Currently en Puerto Rico — 16 de octubre 2023: Arriba de 90° de nuevo

El calor será una preocupación otra vez el lunes en Puerto Rico, ya que un área de alta presión al este de la isla continúa generando vientos del sureste. Las temperaturas alcanzarán el rango alto de los 80 grados en el interior y el rango bajo de los 90 en las elevaciones más bajas a lo largo de las costas. Habrá riesgo de calor excesivo en las zonas urbanas y costeras a medida que los índices de calor superen los 108 grados. El tiempo estará generalmente despejado, pero el lunes por la tarde serán posibles aguaceros y tronadas localizadas sobre el interior, el oeste y el norte de Puerto Rico. El Centro Nacional de Huracanes estado monitoreando un área desorganizada de tronadas sobre el Atlántico tropical oriental la cual proyectan habrá de convertirse en una depresión o tormenta tropical en los próximos días.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you need to know, currently.

Climate activists are no strangers to facing arrest and criminal charges for climate protests. Just last month, over 100 climate activists were arrested in New York City.

However, a “crackdown” on climate protests in Europe is raising alarm bells for human rights experts. The crackdown extends past Europe, Inside Climate News reports that the criminalization of climate protests is, “an increasingly global trend.”

In an interview with On the Media, climate reporter Amy Westervelt discusses how the Atlas Network, a collective of right-leaning think tanks, has worked to reframe climate protests as extremist and dangerous. This, in part, has led to an uptick in the criminalization of climate protests.

Westervelt covers this topic extensively alongside climate journalist Geoff Dembicki in “The Real Free Speech Threat” an investigative series on her podcast, Drilled.

— Abbie Veitch

What you can do, currently.

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