"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
People & Population
"60 Million People in Sub-Saharan Africa Risk Famine: Red Cross"
"Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike the risk of drought, the Red Cross said Monday."
Source: AFP, 10/07/2015
"For U.S. Tribes, a Movement to Revive Native Foods and Lands"
"On ancestral lands, the Fond du Lac band in Minnesota is planting wild rice and restoring wetlands damaged by dams, industry, and logging. Their efforts are part of a growing trend by Native Americans to bring back traditional food sources and heal scarred landscapes."
Source: YaleE360, 09/30/2015
Meet the Catholic Priest Fighting for Environmental Issues in Kentucky
Father John Rausch, an unassuming 70-year-old, has been helping the poor in Appalachian Kentucky and working on the environmental problems that plague them for more than 40 years.
Source: Aljazeera America, 09/28/2015
SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism Awards Grants to Journalists in Three Reporting Categories
In the Summer 2015 cycle of the Fund for Environmental Journalism, SEJ awarded $43,683 in grants to 11 journalism projects in three reporting categories. Pictured: Gabriel Popkin, a freelance science and environmental writer based in Maryland.
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NICAR To Publish Long-Suppressed National Inventory of Dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has for years suppressed full disclosure of the National Inventory of Dams, once a key tool for journalists reporting on dam safety — or the government's failure to ensure it. Now that tool is back in the toolbox ... mostly.
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"Study: Non-Whites More Exposed To Environmental Hazards"
"According to a new study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, African Americans and Hispanics are more exposed to health risks like air pollution, toxic waste and a lack of green space."
Source: UPI, 09/18/2015
Amazon Tribe Protecting Forest With Bows, Arrows, GPS And Camera Traps
"With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon."
Source: Guardian, 09/11/2015
"Climate Change Could Put Tribes’ Electric Systems at Risk"
"Heat waves, extreme storms, wildfire and other effects of climate change pose major threats to the electric power systems in Native American communities across the country, most significantly in the West and Southwest, according to a new U.S. Department of Energy report."
Source: Climate Central, 09/10/2015
"Red Cross: Water Continues to Be Used as Weapon of War in Syria"
"Water is being used as a weapon of war on one of Syria’s deadliest battlegrounds, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local affiliate, the Syrian Arab Crescent, in a new video."
Source: New Security Beat, 09/07/2015
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