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Whatever Trump Decides On DACA, These Young Immigrants Will Find A Way To Keep Innovating

Sep 1, 2017

Fast Company - One year ago, Alvaro Morales quit his office job to start something that had never existed before: a creative project that reunites immigrants with their homeland and distant family via virtual reality. Morales works with co-founder Frisly Soberanis to record 360-degree videos in countries like Guatemala and El Salvador, then deliver virtual postcards to people who can't make the trip home.

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Student vets help with Harvey rescue, relief efforts

Aug 31, 2017

Navy Times - Last Wednesday, the Student Veterans of America chapter at the University Houston hosted a back-to-school breakfast for its members. A week later, school would be cancelled and their city would be under water.

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How Climate Change Fueled Hurricane Harvey

Aug 29, 2017

WIRED - Hurricane Harvey has already dumped 9 trillion gallons of water on Texas and may leave even more before it backs up to the Gulf of Mexico. Starting as a category 4 hurricane as it made landfall on Friday night, Harvey, which has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, is breaking weather records every hour-and is leaving some scientists scratching their heads as to why it stalled over south Texas instead of cruising northward to Oklahoma and then to the Midwest as storms of this nature typically do.

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I was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist

Aug 27, 2017

NBR - ExxonMobil's deliberate attempts to sow doubt on the reality and urgency of climate change and their donations to front groups to disseminate false information about climate change have been public knowledge for a long time, now.

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