Articles by Yvette Cabrera

Yvette Cabrera is a former senior staff writer at Grist.

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Booker’s plan for black colleges would tap those on climate change’s frontlines to fight it

The New Jersey senator, son of two graduates of historically black colleges and universities, wants to invest $100 billion in the schools.

Yvette Cabrera Culture
Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Another reason to worry about wildfires: They could be releasing lead stored in plants and trees.

Yvette Cabrera Science
‘Climate chaos’ is displacing the world’s poor communities

Those 👏🏽 least 👏🏽 responsible 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 warming 👏🏽 are 👏🏽 suffering 👏🏽 most 👏🏽 from 👏🏽 it.

Yvette Cabrera Science
Vulnerable communities face larger threats under EPA’s proposed science rule

The agency's plan to disregard 'foundational' scientific evidence could be a catastrophe

Yvette Cabrera Politics