Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”…

Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense white foam from the hundreds of industries that pollute it, she notes that the area is also getting hotter. “My father talks about how when he was younger, he didn’t need sweaters, because it was never that hot or cold…

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