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Across Texas, High Fluoride Levels Are a Rising Concern

From the High Plains to Central Texas, public water supplies and unregulated wells serving several thousands of residents contain levels of fluoride some experts say could be harmful to fetal brain development.

By Undark

/ 17 May 2024

Across Texas, High Fluoride Levels Are a Rising Concern

Displaced to Death: Encampment Sweeps Increase Death Rates Among the Unhoused

Abatements, or “sweeps,” of unhoused communities results in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year in the United States, a former City of San Antonio outreach worker writes.

By Nikketa Burges

/ 17 May 2024

Displaced to Death: Encampment Sweeps Increase Death Rates Among the Unhoused

Texas State Troopers Called the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ at UT Austin Protests

Anti-Zionist Jewish protestors speak with Deceleration against the occupation of Gaza and the violent crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin campus.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 15 May 2024

Texas State Troopers Called the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ at UT Austin Protests

Deceleration Tapped for Inaugural ‘Latine Voices for Democracy’ Cohort by New Media Ventures

New Media Ventures and Valiente Action Fund announced that they are providing 10 media orgs—including Deceleration—funding and training to help better serve Latine communities and fight disinformation online.

By Greg Harman

/ 10 May 2024

Deceleration Tapped for Inaugural ‘Latine Voices for Democracy’ Cohort by New Media Ventures

Oil Companies Seek Permits to Dump 18M Gallons per Day Into the Pecos River Watershed

Texas regulators are issuing permits to discharge treated produced water. But questions remain about toxic pollutants in the wastewater.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 9 May 2024

Oil Companies Seek Permits to Dump 18M Gallons per Day Into the Pecos River Watershed

Even Deep Texas Coast Reefs Aren’t Safe from Coral Bleaching as World’s Oceans Cook

Some of the healthiest coral reefs on the planet exist off the coast of Texas and Louisiana. But researchers say the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary is no longer beyond the reach of fossil fuels and the extreme ocean heatwaves they are causing.

By Melissa Gaskill

/ 8 May 2024

Even Deep Texas Coast Reefs Aren’t Safe from Coral Bleaching as World’s Oceans Cook

VideoVIDEO: Foraging Dewberries at Canyon Lake

It’s dewberry season in Texas. Some practical advice and poetic reflections on red wasps, slippery slopes, and the exuberance of foraging in a time of peril and suffering.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 6 May 2024

VideoVIDEO: Foraging Dewberries at Canyon Lake

Mexico’s Fight to Protect its Corn Varieties From GMO ‘Wild West’ Gets a Boost

North American orgs have sided with Mexico in trade dispute that challenges Mexico’s right to limit genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate and protect a deep cultural and religious legacy.

By The New Lede

/ 1 May 2024

Mexico’s Fight to Protect its Corn Varieties From GMO ‘Wild West’ Gets a Boost

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

Federal regulators are targeting Spanish-speaking workers early this year in hopes of reducing deaths during 2024’s extreme heat. But large gaps in Texas heat surveillance means another avoidable season of suffering and death looms for workers, migrants, elderly, unhoused, and the incarcerated.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Apr 2024

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

A ‘Net-Zero’ World Is Not Sustainable—Necessarily

Focusing too tightly on emissions reduction can keep governments and grassroots movements from dealing with the actual sources of environmental decay.

By Undark

/ 20 Apr 2024

A ‘Net-Zero’ World Is Not Sustainable—Necessarily

In Ukraine, ‘Birds of Joy’ are Also Victims of Russian Invasion

As the Russian invasion rages on, two species of crane make their annual migration into ancestral habitats that have become a battlefield.

By The Revelator

/ 20 Apr 2024

In Ukraine, ‘Birds of Joy’ are Also Victims of Russian Invasion

VIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response

Public health experts and community workers convened this week at Deceleration’s ‘Heat Emergency’ forum to connect the dots between extreme heat’s causes, local impacts, and how best to interrupt the gathering crisis and (hopefully) save some lives.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Apr 2024

VIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response