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1 month ago | nexusmedianews.com | Peter Yeung

Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family had for generations. The breed of corn was central to his Indigenous K’iche’ community’s diet, a grain and pulse-heavy intake that dates back to the time of the Maya Civilization. But over the years, more frequent and intense rains — linked to climate change — came earlier in the year, disrupting the harvest.

Jan 10, 2025 | nexusmedianews.com | Grace Hussain

On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siċaŋġu Nation arrange twelve tables to form a U around the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale — tortillas, cooked beans, pickles and fresh squeezed lemonade. The market is one of many ways the nonprofit increases access to traditional and healthful foods that also happen to come with a low climate impact.

Jan 10, 2025 | nexusmedianews.com | Amal Ahmed

When wildfires swept through southern Oregon in 2020, Lena and her family lost 14 years of hard work almost overnight. Their home, their car, and most of their belongings went up in smoke. In the four years since, in their efforts to rebuild, they have also wiped out most of their savings, Lena says through an interpreter. (We are not using her full name due to immigration concerns.) Lena and her husband both work in restaurants in the sparsely populated Rogue Valley.

Jan 10, 2025 | nexusmedianews.com | Dharna Noor

As a fossil fuels and climate reporter, most of my journalism focuses on the need to radically overhaul the energy system. But the food sector also needs a makeover, as it creates between a quarter and a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. When scientists came up with a new climate-friendly food plan in 2019 and published their findings in the medical journal the Lancet, I read with interest. The guidelines called for more vegetables, legumes and whole grains, which seemed doable to me.

Oct 26, 2023 | nexusmedianews.com | Katherine Rapin

When Florida resident Scott Maynard, 67, opened his home insurance bill this year, he got a nasty surprise. The premium on his family’s four-bedroom home in Miami-Dade County had jumped from a little over $4,000 to more than $6,000. “Since we moved into this house eight years ago, it’s been slowly creeping up, but only by hundreds of dollars.” Until this year, when People’s Trust Insurance upped the price about 50%, said Maynard.