next. But that can mean missing the bigger story: Disasters, increasingly linked to climate extremes, are often interlocking events, in which one system failure causes the next and the next. The latest Backgrounder explores three case studies, and how news media can focus attention on steps toward resilience.
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For Bangladesh Climate Migrants, Pandemic Job Cuts Fuel 'Multiple Crises'
"Bangladesh is one of the world's largest exporters of labour, but thousands have been left without work as the pandemic slows economies around the world".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/04/2021
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