Valerie Hamilton
Valerie Hamilton reports on the west coast and the US-Mexico border for US and European public media. She lives in Los Angeles.
Valerie Hamilton reports on the west coast and the US-Mexico border for US and European public media. She lives in Los Angeles.
How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Thousands of students in Europe and elsewhere have been skipping school on Fridays to demand their governments take stronger action against climate change. Some teachers and politicians are pushing back, but the students are getting support from their elders as well.
Greece hopes Brexit will stir a renewed debate over Parthenon Marbles
More than 200 years ago, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire took a large part of the decorative marble sculptures and architecture off the outside of the Parthenon and brought them to London, where they now sit in the British Museum. For nearly 200 years, Greece has been asking for them back, to no avail.
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
For decades, RWE has been slowly razing the forest and surrounding towns to expand its adjacent coal mine, among Europe’s largest producers of lignite coal and greatest sources of carbon dioxide pollution. And earlier this fall, the company moved to start cutting a new section that protesters have been occupying.
What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
Take-out coffee cups are a popular American import that are filling up the country’s trash bins. Now there’s an effort in Munich to replace throwaway cups with cups you borrow and return, inspired by the longstanding practice at the city’s famous beer gardens.
