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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Posted in Environment, General News, My Articles, The New York Times
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Also tagged Atiq Rahman, Barisal, climate change, Dhaka, environmental migrants, International Herald Tribune, Korail, mega-cities, Rabab Fatima, Saleemul Huq, slums
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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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Posted in Environment, Photos, Radio
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Also tagged 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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Posted in Environment, Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged fishermen, Khulna, river
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Baby monkey in Rangamati, Chittagong hill tracts
October 23, 2009 – 4:42 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Chittagong Hill Tracts, monkeys, Rangamati
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Dhaka harbor at sunset
October 6, 2009 – 11:14 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Environment, Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged 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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Posted in Environment, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged honey collectors, man-eaters, mangroves, Royal Bengal tiger, Sundarbans
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