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José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, Daisy Rodríguez, said in a Facebook post that he died Friday morning. A cause of death was not given.Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park, at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black…

Transcript: When Hurricane Harvey hit the Houston area in 2017, part of Cristan Williams’s roof caved in. Williams, a cofounder of the Transgender Foundation of America, says during that time, members of Houston’s tight-knit trans community relied on one another. Williams: “We were kind of mutually checking on each other … because one person is flooding, another person doesn’t have power.” Recovering from a disaster can be especially hard for trans people. Those with nontraditional family structures may struggle to get relief aid. Trans people may feel unsafe going to a shelter where they cannot use the restroom that aligns…

Bangladeshi rice researchers’ concern over a Bloomberg report about methane emission resulted in the installation of a real-time data-providing GHG emission measurement laboratory.The new lab aims to refine Bangladesh’s piloting of the Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) method, which reduces methane emissions from rice fields.Researchers expect the precise data to improve AWD adoption to help meet Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments.See All Key Ideas When Bloomberg published a report on Apr. 8, 2021, identifying Bangladesh as the 12th largest methane emitter globally, attributing a significant share to rice cultivation, the country’s rice researchers were concerned. Equipped with…

SYDNEY, Thursday 20 February 2025 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has welcomed the Albanese government’s announcement of a new Green Iron Fund in Whyalla today, a move it says will support workers as well as national efforts to tackle climate pollution. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a $1 billion Green Iron Fund in Whyalla, SA today to, “boost green iron manufacturing and supply chains by supporting early mover green iron projects and unlocking private investment at scale.” Geoff Bice, WA Campaign Lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific said: “Greenpeace applauds the Albanese government’s significant investment into a green iron industry in Australia. …

PARIS —  Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008. The figure “reveals a horrifying escalation in the use of the death penalty by the Islamic republic in 2024,” they said in a joint report, accusing Iran of using the death penalty as a “central tool of political oppression.” “These executions are part of…

New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its importance to Māori tribes but also paving the way for its future environmental protection. The law, passed in January, notes that the mountain, located in Taranaki on New Zealand’s North Island, will be called by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga (maunga meaning mountain) instead of its colonial name Mount Egmont. Egmont National Park will be called Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki. The law also recognizes Taranaki Maunga and the surrounding peaks as a legal person named “Te Kāhui Tupua,” with “all the rights, powers,…

The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 continues to balloon, putting mounting pressure on nearby aquifers that haven’t been recharged by rain in 10,000 years. But Alto Hospicio, like so many other coastal cities, is rich in an untapped water resource: fog. New research finds that by deploying fog collectors — fine mesh stretched between two poles —  in the mountains around Alto Hospicio, the city could harvest an average of 2.5 liters of water per square meter of netting each day. Large fog…

Alfred LasteckBBC News, MorogoroBBCGrave after grave after grave in this cemetery in the eastern Tanzanian city of Morogoro has been vandalised.In some, there is a gap where a metal crucifix once stood, in others the religious symbol is bent as thieves, who were hoping sell it to scrap merchants, tried and failed to remove it.More than 250 have been targeted in one small section of the Kola Municipal Cemetery alone.The crimes mostly happen at night when there is no security there are no cemetery workers around.They have left families devastated and the sites desecrated, sparking anger.For more than two decades…

Randy Borman, a leader of the Cofan people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, died on February 17th.Born to American missionaries in the Amazon, he was raised among the Cofán people and became a lifelong advocate for their land and rights.Borman led efforts to gain legal recognition for over a million acres of Cofán territory, ensuring long-term Indigenous control of a vast stretch of rainforest.Randy coordinated and helped lead four Rapid Biological Inventories with Chicago Field Museum biologists and local scientists to establish protected areas.See All Key Ideas Randy Borman was never meant to be Cofán. And yet, from the…