Julie Dermansky

About

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers Universityโ€™s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

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Cleanup crews were dispatched to beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi, on December 27th to remove over a thousand dead fish and the remains of otherย animals. Scientists attributed the fish kill t...
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Members of theย Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribeย who live on Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana areย destined toย become some of the first climate changeย refugees in the Unitedย States. But that...
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TransCanadaโ€™s Keystone XL pipeline is not as dead as some of its adversaries claimed after President Obama denied the presidential permit for the border-crossing section of the tar sandsย pipeline.ย ...
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Hand-painted standing alligators holding signs that read โ€œNoelโ€ onย Tim Brownโ€™s lawn in Bayou Corne, LA,ย offer holiday cheer in an area where most of his neighbors moved away.ย  Bayou Corne, 77 miles...
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Americans Against Frackingย held an emergency conference call the day after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan revealed the new spending bill would remove the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil...
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South Louisianaโ€™s Plaquemines Parish Council voted 5 to1 on November 12 toย kill the lawsuits it had previously filed for damages done by oil and gas companies to the coast resulting in land loss. T...
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Betty Osceola, a member ofย the Miccosukee tribe and Panther clan, has made it her mission to protect the Everglades. Theย 49-year-old grandmother, who operates an airboat tour company in the Evergla...
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The battle to keep Florida frack-free is intensifying ahead of the 2016 state legislativeย session. Fracking became an issue last year after Floridaโ€™s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) re...
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When the news broke that National Geographic was sold to Rupert Murdoch, fans of the magazineย gasped.ย  A magazine known for its photo essays paired with reports often based on scientific research b...
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Pope Francisโ€™s resounding message that it is mankindโ€™s moral obligation to address climate change made many politicians uneasy during his visit to the Unitedย States. The Pope issued a call to take ...