Climate Change

"Survey: 3.3 Million US Adults Displaced By Natural Disasters"

"More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations, according to first-of-its-kind survey results from the U.S. Census Bureau."

Source: AP, 01/06/2023

Lula’s First Pro-Environment Acts Protect Indigenous People And The Amazon

"In the first day of his third mandate as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued measures to protect the Amazon and Indigenous people, acts highly celebrated by environmentalists and activists as a reversal of an anti-environment-and-Indigenous era from predecessor Jair Bolsonaro."

Source: Mongabay, 01/05/2023

"Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange"

"Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming more acidic. This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been in operation for decades, and scientists want to know why."

Source: High Country News, 01/05/2023

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