Danielle Zoe Rivera

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

On September 29, Governor Newsom signed SB1093 - "Mobilehome Parks: Disaster Assistance." This bill is the result of hard work from MH leaders in Los Angeles, Ben Allen's office, nphs, and (most especially) Ryan Sears! Many congratulations! Read more here: www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/g...

Agreed, please place a trigger warning if you are sharing these videos. These are human beings and peoples' friends and family. I had to step away from my computer the first time I saw it.

So many women are suffering quietly because it is so taboo to share what they are experiencing (or have experienced)... Any movement towards removing the spectre around this is immensely positive.

Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.

if you’re getting behind on administrative tasks — car registration, doctor appointments, dental cleanings, passport renewal, organizing the house — I cannot recommend enough ✨writing a novel✨

And it features stellar new work from many of your climate justice favorites, including @aldasky.bsky.social, @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, @akirarodriguez.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, and many others. cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Emergency officials in Hawaii ordered people near a dam in the northern part of Oahu to evacuate on Friday and warned that it was in danger of failing after heavy rain overnight pushed the reservoir to critically high levels. nyti.ms/4spFbiE

As many teachers are completing syllabi for the coming semester/quarter, a reminder that this resource is free and available to all!

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A California wildfire wiped out this little-known ancient forest of massive trees just before major fire-prevention work was set to begin. “I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more. I am angry because this outcome was a choice.” www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Grist, Laura Mallonee has just published a critically important article on the Texas flood recovery and how unincorporated boundaries are impacting equitable recovery. I was happy to chat with Laura about my ongoing research on these issues in Texas and California. grist.org/extreme-weat...

Holy moly... our NIH grant wasn't canceled! I'm so thrilled! But that also means I now have TWO intense community-engaged research projects scheduled for Spring/Summer 2026...! 🧿 Wish me luck 🧿

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Life is chaotic right now, but watching this little Swallowtail caterpillar on my fennel plant grow and transform has been so thrilling this past week!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off!

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

It's been a looong 2-3 year process, but this book chapter is coming out at the end of the month! Timely as we can learn so much about organizing and resistance from Casa Pueblo and its founding family! The chapter is meant as a "thank you" to them. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.

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