In NYC’s Basement Apartments, Deadly Flood Risks Remain
One year after Hurricane Ida, tenants in below-ground units are still vulnerable to storm flooding — as are 25% of the city’s residential lots. Bloomberg CityLabSeptember 1, 2022 One year […]
Category Archives: Environment
How to Fix Food Supply Chains? Make Them More Local
Illinois is connecting farms to food banks to help battle hunger and inflation Bloomberg CityLab August 16, 2022 Food banks in Illinois got a special treat last year: more than […]
Conservationists Confront City Street Problem: Not Everyone Likes Trees
Community groups hope to improve the canopy in minority neighborhoods through education and outreach. Bloomberg Businessweek October 28, 2021 Trees beautify neighborhoods, provide shade, and help combat sometimes deadly heat […]
The Weight of the World
2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]
In Rwanda, Learning Whether a ‘Smart Park’ Can Help Both Wildlife and Tourism
Atlas Obscura November 24, 2020 Emmanuel Kalisa helped kill a lion, one of the last in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park, around 2002. Lions often mauled cattle owned by local herders such […]
Coronavirus Link Or Not Its Time to Crack Down on the Illegal Animal Trade
Washington Post February 19, 2020 About two years ago in northern Uganda, I watched anxiously as an endangered pangolin was released into a protected forest. Wildlife authorities and conservationists had […]
The Future of Wine: Very, Very Dry
New York Times September 23, 2019 MITZPE RAMON, Israel — In the Negev Desert, the sun beats down on a parched landscape of brown, undulating hills. But on a parcel […]
Solar energy boom leads to toxic trash in East Africa
New York Times May 12, 2019 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men […]
Mozambique Looks Beyond Cyclone Idai to Better Protection in the Future
New York Times April 12, 2019 BEIRA, Mozambique — Daviz Simango grew up in Beira, Mozambique, the port city on the Indian Ocean, and has been mayor since 2003. He […]
Nowhere to Hide: Pangolins are the most poached in the world
Science magazine March 13, 2019 UGANDA—The small pangolin tucked its head toward its belly and curled its tail around its body. Clad in large scales, it resembled a pine […]
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