Hurricane season is on us and it's going to test our resilience further.


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NEWSLETTER | MAY 22, 2020
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** Reimagining Recovery
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I won’t lie. It has been a hell of a week for me. We went into it with warnings of a super-cyclone brewing in the Indian Ocean threatening to unleash its fury on my birthplace, West Bengal, India, and neighboring Bangladesh — both heavily populated regions that are already struggling to control the rapidly spreading coronavirus.

We had been anticipating this at the Journal for weeks as hurricane season began approaching and
new research ([link removed]) bolstered projections that climate change was increasing the frequency of destructive tropical storms. We worried that the need to keep distance during this pandemic would hamper rescue and relief operations. But the focus of my concern had been on the North Atlantic, on the people and places of my adopted country. Somehow, it had slipped my mind that my aging parents, extended family, and friends stuck in their homes in South Asia were facing the same challenges.

The destruction that Cyclone Amphan ([link removed]) wreaked along the Bengal coast in less than 24 hours — killing more than 100, causing more than $13 billion in damage, and rendering hundreds of thousands homeless while a killer virus lurks in the air — is heartbreaking. It is also a grim example of what we can expect in coming weeks here in the US as well, given predictions of an above-average hurricane season ([link removed]) for the fifth year in a row. And as it is playing out there, it will here as well — the poor and vulnerable will be the worst impacted. My family and friends have emerged largely unscathed, thanks to their socioeconomic status, but not so
the economically disadvantaged.

All of this brings home to me, yet again, what Aaron G. Lehmer-Chang has elaborated in today’s Journal article ([link removed] economy) : “Returning to our old growth-obsessed, consumption-driven economy would be nothing short of suicide.”
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Editor, Earth Island Journal
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Every spring, greater snow geese embark on long journey from the US Atlantic coast to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. This year, with the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act in flux, they face a heightened threat from industry.
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The world is now painfully aware that disease can jump from wildlife to humans, but it can also move from humans to wildlife, posing a risk to animals that come into contact with over-eager wildlife tourists.
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Herds of green moss balls that persist for years on glaciers and move around in a coordinated fashion? Scientists are baffled by these small glacier “mice,” but we are like, whoa, so cool!

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Ever wondered what’s under all that permafrost? A reporter went under Alaska’s frozen soil and found “something like glue or chocolate milk or wet cement” that smells “like a malodorous cheese… with an earthy finish and notes of sweaty socks and horse manure.” Now if that doesn't make you curious...

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