A drought occurs in one area of the world and its effects are localized, right? Wrong…
- Food prices around the world are up 10% thanks to the U.S. drought. (Grist)
- Liberia’s forests are threatened by shady deals that have handed 25% of its landmass to logging companies. (Scientific American)
- Shell Oil gets the “OK” to begin drilling in sensitive waters off Alaska’s coast. (Washington Post)
- Inspiration for the day: U.S. kids start One More Generation, a campaign to save South Africa’s rhinos. (Mongabay)
- Fifty years ago this month, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring changed the way we viewed the chemical industry’s impact on natural systems. (GreenBiz)
Tags: alaska drilling, Arctic drilling, chemical industry, DDT, drought, forests in liberia, global food prices, Liberia, liberia's forests, one more generation, Rachel Carson, rhino horn, rhinocerous poaching, rhinos, shell oil, Silent Spring, south african rhinos
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