climate change
Action on Climate Change Para Nuestra Salud
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco After President Obama’s comments on climate change during the State of the Union address, a new poll by the Natural Resources Defense Council affirmed once more […]
Fires In The Southwest Symptom Of Climate Change
By Renee Blake/Beth Blakeman, Public News Service – NM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Frequent fires are popping up around New Mexico from a mix of lightning, dry days, hot winds and bark […]
Clean Air Laws Don’t Kill Jobs; Pollution, Climate Change Do
By Peter Lehner Ron Craft is a fourth-generation cotton ginner in Plains, Texas struggling through a tough year.Earlier in the fall, he predicted business would drop by 75 percent, and […]
New Study Links Climate Change to Higher Medical Costs
By Frances Beinecke When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. […]
Climate Change Means Higher Medical Costs
By Frances Beinecke When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. Certainly […]
U.S. Climate Change Health Care Costs Hit $14 Billion
Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars and over 760,000 interactions with the health care system, are among the staggering figures resulting from a key set of climate-change related events in […]
Colombia’s Cities Risk Deluge From Changes in Andes Climate
By Autumn Spanne, New America Media/Daily Climate BOGOTÁ – Half a mile above this city of almost eight million is a rugged, fog-shrouded world, silent except for the trickle of water […]
Latino Climate Politics, or Seeing God’s wrath in the hurricanes
Hurricane Harvey left fear, uncertainty and ruin in its wake. The Category 4 storm left some people questioning what could come next, to which Mother Nature quickly responded with another hurricane: Irma. […]
Thinking of César Chávez and a Changing Climate
*Climate change and the environment may sound like new struggles, new causas, but they’re as ingrained as Cesar Chavez’s organizing ideas. VL By Jose Gonzalez, Green Chicano “It’s amazing how […]
5 Questions: Latina Climate Scientist On Carbon Emissions Rule
*The environment, superficially the president’s new rules on coal-fired power plant emissions, is vital to Latino health because we’re more vulnerable than others. VL By NBC News Now that President Barack […]