Hurricane Ida Adds Misery to Cancer Alley, The Hummingbirds Gift, and more
Hurricane\xa0Ida left people in the Louisiana region known as \u2018Cancer Alley\u2019 with destroyed homes, no electricity, and polluted water. That\u2019s on top of the toxic air they breathe every day because of some 150 petrochemical plants in the area. We hear from grassroots activist Sharon Lavigne, a 2021 Goldman Prize recipient, about what it\u2019s like living through these disasters and what drives her to keep fighting yet another plastics plant.\xa0\nAlso, hummingbirds are truly superlative creatures -- relative to their size, they are both the world's fastest avians and have some of the longest migratory journeys of any animal. Sy Montgomery focuses on these incredible birds in her latest book,\xa0The Hummingbirds' Gift, where she looks back on her harrowing but rewarding time raising two orphaned baby hummingbirds alongside an artist and hummingbird rehabilitator.\nAnd join us on September 23 for our first Living on Earth Book Club event of the season! Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, will join Host Steve Curwood to talk about his new book Bewilderment. Register at loe.org/events\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices