
Ignacio Calderon
Climate and Government Watchdog Reporter at USA Today
data journalist covering climate and more for @USATODAY | prev words + photos in @coloradoan @imidwest | either running or complaining about my knee | 🇧🇴
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3 days ago |
usatoday.com | Erin Mansfield |Sara Chernikoff |Ignacio Calderon
The Trump administration is targeting Harvard's exchange student program, attempting to revoke student visas for Chinese nationals, and initiating deportation proceedings for students who participate in pro-Palestinian protests. So we took a look at where the college exchange students in the United States are located.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Ignacio Calderon
Before leaving her East Texas home, Paulette Goree checks her air monitor. If the hue is green on the connected phone app, she steps outside to tend to her backyard garden where she grows tomatoes, squash and peppers. If it is red, she stays inside. Over the years, she has watched respiratory illnesses strike her family one by one. Her sister died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Her father battled a lung disease. Her husband has it now. Goree has asthma herself.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Ignacio Calderon
The cooling system in her second-story apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had always been unreliable. But last summer, it failed for weeks, and the heat became unbearable. Erin Ashlock-Romero packed her bags, grabbed her three kids, including a one-year-old, and moved to her mother’s one-bedroom apartment to escape the high temperatures. She said many families were in the building, but not everyone was as lucky.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Andrea Riquier |Ignacio Calderon |Ignacio Calderón
In the housing market, homeowners insurance has become the embodiment of the effects of climate change. Over the past several years more frequent and more expensive severe weather events have strained insurance companies, even as skyrocketing premiums punish homeowners’ wallets.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Andrea Riquier |Ignacio Calderon
In the housing market, homeowners insurance has become the embodiment of the effects of climate change. Over the past several years more frequent and more expensive severe weather events have strained insurance companies, even as skyrocketing premiums punish homeowners’ wallets.
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Arizona lawmakers proposed a bill that would become the most restrictive law limiting wind power development in the US. @beecycles and I mapped this and found that if the bill passes, 90% of Arizona's land would be off-limits to wind projects. https://t.co/yGlSn0xB43 https://t.co/uhaV48d8Kf

This one's special to me. I followed scientists studying a bird that nests in Colorado and then migrates to the Amazon rainforest. Black swifts do this annual trip flying for 6-8 months nonstop, visiting my home country and coming back to my current home. https://t.co/7tbA1njVkf https://t.co/CA1mBz74Uo

In Colorado, 4 of the 5 largest wildfires happened since 2018. A combination of climate change, historic over-suppression, and people moving into fire-prone areas are making this risk harder to manage: https://t.co/Wxjp8Nn2bN https://t.co/rioxBxxDUO