By Myrelis Diaz Martinez LatinaLista We do everything we can to protect the children in our lives so that they can grow into healthy, strong adults. As a doting aunt, I want my nieces to be healthy and safe…
By Juan Declet Barreto LatinaLista This year will mark nearly a half-century of the celebration of Earth Day. Enacted in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and Congressman Pete McCloskey – a California Republican, the first Earth Day…
By Mark Magaña and Dominique Browning LatinaLista It is a myth that Latinos don’t have the time nor interest to care about climate change. The truth is quite the opposite: Latinos have long been leading the fight against dangerous…
By Felipe Benítez LatinaLista September 22 marks the 25th National Public Lands Day, the largest, all-volunteer event focused on restoring America’s public lands. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and volunteer organizations from all across the country team up with…
LatinaLista — On March 2, 2016, the globally recognized Honduran Lenca environmental activist, Berta Cáceres, was brutally assassinated because of her efforts to fight environmentally unfriendly interests from exploiting the natural resources of her ancestral lands The last environmental…
LatinaLista — In today’s world, refugees are a fast-growing demographic. Yet, it’s not one often seen in North America. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Somalia, etc. where hundreds flee violence and invasion, it’s only when catastrophic natural disasters strike our shores…
LatinaLista — Long before Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey, Latinos knew that man had a hand in climate-induced disasters. A 2015 poll by EarthJustice and GreenLatinos found that 66 percent of Latinos believed global warming and climate change were…
LatinaLista — It doesn’t seem that long ago that one of the first environmental campaigns to capture global imagination and concern was the ‘Save the Rainforest‘ campaign. Everyone, from kids to retirees, bought stuffed, colorful toucans and sported green…
LatinaLista — Can you imagine a world without banana smoothies? Sliced bananas on cereal? Chocolate-doused bananas frozen on a stick? (gasp) Banana splits?! The idea that we would be deprived of the health benefits of the banana — not…
LatinaLista — Even with headlines like: Sea levels rose faster in 20th century than in previous 2,700 years or Drought now threatens virtually all U.S. forests or even this alarming insight – Zika Spread Worsened by Climate Change, it’s…
LatinaLista — More and more people around the world raising the alarm over humankind’s impact on the environment. Whether it’s overdeveloping land for new homes and disrupting the natural habitats of animals or draining underground water tables or polluting…
LatinaLista — These days, it seems among the daily news headlines there’s always one about how some species of animal, insect, plant or marine animal is under attack from the environment, climate change or man. A report in the…
LatinaLista — On the tenth annual Endangered Species Day, the world’s focus is saving one little winged creature that for a few months out of the year is the unofficial goodwill ambassador that unites Canada, the United States and…
