Siri Chilukuri

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Climate Reporter at Freelance

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Michigan Researcher’s Work on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in Funding Freeze at National Science Foundation

1 week ago | ecotopical.com | Siri Chilukuri

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Michigan Researcher’s Work on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in Funding Freeze at National Science Foundation

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Siri Chilukuri

For two years, Ember McCoy has been researching air quality and the gaps in data collection in neighborhoods in Southwest Detroit where mostly Black and Latino residents live. The project, part of McCoy’s doctorate work at University of Michigan, is suddenly at risk. The National Science Foundation, a major funder across the world for basic research, was ordered by the Trump administration in recent weeks to stop funding and awarding grants. “I knew that things were happening at the NSF.
After Helene and Milton, Farmworkers Play an Outsized Role in the Cleanup – Scalawag

Dec 18, 2024 | scalawagmagazine.org | Siri Chilukuri

When Hurricanes Helene and Milton blew through the South in the middle of hurricane season, it was clear that despite past hurricanes carving paths through the region, this time would be different. This was true for so many people and communities that stood in the path of destruction—especially farmworkers. The flooding of fields with debris and stormwater would mean a loss of jobs for many farmworkers who had their season cut short. The damage was severe.
Project 2025 - Mother Jones

Nov 7, 2024 | motherjones.com | Julianne McShane |Siri Chilukuri |Michael Mechanic |Mark Follman

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Environmental justice? Not if Project 2025 has a say.

Nov 1, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri FellowBio |Siri Chilukuri

There’s one line in the sprawling, 900-hundred page document known as Project 2025 that sketches out a plan to eliminate hundreds of millions dollars of federal money meant to help protect some of the most disadvantaged people in the country from pollution and the effects of global warming. Project 2025, crafted by the conservative-think tank the Heritage Foundation, is widely-acknowledged to be a blueprint for a potential Trump presidency—despite his efforts to distance himself from it.
This climate author wrote a hurricane into his new novel. Then he had to flee from one.

Oct 22, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri FellowBio |Siri Chilukuri

Jeff VanderMeer insists that he does not predict the future. Yet mere weeks before his new novel, Absolution, hit shelves, Hurricane Helene tore through the part of Florida where he lives, sharing an uncanny likeness to the fictional hurricane in his book. Of course, there’s a difference between art and reality. The through line between the storms is the climate crisis that inspired VanderMeer to write the trilogy of books that made him a household name a decade ago.
This Scientist Doesn’t Think Hope Will Beat Climate Change

Sep 17, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri |Siri Chilukuri FellowBio

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has a tenuous relationship with the word “hope.” The marine biologist, policy expert, teacher, and author is too much of a pragmatist to rely on something so passive. Hope as a noun is defined as having an expectation of a positive outcome. To Johnson, that’s not in line with reality. In a chapter near the end of her new book, What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, she writes, “Fuck hope. Where’s the strategy?
The Sunrise Movement Thinks Climate Is the Key to Voters’ Trust

Aug 22, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri
The DNC Kicked Off With a Handful of Protests-And a Dozen Arrests

Aug 20, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri |Siri Chilukuri FellowBio

As the 2024 Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday in Chicago, thousands of protestors took to the city’s streets to demand an end to Democratic politicians’ support for Israel’s war in Gaza, where the death toll reached 40,000 late last week, and where United Nations experts have announced widespread starvation.
The EPA is enacting a historic pesticide ban

Aug 15, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri |Siri Chilukuri FellowBio

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was permanently suspending its approval of the widely used pesticide, Dacthal, amid a barrage of evidence of damaging, lasting effects on reproductive and fetal health—most notably among pregnant farmworkers. It is the most significant action the agency has taken on a pesticide in decades.