"The U.S. Forgot Lake Charles, And It Could Happen Again Elsewhere" [1]
"Two years after Hurricane Laura, federal aid to help with long-term rebuilding still has not arrived".
"Two years after Hurricane Laura, federal aid to help with long-term rebuilding still has not arrived".
"Sixteen Indigenous Zapotec communities in Mexico have created over 579 water infrastructure projects, including absorption wells, small dams and water pans, to conserve water in the Oaxaca Valley – a region impacted by recurrent droughts."
Biden administration efforts to measure its response to environmental injustice have spurred the launch of a place-based database that scores individual communities on the issue. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox reviews the new government index and suggests that despite weaknesses, it is still useful as part of a suite of similar tools. Learn more about how to effectively use the new database.
"The last surviving member of an isolated Amazonian tribe died this month, Brazil’s national Indigenous agency, FUNAI, has announced."
"ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - When she was a girl, Theresa “Betty” Billiot would open the back door to a view of cattle grazing in pastures, cotton fields and wild prairie dotted with duck ponds. Now she opens the same door and sees nothing but the rising sea."
"Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray. A leader in one of the Indigenous communities by the river’s shores in the Chilean Andes, Curin took it as a sign that the waterfall’s ngen — its owner and protector spirit — approved of his visit and prayer that mid-July morning."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
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[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[9] https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_35a6437e-0794-11ed-9c1f-17b13725d574.html
[10] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-world-science-forum-2022-media-social-justice-fellowships
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/workshops/fellowships
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/africa
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/drought-frontlines-mexican-communities-strive-save-every-drop-water
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
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[21] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/mexico
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[23] https://www.sej.org/calendar/ocean-encounters-heatwaves-extreme-heat-land-and-ocean
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/other-events
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
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[31] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/reporter%E2%80%99s-toolbox
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[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy
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[36] https://www.sej.org/headlines/brazil-s-man-hole-dies-and-amazonian-tribe-no-more
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/south-america
[38] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/30/man-of-the-hole-indigenous-tribe-brazil/
[39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/last-days-louisiana-tribe-s-struggle-escape-rising-sea
[40] https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_70ac1746-1f22-11ed-bc68-3bde459eba68.html
[41] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chile-rivers-native-spirituality-and-development-clash
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