Society Is Beginning to Repay a Debt of Gratitude to Latina Mothers Across the Country
Javier Sierra Giving birth is one of humanity’s most generous acts. We all are indebted to our mother for all our lives. Society, however, all too often exacts…
Bone Chilling News Out of Antarctica
Glaciologists have for the first time detected alarming signs in the world’s coldest place—East Antarctica. Due to recent years of extraordinarily warm temperatures, its ice shelves and glaciers…
Coal Is Killing Us
Javier Sierra The coal industry keeps treating our atmosphere as their private sewage, causing the premature death of thousands of people around the country every year. A…
The Dirty Tricks of the Dirty Energy Industry
Javier Sierra Ever since I became a parent, I have been unable to explain to my daughter what fuels the will of those responsible for the climate crisis….
‘The Largest Existential Threat’ to Humanity
Javier Sierra Hidden in the back pages of a small newspaper, a tiny article first warned us about the perils of dirty fuel emissions. “[The burning of coal]…
We All Hurt for Puerto Rico
“I hurt for Puerto Rico,” a Boricua friend of mine recently told me. It’s no wonder. The island is ever so slowly recovering from the worst environmental catastrophe in its…
Worldwide Thirst for Clean Energy
How would you like having to bath yourself with the same water previously used by your family, or to purify sewage water to do your laundry or not being allowed…
Latinos Are Fuming Over Diesel Pollution
It’s an unrelenting scourge that will stay with us from our childhood until our last breath. It is waiting for our kids every morning at the school bus stop. And…
The Chaos: His First Year in Power
“I love Hispanics,” once proclaimed Trump in celebration of 5 de Mayo. With friends like him, who needs enemies, as we Latinos have suffered enormously during his first year in…
América’s Worst Idea
Zozobra, according to New México tradition, is a dark character, half ghost, half monster, the enemy of everything good and decent who robs people of their most treasured possession, hope….