"The Nigerian Woman Cleaning Up A Land Soaked In Oil"
"It is the rarest of stories. A fix for an environmental disaster that is actually working."
Source: BBC News, 10/31/2022
Africa
"Analysis: Africa’s Unreported Extreme Weather In 2022 And Climate Change"
"From deadly floods in Nigeria to devastating drought in Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather events since the start of 2022."
Source: CarbonBrief, 10/27/2022
"Ethiopia’s Honey Forest: People And Wildlife Living In Sweet Harmony"
"The Gura Ferda forest in southwest Ethiopia is a beautiful example of a forest and local people living in harmony, says biodiversity and protected area specialist Julian Bayliss."
Source: Mongabay, 10/21/2022
"Flooding in Nigeria Has Killed More Than 600 People, The Government Says"
"More than 600 people have died in the worst floods Nigeria has seen in more than a decade, according to the nation's humanitarian affairs department."
Source: NPR, 10/20/2022
"Why Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships"
"In the misty forests of the Congolese rainforest, a small band of apes fed in a tree. Adult chimpanzees dined on fruit in the canopy, while a pair of young apes played nearby. But one of the playing apes was not a chimpanzee: It was a gorilla."
Source: NYTimes, 10/14/2022
COP 27 Egypt — From Afar, How UN Meeting Will Affect Climate Change Reporting
How will the UN’s yearly climate treaty talks in Egypt next month touch domestic U.S. reporting? The latest Backgrounder has an outlook, with close attention to the question of compensation for nations suffering the worst impacts of global warming, plus the politics of war and energy, methane and HFCs. The prospects for action in and after Egypt.
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"Prolonged Drought Brings Famine, Death and Fear to Somalia"
"DOLLOW, Somalia — A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time."
Source: AP, 10/07/2022
On the Persistence of Ocean Plastics
Concerns about seaborne plastic waste go back decades, but science writer Juli Berwald suggests that myths and disinformation about sources and solutions continue to cloud the waters. From lentil-sized nurdles to sprawling fishing nets, 200 million tons of plastic now fill the ocean and, for her, it has become evident that the ocean plastics story is really a land story. But will the newly signed international treaty on plastics offer relief?
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"Africa Wants Its Climate Money. Will Rich Countries Pay?"
"This year’s U.N. climate conference, set to be held in Egypt, is being seen by negotiators and climate advocates in Africa as an opportunity to push the continent’s needs up to the top of the agenda."
Source: Mongabay, 09/28/2022
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