By Haiti Chery (English) | Alliance Haiti (French) | CoRIS. Ile de la Navase, a Haitian island claimed by the U.S. under an arcane 1856 Guano Act and renamed Navassa Island, offers an opportunity for U.S. imperialists to return something to its rightful owners and for U.S. do-gooders to learn a thing or two from Haitians about wildlife conservation. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Sandra Steingraber, ORION. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty-four. I have uncles with colon cancer, prostate cancer, stromal cancer. My aunt died of the same kind of bladder cancer—transitional cell carcinoma—that I had. But here’s the punch line to my family story: I am adopted.
Continue reading →By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By FIS/MP, MercoPress. A team of marine scientists urge an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommend fishing in more productive and local waters. The only question is: whose productive local waters.
Continue reading →The classic Haitian tale, told by Dady Chery. KRICK? A long time ago, in a thatched house snuggled in a valley between the flamboyant-covered hills of Haiti, there lived a girl whose greatest ambition was to bring home the cleanest water in all the world.
Continue reading →By Ben Raines, Press-Register. Patches of submerged oil were found 40 to 100 feet off the beach, apparently collecting along rip currents and sandbars. Carcasses of sand fleas, speckled crabs, ghost crabs and leopard crabs were spread throughout the oil, a thick layer of the material caking the bodies of the larger crabs.
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