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Category Archives: Environment

In NYC’s Basement Apartments, Deadly Flood Risks Remain

September 1, 2022by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Environment, Housing, Local Economy, Poverty/Inequality, Water

How to Fix Food Supply Chains? Make Them More Local

August 16, 2022by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Agriculture, Economics, Environment, Food, Local Economy, Small Business

Conservationists Confront City Street Problem: Not Everyone Likes Trees

January 28, 2022by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Inequality, Public health, Race & Ethnicity

The Weight of the World

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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, […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Longform & Narrative, Rural poverty

In Rwanda, Learning Whether a ‘Smart Park’ Can Help Both Wildlife and Tourism

November 24, 2020by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Travel

Coronavirus Link Or Not Its Time to Crack Down on the Illegal Animal Trade  

February 21, 2020by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Africa, Animals, China, Environment, Public health, science

The Future of Wine: Very, Very Dry

September 23, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Agriculture, Business, Environment, Water

Solar energy boom leads to toxic trash in East Africa

May 13, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

  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 […]

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Africa, Business solutions to poverty, Clean energy, Environment, Public health, Rural poverty

Mozambique Looks Beyond Cyclone Idai to Better Protection in the Future

May 13, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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 […]

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Africa, Environment

Nowhere to Hide: Pangolins are the most poached in the world

March 15, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

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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Africa, Animals, Environment, science

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