(L) Yes Magazine – Environmental Activists of Color Makaśa Looking Horse
(R) Harvard University – First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design
NY Times – Calculating Air Pollution’s Death Toll, Across State Lines
A coal-fired plant in Utah. In most states, about half of premature deaths caused by poor air quality are linked to pollutants that blow in from other states, a new study found. Photo credit: Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
Indianz – Northwest tribes conclude winter meeting with call to protect environment
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians held their winter conference in Portland, Oregon, from January 27-30, 2020. Photo courtesy ATNI.
Indian Country Today – The trend is clear: Climate change is impacting Alaska now
Charles Enoch, Yup’ik, of Bethel and Tuntutuliak, points to a spot in a snowmachine trail that looked safe to cross, but turned out to be a hole about four feet deep. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, 2015)
The Guardian – ‘Blatant manipulation’: Trump administration exploited wildfire science to promote logging
A massive smoke plume, powered by strong winds, rises above the Woolsey fire on 9 November 2018 in Malibu, California. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
E&E News – Meet America’s new superpolluters: Plastic plants
A proposed petrochemical plant near Baton Rouge, La., would be the industry’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States. A similar plant is pictured in Hahnville, La. Photo credit: Jim West/Zuma Press/Newscom
Yes Magazine – For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
Agricultural biodiversity is embraced through a collaboration between farmers in Nebraska and the Pawnee, who resided in the area before being displaced from their traditional homelands.
PHOTO FROM PAWNEE SEED PRESERVATION PROJECT
NPR – Australia’s Wildfires Are Releasing Vast Amounts Of Carbon
Much of New South Wales, Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, lay under a shroud of smoke Thursday. The state remains under severe or very high fire danger warnings as more than 60 fires continue to burn within its borders.
Cassie Trotter/Getty Images
New Year, New NTAA Website and Logo!
We are pleased to announce NTAA’s updated logo and website designed to better represent and serve Tribal Air Quality Programs! NTAA’s new website will help Tribes easily get the information they need to help advance and understand air quality and climate change policy. In addition to many of the same policy resources available for Tribes, there is a specific page for new “airheads.” Please let us know what you think about the new website and logo! You can find NTAA’s new website at www.NTAAtribalair.org.
Washington Post – Amid shut-off woes, a beacon of energy
Jana Ganion, energy director for the Blue Lake Rancheria tribe, stands in front of a solar array on the reservation. Its microgrid allowed the power to stay on, and the tribe shared electricity with neighbors. Photo credit: Mason Trinca for The Washington Post.
E&E News – Solar’s growth is hurtling ahead. China did that
China is building massive solar farms. This facility, which floats on a fish farm in Zhejiang province, is one of the biggest solar arrays in the world.
Photo credit: Imagine China/Newscom
Native Sun News Today – Tribal leaders demand environmental justice
Half a million people took the streets of Madrid demanding environmental justice on Dec. 8. An indigenous contingent of participants from the world-over led the action to keeping petroleum and coal in the ground.
(Photo COURTESY / Indigenous Media Rising)
Deb Abrahamson blames mining pollution for her cancer, keeps fighting toxic legacy on Spokane reservation
The Midnite Mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation is pictured on the left in 2011. On the right, Deb Abrahamson, a longtime activist on the Spokane Indian Reservation who attributes her terminal cancer to the reservation’s legacy of uranium mining and processing, poses for a photo at her home in Spokane on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (Jed Conklin / The Spokesman-Review)
The Spokesman-Review – Deb Abrahamson blames mining pollution for her cancer, keeps fighting toxic legacy on Spokane reservation
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