climate change
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How The Climate Crisis Is Impacting Black People
Black and Brown Americans bear the brunt of rising sea levels and stronger and more frequent storms
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How Climate Change and ‘Heat Islands’ are Killing Black People
The nation’s history of redlining and other forms of housing discrimination means that climate change and the Black community are on a deadly collision course.
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VP Kamala Harris Gets Real About Environmental Racism
VP Kamala Harris warned that we “don’t have a minute to spare” on climate change, in a rousing speech on the crisis at the University of Michigan.
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Jackson Mississippi’s Water Crisis is a Warning! Climate Change Will Make It Worse for Black Americans
“We’re going to be doomed” if we don’t tackle climate change and address environmental racism, experts and water activists warn.
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VP Kamala Harris To Release $1 Billion For Flooding and Extreme Heat Relief
The new funds will be made available through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program
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Podcast Addresses How Climate Change Affects Black Communities
The Coolest Show hopes to inspire people of color to get involved in the fight against climate change
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Climate-Driven Flood Costs Will Impact People of Color To A Greater Extent, According To New Study
The Nature Climate Change journal estimates a 40% increase in flood risk in places where at least one-fifth of the population is Black.
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Carol Moseley Braun, the Nation's 1st Black Female Senator, Looks to Join Joe Biden's Cabinet
The first Black woman to serve as a U.S. senator, Carol Moseley Braun, has been out of public office for nearly 20 years. But she’s hoping to make a return to government—in President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet, nonetheless—with an unlikely position: Secretary of the Interior. Moseley Braun, who represented Illinois as a senator, expressed her interest…
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Africa Is Experiencing Some of the Worst Climate Disasters, But the World Watches California Burn. America Needs to Lead on Climate Change
Editor’s Note: This story is being published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This summer, on my social media feeds, I’ve been watching the hellish pictures of California burning, of Louisiana being torn down by hurricanes, of extreme temperature changes hitting Colorado, as these…