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By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

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Boston breaks the highest ever recorded tide, followed by frozen floods

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The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Boston, Massachusetts has officially broken the highest ever recorded tide since 1921 as a major winter storm swept over the region on January 4, 2018. As the storm passed by, the winds shifted and brought viciously-cold winds from the northwest, turning flood water into ice […]

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If only they Were Houston: 45% Puerto Ricans still lack Power

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US citizens of island “Territory” treated differently from White Mainland by Trump Administration

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Puerto Rico: On top of Everything Else, GOP Tax Bill is Racist

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, sent a letter to all the members of Congress yesterday, begging on bended knee for a supplemental disaster aid appropriation. That he had to write this letter is a profound embarrassment to the United States, since he had to remind […]

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Global Heating: 3 Largest Wildfires in California History all have Raged since 2012

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The Watchers | – – The Thomas Fire in California is burning for the 13th day in a row and has now grown to 259 000 acres (104 813 ha), making it the third largest wildfire in the history of California. As of December 16, the fire is only 40% contained and is still growing. One […]

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To stop Global Heating, Meat Taxes are Coming

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By Matt Mace | edie.net | (Euractiv.com) – – Estimates suggest that meat and dairy demand will mean agriculture will emit 20 gigatonnes of emission per year by 2050, out of the annual limit of 23 needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s targets. Investors say that the implementation of the Paris Agreement will lead some […]

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Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch’s Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

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The Watchers | – – 1. 1. Rupert's network denies global warming.2. Global warming burns down his home.3. The end.#LAfire https://t.co/FYbm19TY9z — jp (@jpdoctor) December 6, 2017 2. Wochit News: “Rupert Murdoch’s California Home Threatened by Wildfires” ——– 3. The Watchers | – – California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in […]

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Will Fleeing Puerto Ricans ever return home from the Mainland?

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By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada | (The Conversation) | – – Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the next few decades. Have Hurricanes Irma and María accelerated […]

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Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

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By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]