North Carolina residents, researchers, and farmers say the rapidly growing industry distracts from a massive hog waste problem—and the public health risks that it causes.
Category: Climate
Posted inDisaster Recovery
Disaster management is a key tool for climate adaptation
The latest IPCC report notes the importance of consulting marginalized groups while coping with disasters. That means policies and practices need to be changed.
Posted inClimate
‘Real solutions to root issues’: Making hurricane recovery more equitable
Six months after Ida, a co-founder of the Louisiana Just Recovery Network reflects on the group’s effort to repair homes and train workers.
Posted inDisaster Recovery
How to prepare for a winter storm
A roundup of useful tips, stories, and resources for Southerners.
Posted inClimate, Gulf Coast, Justice, Louisiana, Waste
New Orleans has a trash problem. Climate change means other cities will too.
Some neighborhoods went without sanitation services for over a month after Hurricane Ida.
Posted inClimate, Disaster Recovery, Gulf Coast, Indigenous Affairs, Justice
Without federal recognition, coastal tribes struggle to access FEMA aid
Louisiana’s coastal tribes have been left to navigate a complex bureaucracy of parish, state, and federal agencies in a moment of crisis.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, Climate, Florida, Justice, Land, Water
‘Preach now or mourn in the future’: How Key West faith leaders are confronting climate change
An island city’s billion-dollar route to climate resilience will need residential buy-in to succeed. Local places of worship could be pivotal.