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Climate Change And Food Security: Coffee Farmers In Tanzania
Posted by International Business Times: Maria Gallucci on May 18th, 2015
International Business Times: Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, they’re planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable.
“Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling,” Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzania’s northern Kilimanjaro region, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news organization. “I need fast-growing crops...
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Could Fracking Boom Drive Silica Sand Mining Operations in 12 More States?
Posted by International Business Times: Maria Gallucci on September 26th, 2014
International Business Times: Victoria Trinko says she hasn’t opened the windows to her home in Bloomer, Wisconsin, in more than two years. That’s around the time a mining company began churning up silica sand a half-mile from her family farm, filling the air with tiny particles and making it harder for her to breathe. “I could feel dust clinging to my face and gritty particles on my teeth,” Trinko recalls.
Silica sand is one of many ingredients used in the hydraulic fracturing process. During fracking, operators blast thousands...