by Adam Mahoney | Nov 1, 2025 | budget cuts, Caribbean, Climate Crisis, Disasters, Hurricane Melissa, Hurricanes, international aid, Jamaica, News, USAID
Out of many, one people. Kimisha Simpson says she’s confident that Jamaica’s national motto will rally the diaspora and others to help rebuild the island that was battered by Hurricane Melissa earlier this week. “We like to say, ‘We’re the heartbeat of the Caribbean,’” Simpson said. “Jamaica is an island that has given so much to the world — entertainment, the arts, the culture…
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by Yereth Rosen | Oct 18, 2025 | Alaska, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Disasters, Displacement, EPA, Extreme Weather, FEMA, Floods, Indigenous Peoples, National Weather Service, News, Trump Administration
After the latest catastrophic storm hit Western Alaska, displacing more than 1,500 people, killing at least one and leaving villages in ruins, residents face an existential crisis. Will the wide delta that fans out between the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers and has supported one of the circumpolar north’s largest Indigenous populations for millennia continue to be a place where Alaska’s…
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