When Lorena Rios-Mendoza starting telling people she believed the same microplastics that are in the oceans also were likely plaguing the Great Lakes, her colleagues thought she was crazy. "Plastic is ...

Lorena Ríos is a multimedia journalist based in Mexico City. She has covered migration and displacement from the Middle East and the Americas, as well as culture and politics. With husbands dying—from ...

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