"How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis"
"Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia."
Source: NYTimes Magazine, 12/16/2020
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Record Climate Disasters In Asia-Pacific Push Millions To Breaking Point
"Asia-Pacific has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross said on Wednesday."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 12/16/2020
Environmental Justice Stories Will Keep Proliferating in 2021
The surging racial justice movement has reenergized aspirations to correct the environmental injustices that blemish countless underprivileged U.S. communities. The new TipSheet, another part of our 2021 Guide, scans the landscape of trouble spots, from urban to rural, industrial zones to Superfund sites. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources.
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“You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism”
It’s been a half-century since the first Earth Day in 1970 and a new book from an old hand catalogues the advances and the setbacks in the decades since. BookShelf contributor Francesca Lyman reviews “You Can’t Fool Mother Nature: The Once and Future Triumph of Environmentalism,” and explores how a long view from a veteran environmentalist informs the field of environmental reporting.
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Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story
The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.
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'We Lost Everything:' Central Americans Flee North After 2 Hurricanes
"It took Luis Salgado years of manual labor to save enough money to open a small fresh produce store, so when torrential floods swept away $1,500 worth of apples, bananas and other fruits, he decided there was no longer a future for him in Honduras."
Source: Reuters, 12/04/2020
"Wildfire Smoke Is Poisoning California’s Kids. Some Pay a Higher Price"
"The fires sweeping across millions of acres in California aren’t just incinerating trees and houses. They’re also filling the lungs of California’s children with smoke, with potentially grave effects over the course of their lives."
Source: NYTimes, 11/30/2020
"Climate Justice Fund Counters 'Centuries Of Underinvestment'"
"Letty Martinez, Shiny Flanary and Xochitl Garnica spent the spring and summer taming weeds and planting crops on their new 2-acre urban farming collective, which offers free produce to low-income customers. Now, they're hoping to add a greenhouse and lighting powered by solar panels."
Source: NPR, 11/25/2020
"An Ancient People With A Modern Climate Plan"
"After a brutal storm in 2006, the Swinomish tribe off the coast of Washington state launched a strategy to deal with the effects of a warming planet. Now, 50 other native tribes have followed suit."
Source: Washington Post, 11/25/2020
"Punishing Hurricanes To Spur More Central American Migration"
"At a shelter in this northern Honduran city, Lilian Gabriela Santos Sarmiento says back-to-back hurricanes that hit with devastating fury this month have overturned her life. Her home in what was once a pretty neighborhood in nearby La Lima was destroyed by flooding."
Source: AP, 11/25/2020
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