‘A Slow-Motion Chernobyl’: How Lax Laws Turned a River Into a Disaster
A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.
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After the War, Before the Flood, in Colombia | by Jessica Camille Aguirre
The Colombian energy company EPM has developed programs for people directly affected by the dam, but the wider effects of a drastically altered ecology and changed landscape have reverberated beyond the obvious immediate emergencies. To the activist Isabel Zuleta, the irrevocable loss of a place—including all the unresolved issues of the disappearances and the victims’ remains—is the worst, final act of violence against its people. “That is incredibly painful,” she told me. “Because we, the displaced, have fought for the right to return. Without the possibility of return, it can no longer b...
From California to El Salvador, Climate-Driven Displacement Is on the Rise
Climate disruption is shaping migration patterns -- of humans and birds alike.
Life in Flames
Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán (Bolivia) Translated by: Mark Cramer (Paris) These days I am immersed in rage, pain and despair. The Amazon is in flames, the Chiquitanía is gravely wounded and beneath the fires, many of our hopes●●●