"The World’s Garment Workers Are On The Front Lines Of Climate Impacts"
"Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price."
Source: Grist, 05/07/2024
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"Extreme Heat Is Closing Schools, Widening Learning Gaps Worldwide"
"Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital city." "There is no real education in schools in this punishing heat," she said. "Teachers can't teach, students can't concentrate. Rather, our lives are at risk."
Source: Reuters, 05/01/2024
#SEJSpotlight: Shamsuddin Illius, Chittagong Bureau Chief, The Business Standard
Meet SEJ member Shamsuddin Illius! Shamsuddin is an award-winning Climate and Environmental journalist based in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He has been working at The Business Standard (TBS) as the Chittagong Bureau Chief since 2019. He also works as a stringer for Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency
Fast fashion’s lack of sustainability has long been the subject of news media coverage. But now the realities of climate change mean that fashion reporting must be reimagined to include the lived environmental and human rights realities of workers making what we wear, writes contributor Yessenia Funes in the new Voices of Environmental Justice column. Ideas and resources for getting past simplistic fashion industry narratives.
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"In Vietnam, Farmers Reduce Methane Emissions By Changing How They Grow Rice"
"There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded."
Source: AP, 04/25/2024
"Unstable Nuclear-Waste Dams Threaten Fertile Central Asia Heartland"
"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."
Source: Reuters, 04/24/2024
"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia"
"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."
Source: DW, 04/23/2024
"San Francisco Mayor Announces The City Will Receive Pandas From China"
"San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”"
Source: AP, 04/22/2024
LNG To Fuel Conflict, Profit, Warming in Coming Years
A partisan debate has flared over liquified natural gas, as industry, environmentalists and politicians wrangle over LNG’s role in climate change and the energy transition, heating and electricity prices, and international and domestic U.S. politics. Backgrounder lays out LNG’s history, starting with the fracking boom and bringing it up to speed with the war in Ukraine and upcoming presidential elections.
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