thalia juarez
thaliajuarez.bsky.social
thalia juarez
@thaliajuarez.bsky.social
Climate/Enviro Photo Fellow + US Commissioning Photo Editor @us.theguardian.com

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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
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November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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"As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations." Uprooter @thaliajuarez.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

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US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’
As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations
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October 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
‘Targeted assassination’: Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff condemned
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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New York City's Governors Island is transforming into a living classroom and launchpad for bold climate solutions.

A 172-acre vision of what’s possible when a city commits to resilience, innovation, and environmental justice. ❤️ 🌎
This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures
Governors Island, a 172-acre island in New York Harbor only accessible by ferry, has evolved into an incubator for solutions to facing climate challenges
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August 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities..."

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Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
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May 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Nearly half of Americans are breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared to a year ago and likely to increase in coming years due to the climate crisis and Trump admin environmental rollbacks
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Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants – report
American Lung Association’s study says almost 156 million people live in areas with unhealthy levels of soot or smog
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April 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
US interior dept is fast-tracking fossil fuel and mining permits, citing Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US interior agency to fast track fossil fuel and mining permits over ‘fake emergency’
Department cites Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration to expedite permissions from multiple years to 28 days
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April 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump admin kills a landmark civil rights settlement requiring Alabama to address raw sewage pollution in a majority-Black community www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration kills landmark pollution settlement in majority-Black county
Decision will affect mostly low-income Alabama residents as DoJ dismisses agreement over untreated sewage as DEI
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April 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The proposed cuts to NOAA cold have profound consequences not just for climate change, but for our national security and the entire economy. Here's what I learned: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
Democrats including Schumer say Trump is using antisemitism as cover to defund schools
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April 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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If you’ve seen a Christian bemoaning the “sin of empathy” or Elon Musk talking about “suicidal empathy” and wondered what that was about, I have an essay for you

tldr version is that they are wrong but I think that the details etc are pretty interesting and scary and speak to our fascist moment
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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April 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial

by @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial
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April 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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By me and @andy-rowell.bsky.social
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and regulatory rollbacks - bad news for the climate crisis, water shortages and consumers centershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
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April 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Scientists now estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit short-term and long-term climate targets.
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
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April 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A new Republican plan would exempt many new toxic Pfas or “forever chemicals” from health and safety review.
New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic Pfas from review
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April 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Dozens of EPA rollbacks have targeted regulations intended to save nearly 200,000 lives in the US by 2050, as well as prevent millions of asthma attacks, heart and respiratory problems and other public health harms.

by oliver milman & @dharna.bsky.social

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Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests
EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rules
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March 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Taking this information down really erodes the nation’s ability to keep communities safe and curtails effective disaster response."

the trump admin removed this fema tool. my colleagues recreated it and you can now access it here v
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, uprooting thousands of trees and leaving the region exposed to floods, fires and extreme heat. Read more & see photos from Fellow, @thaliajuarez.bsky.social produced with @us.theguardian.com
Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks
Damage to trees in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene was ‘extraordinary and humbling’ but urban areas face particular problems
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March 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Israel killed two Palestinian journalists in separate attacks today, bringing the death toll of media workers in the Gaza war to 208. They were Palestine Today’s Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera’s Hussam Shabat.
Israel kills Al Jazeera and Palestine Today journalists in separate attacks in Gaza
Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera Mubasher's Hussam Shabat were killed in air strikes across the Gaza Strip
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March 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Helene was the deadliest storm to hit the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina and yet the reporting on its aftermath has been minimal by comparison.

This piece by @ninalakhani.bsky.social is worth your time.

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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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February 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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By me: ‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors in rural Southern Appalachia help each other rebuild after the climate disaster as misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories swirl

@thaliajuarez.bsky.social 📷📸

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‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
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February 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A California city has passed a law targeting unhoused people that will ban camping on public property and make “aiding [or] abetting” encampments illegal – a provision that has caused worry among non-profits and advocates.
‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after California city passes law targeting homeless encampments
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February 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor and five high-ranking justice department officials resigned Thursday amid a scandal over orders to drop corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams.
Five justice department officials resign over order to drop Eric Adams charges
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February 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM