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Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

Dozens gathered, prayed, and marched in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest neighborhood to highlight the damages suffered across the coast due to what they describe as a history of elected leaders putting industry profits above the lives of residents.

By Gaige Davila

/ 22 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi Solidarity Action Decries Desalination & Polluting Industry as Election Gets Underway

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat

Traditional irrigation canals have long held communal—even ‘spiritual’—power while helping balance the water supply during droughts. But this communal system is increasingly threatened by commodication of water, growers say.

By Undark

/ 18 Oct 2024

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America’s farms?

By Grist

/ 17 Oct 2024

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

‘Clean Slate’ candidates charge that decades of prioritizing heavy industry has threatened the area’s water security and risks spoiling the region’s natural wealth.

By Gaige Davila

/ 16 Oct 2024

Corpus Christi ‘Clean Slate’ City Council Candidates Pledge to Resist Extractive Industrial Interests

Press Forward Taps Deceleration for Media Grant Dedicated to Reinvigorating Local News

Deceleration, a young nonprofit online environmental justice magazine with roots in South Texas, continues to gain national notice—and investment.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 16 Oct 2024

Press Forward Taps Deceleration for Media Grant Dedicated to Reinvigorating Local News

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

Dangerous online rumors that exploded after Hurricane Helene could be just the beginning, says emergency management expert Samantha Montano.

By Yale Climate Connections

/ 12 Oct 2024

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

A Deceleration Q&A with Alex Birnel of San Antonio for Justice in Palestine.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

Cómo protegerte antes, durante y después de un huracán como Milton

Te explicamos qué ruta va a seguir el huracán Milton y cómo protegerte ante este fenómeno meteorológico.

By Factchequeado

/ 10 Oct 2024

Cómo protegerte antes, durante y después de un huracán como Milton

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

Deceleration measured heat at one location and found reflected heat from the street was worse at the cool pavement location

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2024

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

“I want a safe world for my baby and all of our babies and all of our kids that have, through no fault of their own, inherited a giant problem.”

By The 19th

/ 4 Oct 2024

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

As the heat index drops below advisory levels in South Texas, my brain finally has energy to reflect back on how my dogs and I survived–and didn’t—the increasingly deadly heat of these past two summers.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 1 Oct 2024

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat