As local governments elsewhere debate how far to cooperate with ICE, New Mexico already made a different choice. The Immigrant Safety Act shows what happens when states draw clear lines instead of leaving sanctuary laws open to interpretation. www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...

Even when it doesn’t make the daily news, our planet’s climate emergency nonetheless continues to unfold, and we still “need to act quickly on our rapidly dwindling opportunities to prevent dangerous and unmanageable climate outcomes.”

The numbers behind Trump's dismissals of immigration judges www.npr.org/2026/02/23/g...

In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks. But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

Documented human rights violations in detention centers ripple beyond the facilities. Local cooperation with ICE chills access to food, health care, and other essential services. When counties “interpret” sanctuary laws, residents face real risk. CalMatters reports. calmatters.org/politics/202...

"I feel like something valuable was lost knowing my kids didn’t learn Mam growing up." Carlos Pablo Ramos, a Maya Mam father in Oakland, navigates language, migration, and family across borders. My latest story explores his journey and how Indigenous languages survive in diaspora.

I work in science communications at UC Davis, telling stories about Earth and climate research. I also manage a bilingual newsletter on climate, migration, and human rights, centering Indigenous voices. Read it here → torchline.substack.com

Likely don't need to worry about getting people...in a few years all these people will be looking for a place to live when theirs becomes unlivable. Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They’ll Go www.vice.com/en/article/c...

The enforcement-first rhetoric put forth by this administration and its supporters is dangerous for the violence it exacts on immigrants and citizens alike.

Judge rules Department of Energy's climate working group was illegal arstechnica.com/science/2026...

A judge ruled that the Trump administration's preposterously fake climate science panel violated federal law, flouting public meeting and open record requirements: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

Did you know tidal creeks in Cameroon’s mangrove estuaries play a huge, long-ignored role in global carbon cycling? #Carbon #Climate

Had the privilege of writing about Claris Sunjo, whose research in Cameroon’s Wouri Estuary shows tidal creeks play a major, long-ignored role in global carbon cycling. A reminder of how much climate science still depends on data from tropical systems historically understudied.

For Millennials and Gen Z, the impacts of climate inaction will unfold in their lifetime. Floods, droughts, and extreme weather are uprooting communities in the Global South, yet “climate migrants" have no legal recognition. Source: www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...

In 2025, droughts and hurricanes in Honduras devastated crops, deepening hunger, and forcing women in the “Dry Corridor” into greater risk of violence. Climate change worsens these crises, yet stories from this region rarely reach global attention.

While the Trump administration’s immigration blitz hit Midwestern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, a quieter escalation unfolded in San Diego late last year with agents making thousands of arrests in and around the city. bit.ly/3NEmCrw 📸 John Gastaldo

AI is a migration engine. Energy-hungry data centers, mining for minerals, and local environmental strain are quietly shaping who moves, who stays, and which communities become politically and socially destabilized in the Global South.

Human rights groups say that southern Mexico — particularly the city of Villahermosa — has become a landing place for migrants being expelled from the U.S. on.nbcboston.com/RzyAJRl

Drawing on her family’s Maya Ch’orti’ and Zapatac heritage, her scientific training, and experience working with urban restoration work with tribes in Seattle, she explores the history of environmental colonialism and neocolonialism-- (2/12)

Latino GDP growth is the engine behind California as the world’s 4th largest economy. This highlights how structural contributions can shift an entire state’s economic standing.

An explanation on how ICE is running recruitment advertising. Through geotargeting at gun shows, UFC fights, NASCAR races, and military bases, they improve chances of reaching those with an affinity for "soldier" type roles. www.democracynow.org/2026/1/28/ic...

Federal immigration officers wear a bewildering array of labels, tactical gear and clothing accessories from different agencies, often wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves. It's sometimes not possible to know which agency an individual works for. This visual guide can help ⬇️

Just 32 companies were responsible for over half of global fossil fuel carbon emissions in 2024. Exxon, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and BP led the pack, while many of the largest producers keep expanding output and blocking climate action.

ICE and federal enforcement actions aren't just impacting undocumented communities. They are also threatening public health, safety, and trust in U.S. institutions.

Hundreds gathered at Harry Bridges Plaza before marching down Market Street, showing solidarity with Minneapolis and calling for an end to state violence while advocating for immigrant rights.

The Trump-Vance-Noem-Bovino Message to Americans: Obey or Die | Good and Pretti weren’t accidents, and they weren’t about immigration: these murders were unambiguous messages as clear as could be: “Get in our way and we will kill you, and nobody will do anything about it​."

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

“It has been 53 deaths now under ICE detainment since the year began. Shame!.” Ramsey Robinson, California gubernatorial candidate, spoke at a Bay Area rally in San Francisco following the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti.

Typhoon Halong wiped out homes and displaced residents in the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk. Researchers later linked the storm’s impacts to climate change.

My coverage from Harry Bridges Plaza: Hundreds rallied in San Francisco after the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti. Speakers including Ramsey Robinson and Sanika Mahajan called for grassroots action and an end to ICE enforcement.

Photos of today’s rally in San Francisco. Protesters filled downtown to oppose aggressive ICE enforcement following the fatal shooting of another civilian in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.

Oil in the ocean can travel significantly farther than researchers previously thought possible. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Around four billion people- equivalent to roughly half the world's population- experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.

Like the fast food industry, AI infrastructure externalizes harm, promising convenience and inevitability. In a few years, the industry will normalize damage before regulation exists.

Indigenous Central Americans are erased in the immigration debate. They get lumped in with Latino stories, face language barriers here, and if deported, return to Guatemala to be stigmatized and discriminated against. Their invisibility isn’t accidental.

Opinion | ICE ignores hard lessons LAPD learned after Rodney King beating Federal immigration agents are forgoing the basics that LA police espouse after their years of ignominy: de-escalation, accountability and protecting and serving.

AI is repeating the fast-food playbook. Just as fast food externalized health and environmental harm for convenience and profit, AI infrastructure is externalizing climate and resource costs, which will fuel mass displacement. torchline.substack.com/p/ai-is-repeating-the-fast-food-playbook

We need statements from professional orgs outlining the evidence on how family separation, violence, and trauma impact pregnancy outcomes and child development. #tweetiatrician #pediatrics #childhealth #publichealth #MedSky #MCH 🧪🩺🛟 minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/m...

In the age of Trump, are U.S. scientists ‘bringing white papers to a gunfight’? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

@noaa.gov has finalized a rule to expedite the permit process for deep sea mining, including applications for exploration and extraction beyond U.S. jurisdictional boundaries. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

As a major Atlantic current weakens, some of the world’s rainiest regions, home to millions, could lose nearly half their rainfall. Scientists warn this could devastate ecosystems in the Amazon, threaten livelihoods across the tropics, and push the climate closer to a tipping point.

Indigenous peoples have adapted to climate change for centuries through close observation of weather, water, soil, and land. As climate pressures intensify, practices like terrace agriculture offer lessons in risk and long-term stewardship.

What does it actually take to disrupt state violence, when even this wasn’t enough? torchline.substack.com/p/what-will-...

As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

For millennials and Gen Z, the consequences of inaction will play out in our lifetime. Poverty and violence are not the only forces driving people from their homes. Climate change is increasingly displacing millions from the very regions where the U.S. is imposing the harshest immigration policies.

The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”

The media spotlighted ICE violence when it took the life of a white person in a way it does not when local police shoot white people, despite the fact that police shootings are far more frequent and ICE killings disproportionately affect migrants of color. Full piece here.

Climate migration is a form of adaptation. We can build new pathways for safe and regular migration, writes Rachael Mellor of @betterworld.info.