It’s been three months since Winter Storm Uri scorched South Texas, leaving stands of gray stalks where living trees once stood, collapsing walls of cacti and making puddles out of aloe. What better time to rethink what we are growing and why—particularly in this time of global biodiversity crisis.
For Indigenous scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer, Western grammatical norms of using “it” to refer to more-than-human relatives absolve settler cultures of moral responsibility for exploiting and dominating nature. Here’s
What a time to start a weekly news wrap-up on the climate justice front. Stories of sweeping and rapid change have followed the incoming Biden Administration: reentering Paris and punking
‘PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said “hell no” multiple times.’
Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams
In a clear
Though critical to forest protection and reversing the climate crisis, indigenous rights are under attack and losing the fight in Bolivia against agricultural interests.
Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias
Earth’
Monarch mural in Mexico. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region.
Raúl Hernández Romero received death threats before his body was found, family says.
Julia Conley
Human rights
In the absence of an effective response by Brazil’s right-wing government to an oil disaster five months ago, civil society is rising to the challenge.
Marina Martinez
A major
Greg Harman
A coalition of organizations and individuals launched a public campaign this week calling for the end of the violent eviction of the birds of Bird Island on San
A Close Reading of “Another View: Why We Support Moving Egrets from Elmendorf Lake Park.”
Editor’s Note: In an epistolary take on the traditional op-ed, Kamala Platt below responds
Bird-dispersing chemical warfare comes to the Westside’s little Aztlan, our ‘place of herons.’
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for part one,
How the slow attention of local women exposed an institutional war on the birds of San Antonio.
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Read part
At the U.S.-Mexico border, the migration of pumas and coati are cut off by physical barriers. Humans? Not so much.
By Kiah Collier and Neena Satija
Texas Tribune
