Our story on environmental migrants moving en masse to the megacity of Dhaka is finally in The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Thanks to photojournalist Ross Taylor’s fantastic images, the story was the front-page centerpiece of the global NYT edition. (Here’s the front page of the IHT’s Asia edition.)
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Now in the IHT/NYT: The latest story from Bangladesh
January 4, 2010 – 3:21 am
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in General News, My Articles, The New York Times
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Tagged Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh, Barisal, climate change, Dhaka, environmental migrants, International Herald Tribune, Korail, mega-cities, Rabab Fatima, Saleemul Huq, slums
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Copenhagen, Hopenhagen, Nopenhagen…
December 20, 2009 – 9:40 am
Here are a couple of stories I did for Al-Jazeera English: one on the public battle over whether climate change is real, and another on the geopolitics of global warming pacts.
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By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in General News, My Articles
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Tagged Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, Barack Obama, Chatham House, China, Cleo Paskal, climate change, Geoff Dabelko, geopolitics, global warming, India, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Jerry Meehl, Jim White, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Wilson Center for International Scholars
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Bangladesh’s ‘Climate Migrants’ on PRI’s The World
December 17, 2009 – 2:39 am
Thanks to an outstanding editing job by radio journalist extraordinaire David Baron, the first story from my trip to Bangladesh turned out unbelievably well. And it managed to air during the Copenhagen climate talks. A success, all around!
I will forever be grateful to the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Photos, Radio
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Tagged Bangladesh, climate migrants, David Baron, International Reporting Project., PRI, SAIS, The World
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River view in the Khulna disrict, Bangladesh
November 24, 2009 – 11:08 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Bangladesh, fishermen, Khulna, river
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Dhaka harbor at sunset
October 6, 2009 – 11:14 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Bangladesh, Dhaka, harbor, sunset
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The man-eating tigers of the Sundarbans
October 3, 2009 – 5:55 am
I’m not sure why I expected to see a Royal Bengal tiger slink through the swamp during our recent boat trip through part of Sundarbans National Park. This is the largest mangrove forest in the world. It’s wild and humid and full of thick mud that sucked in my Chacos (no, Joanna, we’re not in [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Travel + Culture
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Tagged Bangladesh, honey collectors, man-eaters, mangroves, Royal Bengal tiger, Sundarbans
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