Angely Mercado

New York

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Articles

Why Overconsumption Can Actually Harm Your Mental Health

2 months ago | teenvogue.com | Angely Mercado

Meg Locker, 28, didn’t realize that she was spending a lot of time and money shopping. Last January, while cleaning, she tried to take stock of how many bottles of face and body lotion she had and was shocked to see how many unopened products there were. She began to take inventory of hauls from other shopping trips and noticed that not all of her clothing fit in her closet; she had to step over tote bags from previous shopping trips. “It's terrifying,” she says.
Hunters of Color Makes Conservation Work Accessible to Everyone

Dec 26, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Angely Mercado

Tracey Campos sat in a tree, on a platform more than 10 feet above the ground, patiently waiting for deer. Decked out in camouflage gear and holding a crossbow, she quietly listened to the leaves falling and the chipmunks scrambling through the branches. Her long curly hair was pulled back away from her face and tucked under her hood. Campos had gotten up around 3:30 a.m. on a Sunday. Before the sun began to rise, she occupied her perch above the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island.
Hurricane season is more devastating than ever. Here's how to get through it.

Nov 1, 2024 | hothouse.substack.com | Angely Mercado |Cadence Bambenek

Dear Reader, This month we're publishing our 100 issue. At this milestone, Hot House's mission has never been more urgent. We're still reckoning with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene and Milton. Those living in Asheville, North Carolina, didn't think they'd have to worry about floods from Category 4 hurricanes.
Ranting somewhere in the intersection of climate change, popular culture, and the state of journalism

Oct 21, 2024 | mediamercado.substack.com | Angely Mercado

I’ve found myself back to this newsletter. 2023 and 2024 have been a whirlwind of changes. I lived through a second media layoff in November of last year. I was the last Earthling on the Gizmodo/Earther desk. Sometime in the summer of 2023 my left eye began to twitch from work stress. It got worse over time. It didn’t go away until about a week after my layoff. I do miss the people I worked with. They were great at their jobs and they were also lovely people to share an office with.
Perspective: In new song, Bad Bunny lights up Puerto Rico’s political corruption, climate inaction

Oct 3, 2024 | thexylom.com | Angely Mercado

A couple of weeks ago, we marked the 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Maria. A Category 5 hurricane, it was one of the strongest ever recorded to hit the Caribbean and the U.S. But the aftermath of the hurricane, just like we are now seeing with Hurricane Helene, lasted for months beyond the initial landfall.
Defining Community Development in Order to Fund It

Jun 14, 2024 | shelterforce.org | Angely Mercado

This article is part of the Under the Lens series In this series, we examine the state of the community development field, the challenges and tensions it faces, and some promising approaches to this work. The U.S. is dotted with community development corporations that were founded in the mid-20th century to improve economic conditions and quality of life in neighborhoods that had been disinvested from. But over time the structure of these organizations has become more formal.
See the World's Unsold Clothing in a Huge Desert Pileup

May 29, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Angely Mercado

The world’s fast-fashion addiction is wrecking the planet with its unsold clothing. It’s also contributing to an enormous and growing pile of clothing that is sitting in Chile’s Atacama Desert. SkyFi, a company that provides access to satellite imagery, recently shared a striking view of the Atacama Desert. The company explained in a blog post that members of its Discord channel had helped find the coordinates for the growing graveyard of trashed garments.
13 plantas invasoras que deberías hacer trizas

May 28, 2024 | es.gizmodo.com | Angely Mercado

La conservación consiste en preservar el mundo natural para las generaciones futuras y la salud de nuestros ecosistemas. Pero a veces, para salvar los entornos locales, es necesario Tenemos que matar algunas plantas. Específicamente, las plantas invasoras. No me malinterpretes, las plantas son geniales. Las necesitamos para muchas cosas, incluida la captura de carbono.
13 Invasive Plants You Should Rip to Shreds

May 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Angely Mercado

Conservation is about preserving the natural world for future generations and the health of our ecosystems. But sometimes, to save local environments, you have to kill some plants. Specifically, invasive plants. Don’t get me wrong, plants are great. We need them for so many things, including carbon capture. But invasive species, like these bugs, are horrible for their adopted environments, which may not have natural predators that can keep their numbers in check.
Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules - and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters

May 6, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Angely Mercado |Stacy Liberatore

Chinese scientists have engineered a virus with parts of Ebola in a lab that killed a group of hamsters. A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body. The group of hamsters that received the lethal injection 'developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human Ebola patients,' including multi-organ failure,' the study shared.