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, Bangladesh, Barisal, 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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Posted in Environment, General News, My Articles
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Also tagged Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, Barack Obama, Chatham House, China, Cleo Paskal, 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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Salty soil and worried farmers in southwestern Bangladesh
October 2, 2009 – 5:58 pm
I’ve read plenty of reports on how rising sea levels in the Bay of Bengal are slowly killing the fertile plains of southwestern Bangladesh. But at first glance, the land here looks anything but troubled. It’s a lush, green expanse of rice paddies and coconut trees canopied by a mercurial sky that, with little notice, [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Environment
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Also tagged Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, climate migrants, climate-change migration, Mongla, rice farming, river erosion, sea level rise, shrimp farming
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