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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Mélissa Godin ## Mélissa Godin Articles 91Collections 3 *  Mar 12, 2024 ### [Sweden's Reindeer Are Under Threat, say Indigenous Herders](https://time.com/6899748/deforestation-sweden-reindeer-sami-herders/) Sweden's reindeer need old-growth trees to survive. But scientists say logging is pushing these fore... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Oct 25, 2022 ### [The Fight to Save Ecuador’s Sacred River](https://time.com/6224546/fight-to-save-ecuador-piatua-river/) A court case will test whether Indigenous communities will have their voices heard in the green ener... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Feb 19, 2021 ### [Lawyers Are Working to Put 'Ecocide' on Par with War Crimes. Could an International Law Hold Major Polluters to Account?](https://time.com/5940759/ecocide-law-environment-destruction-icc/) Creating a legal definition of "ecocide" would allow environmental destruction to be prosecuted in t... [SCIENCE](/section/science/) *  Dec 31, 2020 ### [How Domestic Abusers Have Exploited Technology During the Pandemic](https://time.com/5922566/technology-domestic-abuse-coronavirus-pandemic/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Oct 9, 2020 ### [She Was Racially Abused by Hospital Staff as She Lay Dying. Now a Canadian Indigenous Woman's Death Is Forcing a Reckoning on Racism](https://time.com/5898422/joyce-echaquan-indigenous-protests-canada/) “She spent her final days in agony, surrounded by people who held her in contempt, people who were s... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 9, 2020 ### [How COVID-19 Has Hit Refugee Camps](https://time.com/5893135/covid-19-refugee-camps/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 23, 2020 ### [Europe's COVID-19 Cases Are Spiking. Here's How 4 Different Countries Are Trying to Stop A Second Wave](https://time.com/5892349/europe-covid-19-lockdowns/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 10, 2020 ### [Blaze That Destroyed Greece's Moria Refugee Camp Symbolizes Breakdown in E.U. Over Future of Migrants](https://time.com/5887085/greece-moria-refugee-camp-blaze/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 4, 2020 ### [The Ocean Farmers Trying to Save the World With Seaweed](https://time.com/5848994/seaweed-climate-change-solution/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 2, 2020 ### [Children Across Europe Are Going Back to School. Here's How 3 Countries Are Managing It](https://time.com/5885554/europe-schools-reopening-germany-scotland-norway/) Germany, Scotland and Norway are reopening schools, but not without incident [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 14, 2020 ### [Can New Zealand Contain a New COVID-19 Outbreak?](https://time.com/5879177/new-zealand-coronavirus-cases/) The latest outbreak in New Zealand shows that even in a COVID-free nation, COVID-19 remains a threat [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 30, 2020 ### [A Third of Children Globally May Have Dangerous Levels of Lead in Their Blood, According to a New Report](https://time.com/5873584/children-globally-lead-blood/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 29, 2020 ### [Record Number of Environmental Activists Killed In 2019](https://time.com/5873137/record-number-killing-environmental-activists-2019/) An environmental NGO says the actual death toll is likely much higher, as many cases go unreported [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 24, 2020 ### [Spain Is Facing a Second Wave of Coronavirus Outbreaks. Here's What to Know](https://time.com/5871218/spain-coronavirus-cases/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 22, 2020 ### [13 Religious Sisters Have Died From COVID-19 at a Single Convent in Michigan](https://time.com/5869948/13-nuns-felician-sisters-die-coronavirus-michigan/) The women, aged 69 to 99, were all members of a Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, Michigan [U.S.](/section/us/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/melissa-godin/","name":"Mélissa Godin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/melissa-godin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/melissa-godin/"},"name":"Mélissa Godin","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-godin/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```