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"Madagascar Faces One Of The World's First Climate Change Famines" [30]

"As the African island nation experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world."

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Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [33], 09/08/2021

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Madagascar Headed Toward Climate Change-Linked Famine It Did Not Create [34]

"In Madagascar, hunger has already left people eating raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, even the very locusts that helped decimate crops. The southern part of the country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with the World Food Program warning that 1.14 million people are food-insecure and 400,000 people are headed toward starvation."

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Source: Washington Post [35], 07/08/2021

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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [36]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

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"Sudan Asks U.N. Security Council To Meet Over Ethiopia's Blue Nile Dam" [42]

"Sudan asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to meet and discuss a dispute over a giant dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, a government statement said."

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Source: Reuters [43], 06/23/2021

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New Oilfield In African Wilderness Threatens Lives Of 130,000 Elephants [44]

"Tens of thousands of African elephants are under threat from plans for a massive new oilfield in one of the continent’s last great wildernesses, experts have warned."

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Source: Guardian [46], 06/22/2021

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"Arab States Call On U.N. Security Council To Meet Over Ethiopian Dam" [47]

"Arab states are calling on the U.N. Security Council to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia’s plan to fill a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday after a foreign ministers’ meeting."

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Source: Reuters [48], 06/16/2021

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"Intruder Pests May Drain Trillions From Africa’s Economies, Study Finds" [49]

"The financial burdens caused by invasive pests and plants in Africa may total more than $3.5 trillion per year, according to a study published Thursday."

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Source: NYTimes [51], 05/20/2021

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“Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism” [52]

While a “Handbook of Environmental Journalism” might initially sound like a scholarly work on environmental journalism, our BookShelf reviewer finds that the volume reads more like an engaging assembly of accessible accounts on the profession from colleagues across the planet. That makes it a rich resource for working journalists ... and anyone else with a passing interest in environmental issues and how they’re covered.

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As Climate Change Threatens Kenyan Tea, Millions Of Workers Seen At Risk [58]

"Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British charity Christian Aid warned on Monday."

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