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.

onDec 31, 2015 @ 09:36 PST

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...
onDec 24, 2015 @ 05:58 PST

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...
onDec 23, 2015 @ 10:07 PST

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 ...
onDec 22, 2015 @ 04:58 PST

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...
onDec 17, 2015 @ 13:02 PST

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...
onNov 18, 2015 @ 11:22 PST

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...
onNov 15, 2015 @ 14:49 PST

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...
onOct 31, 2015 @ 05:58 PDT

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...
onOct 8, 2015 @ 11:00 PDT

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...
onSep 28, 2015 @ 17:07 PDT

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 ...