"The Siege of Miami"
"As temperatures climb, so, too, will sea levels."
Source: New Yorker, 12/15/2015
Planning & Growth
Reporter’s Guide to Climate Adaptation
This new, mobile-friendly, digital guide from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, produced by longtime SEJ member Adam Glenn, features an extensive resource database and a series of backgrounders to help improve coverage of society’s preparation for the impacts of climate change.
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"Minigrids Seen as Fix for 620 Million Africans Without Power"
"Power grids that work at a fraction of the scale of a traditional utility have gained support from banks and developers as a way to bring power to the 620 million people across Africa that lack access to electricity."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/17/2015
"Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives"
"In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction"
Source: ICIJ, 10/12/2015
"No Poverty, Hunger in 15 Years? UN Sets Sweeping New Goals"
"A season of goal-setting begins this month as the United Nations launches a new 15-year plan to fight grinding world poverty, improve health and education and quell climate change."
Source: AP, 09/22/2015
Ten Years After Katrina: Lessons, Warnings, Rebuilding
As the 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe approaches, many news media are doing stories that try to make sense of it. For journalists, it's an inexhaustible subject because it's about people's lives and the moral perils of the governments we choose. It's about the looming catastrophes we deny.
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"'They Figured Our Neighborhood Is Black, So They'll Do It'"
"Residents of Southside Syracuse put up a fierce, well-organized fight to stop construction of a sewage plant and still lost".
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 08/13/2015
"Florida Leads Nation in Property at Risk From Climate Change"
"Florida has more private property at risk from flooding linked to climate change than any other state, an amount that could double in the next four decades, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project."
Source: Miami Herald, 07/28/2015
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