As of Monday, the Department of Health reported 16,394 Ohioans have died from the coronavirus with at least 941,265 cases statewide since the start of the pandemic.
If you feel you’re hearing about more local people dying and seeing more obituaries in the newspaper, you’re not wrong: More people are dying in Hardin County than ever before.
Research Article
Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning
Sveta Milusheva ,
Robert Marty,
Affiliation Development Impact Evaluation Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America ⨯
Guadalupe Bedoya,
Affiliation Development Impact Evaluation Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America ⨯
Sarah Williams, Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Arianna Legovini
Affiliation Development Impact Evaluation Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America ⨯
Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning
This essay is featured in
Boston Review’s new book,
Climate Action.
Tallevast, Florida, is a predominantly Black, unincorporated community between Manatee and Sarasota Counties. If anyone outside of the area knows of the town of fewer than eighty homes spread across two square miles, it is likely because, about twenty years ago, its groundwater was discovered to have been poisoned by the manufacture of weapons-grade beryllium during the Cold War.
Environmental racism is global, but it is particularly common to Black communities in the U.S. South, where state authorities tend to allow more latitude to industrial polluters.
The plot will sound familiar: a polluting industry, privately owned but authorized by the state, is placed near Black homes, fouls the natural resources, and causes irreversible harm to the community’s health. Environmental racism is global, but it is particularly common to Black communities in the U.S. South, where state authorities tend to allow more