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Deep subsurface rift in Antarctica Pine Island Glacier center unexpectedly...

In yet another blow to our ability to slow climate change has occurred in the highly vulnerable West Antarctica ice shelves. This iceberg is more than 100 miles in size — 4 times the size of Manhattan-...

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Stephen Chu shares some sobering climate change math.

This clip had escaped my attention when it was posted to You Tube in December of 2016.   One of the most brilliant minds on the planet, Stephen Chu former Energy Secretary under President Obama, states...

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Ready Or Not, Puerto Ricans Could Be The Newest U.S. Climate Refugees

Thousands of US citizens have been lining up in the sizzling heat at San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín airport and at the San Juan harbor for a ride out of the storm ravaged US territory. Today, thousands of...

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María’s dead in Puerto Rico are underreported

Investigative Reporter Omaya Sosa Pasqual, has published a piece on her blog about the rising death rates in PR. The number of dead is so much higher than the official count according to multiple...

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Thousands of Caribbean hurricane evacuees arrived at Port Everglades in Fort...

And are they ever happy. The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ferried 3,800 storm weary passengers from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to the cruise line’s home port in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A crowd...

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Desperation Grows in Puerto Rico’s Poor Communities Without Water or Power

Phil McKenna of Inside Climate News has a must read piece for all those concerned about the deteriorating conditions on the island of Puerto Rico. The Trump administration’s slow response to the...

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Florida declares state of emergency to help Puerto Rico recovery

The rapidly deteriorating conditions on the island of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the infrastructure of the US Territory on September 20, 2017 is a humanitarian disaster. Most of the...

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Walruses face 'death sentence' as Trump administration fails to list them as...

In yet another move to erase President Obama’s legacy, Trump has decided to reverse protections to keep the Pacific Walrus from going extinct. This grisly proclamation was posted 10-5-17 on the Fish...

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Tropical forests are no longer a carbon sink-Now emits more carbon than all...

Climate change is really, really, really bad and we need to face the obvious fact that this is not going to end well for us. Humans need to pull it together, and work with each other to mitigate this...

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Teamster Truck Drivers Head to Puerto Rico-Shepard Smith Demolishes "Fake...

As well as other Unions to aid in the recovery of the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico x xYouTube VideoThe fake news video below that has been circulating on social media that a truckers strike on...

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USGS landslide impact maps from PR reveal the extent of the devastation and...

Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States has an area of 3,515 square miles, about 70 to 80 percent of which is hilly or mountainous. Approximately 60 percent of the population of 3.5 million lives...

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Desperation in PR - Residents are drinking from wells classified as toxic...

EPA headquarters has released a daily update on environmental conditions in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and the recovery efforts for clean drinking water. People are dying of thirst in some...

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US officials privately acknowledge serious food shortages in Puerto Rico

“There will be no food in Puerto Rico. There is no more agriculture in Puerto Rico. And there won’t be any for a year or longer”. José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico speaking...

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A CNN report found that water authorities are distributing water from known...

CNN broke a story today that people in Puerto Rico are being provided drinking water from a known federally designated contamination site, originating from a well at the Dorado Groundwater...

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'This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be Worse'.

“Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico may offer a preview for Americans of one of the most jarring potential consequences of global warming: the movement of large numbers of people pushed out...

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Masked and Armed With Rifles: Military Security Firms Roam Streets of San Juan

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) located in Puerto Rico, breaks the news that armed and masked men with no ID’s are now patrolling the streets of San Juan. Members of the United States Air...

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Raw Sewage pours into Lake Carraizo, a reservoir that provides drinking water...

Yet more grim news is trickling out on the environmental and humanitarian catastrophe brought about by Hurricane Maria after it barreled through Puerto Rico at 155 mph 1month ago. Twenty of the islands...

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The Race-baiter As Kindly Monarch: Trumpism in Puerto Rico

Climate change and extreme weather events are not devastating a random selection of human beings from all walks of life. There are no billionaires among the dead, no corporate executives living in...

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Rosa Clemente on Puerto Ricans Drinking Toxic Water & San Juan Mayor’s...

Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, independent journalist, and hip-hop activist. She recently returned from Puerto Rico where she and other independent journalists are documenting the rapidly...

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Afro-Puerto Rican call-and-response musical tradition known as Plena brings...

There is very little electricity, clean drinking water, or food in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria barreled over the island. But the spirit and resilience of the people is coming back to life through...

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