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Jariel Arvin
Contributor
Jariel wrote Sentences, Vox’s daily newsletter, until leaving to pursue a degree in journalism.
He joined Vox in 2020 as an Essential Voices Fellow, covering climate change and world news with the Foreign team. Before that, he taught English in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Oakland, California.
Latest articles by Jariel Arvin
![Would better regulations and equipment mandates have prevented the Ohio rail disaster?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24443507/1247260682.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Would better regulations and equipment mandates have prevented the Ohio rail disaster?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24443507/1247260682.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Frequent derailments may also signal a need for more rapid deployment of infrastructure investment.
![Inaction on climate change can worsen the crisis in Afghanistan](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22850996/1234350373_copy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=24.474358974359%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Inaction on climate change can worsen the crisis in Afghanistan](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22850996/1234350373_copy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Everything is at stake for Afghanistan at this year’s UN climate conference.
![How kidnap-for-ransom became the “most lucrative industry in Nigeria”](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22750825/GettyImages_1234007284.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Bandits have extorted $4.9 million from ordinary Nigerians this year.
![How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22722451/1234009420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22722451/1234009420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
“These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany.”
![Haitian civil society leaders have a plan for the country’s future. It doesn’t involve the US.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22717412/GettyImages_1233976571.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663907284768%2C0%2C66.672185430464%2C100&w=2400)
![Haitian civil society leaders have a plan for the country’s future. It doesn’t involve the US.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22717412/GettyImages_1233976571.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0041387302375639%2C100%2C99.991722539525&w=2400)
“We want to be treated like a nation, not like a little sister or brother you tell what to do.”
![One of Canada’s top climate officials is trying to save the planet — by leaving government](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22706688/GettyImages_1228828445__1_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![One of Canada’s top climate officials is trying to save the planet — by leaving government](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22706688/GettyImages_1228828445__1_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Catherine McKenna spent the last six years working on climate change in Canada’s government.
![The Keystone XL pipeline is dead. But the fight against similar projects is far from over.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22650092/1232058830.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.496273048254%2C0%2C69.007453903492%2C100&w=2400)
![The Keystone XL pipeline is dead. But the fight against similar projects is far from over.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22650092/1232058830.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.696039416335%2C100%2C96.60792116733&w=2400)
President Biden canceled Keystone XL. Now Indigenous groups want him to nix the Line 3 pipeline.
![The far right is weaponizing climate change to argue against immigration](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22626048/AP_19158007663823_copy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The far right is weaponizing climate change to argue against immigration](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22626048/AP_19158007663823_copy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The right-wing solution to environmental problems: more borders and exclusion.
![4 winners and 4 losers from Biden’s climate leader summit](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22465511/GettyImages_1232459795.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=20.199173243142%2C0%2C59.601653513717%2C100&w=2400)
![4 winners and 4 losers from Biden’s climate leader summit](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22465511/GettyImages_1232459795.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=5.2987598647125%2C0%2C89.402480270575%2C100&w=2400)
Winner: Joe Biden. Loser: The coal industry.
![The urgency of the Black climate agenda](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22426912/GettyImages_1228693906.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![The urgency of the Black climate agenda](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22426912/GettyImages_1228693906.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Black advocates are taking the climate movement into their own hands.
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