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Fire Is Not Brazil's Only Amazon Problem

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Robert Muggah, research director of the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro, joins Deep Dish to discuss the myriad problems across Brazil.

Children play in lake next to raging fire in the Amazon Rainforest.
Ria Sopala
Climate and the Environment

Sinking Jakarta Is a Test Case for Climate Retreat

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Tom Pepinsky  of Cornell University and the Brookings Institution joins  Deep Dish  to discuss the overcrowded capital city Jakarta’s sinking.

Passengers of a boat walk through rising sea water during high tide at Kali Adem port in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Reuters
Climate and the Environment

EPA's New Rule Replaces Obama's Key Climate Change Plan

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WBEZ
Karen Weigert

The new rule will replace the Clean Power Plan unveiled by the former Obama administration in 2015 and is expected to go into effect within 30 days.

EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks during a media availability at the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Washington. Climate and the Environment

From Chicago to Uganda, Clean Water is Key to Good Nutrition

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

Unclean water, poor sanitation, and lousy hygiene—and resulting diseases—combine with poor nutrition as the leading causes of young child mortality and stunting. 

Women in Niger water a vegetable garden. Climate and the Environment

Are the Sustainable Development Goals for Water and Food Working Against One Another?

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Global Food for Thought by Michael Tiboris

Food, energy, and water form a nexus in which increased access to one resource puts increased pressures on the others.

An irrigation system spillway in Cambodia
Dept. Foreign Affairs
Climate and the Environment

Achieving Food and Nutrition Security in the Face of Water Scarcity

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Global Food for Thought by Vanessa M. Taylor

Failure to treat water as a strategic, valuable, and limited resource is a direct threat to the global economy; the health of our planet; and the well-being of both current and future generations of humanity.

A farmer takes a break while tending his rice farm.
Wayne S. Grazio
Food and Agriculture

The Geopolitics of Climate Change

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

As extreme weather increasingly uproots communities and economies, leading experts Simon Dalby and Joshua Busby join Deep Dish to predict how climate change will affect foreign policy.

Clouds over wind turbines
Thomas Richter
Climate and the Environment

The link between climate change and wildfires in America's West

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The Hill
Dan Glickman

Although Congress has given greater resources to agencies that fight wildfires, we must go further: preventing or mitigating natural disasters must get the same resources and attention as our national security.

View of wildfires in California from a road Climate and the Environment

China revamps regulator for stronger environmental protection

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Axios
Dali L. Yang

This week China formally inaugurated its new Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) to replace the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Heavy smog in Shanghai on January 30, 2018, when the Air Pollution Index reached 235, a level considerred "very unhealthy."
Getty Images
Climate and the Environment

New Report Reveals Presence of Lead in Many Chicago Homes

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WTTW
Michael Tiboris

Lead doesn’t belong in water but it's showing up in Chicago’s water supply. A recent analysis found that hundreds of Chicagoans have been exposed to lead in their tap water.

Michael Tiboris speaking on-screen Climate and the Environment