The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

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On Monday, an 82-year-old man in Oklahoma City set himself on fire when deputies tried to evict him and his wife, who has Alzheimer’s.

I’ve been monitoring evictions with similar outcomes since July 2021 and one thing is clear: this case is not isolated and won’t be the last.

'The day’s raid had destroyed a facility that might have employed a dozen miners. The number of people involved in illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon is believed to be as many as half a million.' Oh man this story newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Wow, 'a quarter of Americans now live in cities and states that are taking fossil fuel companies to court, according to the Center for Climate Integrity.'

One of the trials is already in discovery! So curious what they find...

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If Trump returns to office he has promised mass deportations on Day 1. But what do those flights look like? Here ⁦McKenzie Funk⁩ with a glimpse of this secretive contract system of flights from a little room at a Seattle airport propublica.org/article/seattl…

This story starts out like a horror movie and just gets scarier from there. Incredible work by Naveena Sadasivam Lylla Younes, two of the best reporters out there

Having watched the chipping away of women’s health care rights in the US with alarm, France will now enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution. Making it “irreversible,” says President Macron.

I sometimes joke “it’s another good day not to be the New York Times public editor” but the organization could *really* use one right now to investigate on behalf of the readers

Uber and Audi used carbon credits generated in a farm that employed slave labor

More worrying revelations about Verra - Standards for a Sustainable Future 's REDD+ carbon standard, this time from Brazil.

reporterbrasil.org.br/2024/02/uber-a…

More than 3/4ths of the 99 journalists/ media workers killed worldwide in 2023 died in the Israel-Gaza war, majority of them Palestinian.

More journalists have been killed in three months than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.
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The health situation in #Gaza is beyond words.

In my conversation with Becky Anderson I reiterated our grave concern about a potential full-scale assault on Rafah, which would cause unimaginable suffering. I repeated our call for all parties to work for peace.

One plastics advocacy group 'provides public school teachers in at least five states a classroom video that assures students they should not feel guilty about using so much plastic because plastics actually help the environment' 🫠washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Astonishing, infuriating story on the consequences of abortion bans.

'No states that banned abortion offer paid parental leave.' So Mayron had to return to work just weeks after a major surgery. She sometimes slept in her car at the hospital where her daughter was in the NICU.

Particulate matter kills people. The EPA is finally tightening the air pollution standard: apnews.com/article/epa-ai…

years after then-EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler refused to in Oct 2020 propublica.org/article/the-ep…

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Leaving this accursed site for 🟦. lisalsong at bsky.social

Honestly losing track of the number of carbon offset exposes being published: this one from The New Yorker goes in-depth with cringe-worthy admissions from the people running a huge offset project newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…