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"Zimbabwe's Drought-Hit Farmers Fear Hunger After Poor Maize Harvest" [1]

"Drought-ruined crops and a government mandate to sell harvests to the state raise fears of food insecurity".

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Food [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [8], 07/01/2022
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How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [9]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [11]
Biodiversity [12]
Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Fish & Fisheries [18]
Forests [19]
Government [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [21]
Policy [22]
Pollution [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
International [30]
Africa [7]
Asia [31]
Australia & Oceania [32]
South America [33]
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Public [6]
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"Niger Is In The Eye Of The Climate Crisis – And Children Are Starving" [34]

"Aguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought".

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Food [4]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: Guardian [35], 06/22/2022
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"Mountain Gorillas: The Ripple Effect Of Conservation" [36]

"I could tell she knew I was there. But the burly matriarch of the Nshongi mountain gorilla family was ignoring me as she plucked branches from a bush and lazily munched on the leaves, like a teenager working her way through a packet of crisps."

Biodiversity [12]
Forests [19]
Natural Resources [21]
Wildlife [37]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: BBC News [38], 06/21/2022
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Environmental Journalist Recounts His Historical Slave-Era Find [39]

The historic discovery of the Clotilda — America’s “Last Slave Ship” — is only part of the story told in a new book by Alabama-based journalist Ben Raines, which tells the far larger tale about the ship’s survivors, the remarkable Jim Crow-era community they created and its ultimate erosion when faced by decades of environmental racism. A review by BookShelf Editor Tom Henry.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Justice [15]
Journalism & Media [41]
People & Population [42]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
International [30]
Africa [7]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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"‘We Buried Him and Kept Walking’: Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger" [44]

"The worst drought in four decades and a sharp rise in food prices caused by the war in Ukraine have left almost half of Somalia’s people facing acute food shortages."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [45]
Food [4]
Military [46]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: NYTimes [47], 06/13/2022
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"In Nigeria's Disappearing Forests, Loggers Outnumber Trees" [48]

"Deep in a forest in Nigeria's Ebute Ipare village, Egbontoluwa Marigi sized up a tall mahogany tree, methodically cut it down with his axe and machete, and as it fell with a crackling sound, he surveyed the forest for the next tree."

Climate Change [3]
Forests [19]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: Reuters [49], 06/08/2022
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Global Satellite Data IDs Tensions Between Food Production, Biodiversity [50]

A recent study of global cropland expansion highlights several trends that are ripe with environmental news stories. One finding: New farm fields have taken over an area the size of Texas and California combined since the start of the century, an expansion primarily affecting biodiversity-rich natural ecosystems, with Africa leading the cropland boom. Freelancer Gabriel Popkin explores the latest data and the reporting possibilities.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [12]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [51]
Economy & Business [52]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [17]
Food [4]
Forests [19]
Journalism & Media [41]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [42]
Planning & Growth [53]
Science [54]
Technology [55]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
International [30]
Africa [7]
Asia [31]
Europe [56]
South America [33]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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A Castoff Bumper Leads to a Literary ‘Autobiography’ of Plastic [57]

Environmental writer Allison Cobb, in “Plastic: An Autobiography,” tells the story of the ubiquitous material through a series of interwoven narratives that range from her own experiences with it (including a discarded plastic car bumper), to the corporate origins of its spread and the way it’s now dangerously carpeting nature and damaging human communities. Contributor Nano Riley has a review in our new BookShelf.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [40]
Topics on the Beat: 
Consumer [51]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Health [58]
Pollution [23]
Waste [59]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [37]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [26]
Alaska and Hawaii [60]
International [30]
Canada [61]
Mexico [62]
Africa [7]
Antarctica & Arctic [63]
Asia [31]
Australia & Oceania [32]
Central America & the Caribbean [64]
Europe [56]
Middle East [65]
South America [33]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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"Somalia's Worst Drought In Four Decades Means Millions Need Aid" [66]

"It has not rained on Habiba Maow Iman's farm in southern Somalia for two years. Her animals are dead; her crops failed."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Health [14]
Food [4]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
Africa [7]
Source: Reuters [67], 03/16/2022
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