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  • Forest Guardians and Discount Clinics: Rethinking How to Save the Environment in Kalimantan

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 6, 2016  //  By A.Tianna Scozzaro & Suzanne York
    ASRI-Clinic

    In the southwestern part of Indonesian Borneo, known as Kalimantan, there’s a small town on the outskirts of an incredibly diverse forest where the community has turned from illegal logging to stewards of the land.

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  • Culture and Rights: The Struggle From Within to End Female Genital Cutting

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  April 25, 2016  //  By Anubha Bhonsle
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    Ashraf and Shazia use the word “guilt” often.* Their voices tremble as they rewind to the day when they read an article in an Indian magazine, Manorama, that opened their eyes to the reality of khatna – the practice of female genital mutilation among their community. “We felt guilt – immense, powerful guilt – when we realized that this was not needed, that we didn’t need to put our elder daughter through this,” the parents say. “We had no idea this was just going on, prevalent, generation after generation.”

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  • India’s Thirst for Palm Oil, New South-South Trade Patterns Cast Doubt on Sustainability Initiatives

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 3, 2016  //  By Philip Schleifer
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    Patterns of trade and consumption in the global food system are shifting. In the past, most trade in agricultural commodities occurred between developed and developing countries. But, in recent years, the volume of South-to-South trade has increased significantly. Today, some of the most problematic crops in terms of their effect on the environment, such as soy and palm oil, are predominantly traded amongst developing and fast-rising countries.

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  • Adapting to Climate Change in Cities May Require a Major Rethink

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 1, 2016  //  By Linda Shi
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    Around the world, urbanization and climate change are transforming societies and environments, and the stakes could not be higher for the poor and marginalized. The 2015 UN climate conference in Paris (COP-21) highlighted the need for coordinated action to address the profound injustice of the world’s most disadvantaged people bearing the greatest costs of climate impacts. Among those at the COP were mayors from around the world advocating for the important role of cities in these efforts.

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  • New Research Reveals Climate-Food-Conflict Connection Via Nighttime Temperatures

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 11, 2016  //  By Raul Caruso & Roberto Ricciuti
    Indonesia rice field

    The effect of climate change on the emergence of violent conflict has become one of the more lively academic debates and is even bleeding over into the mainstream. Despite a substantial number of studies, results are contradictory and somewhat inconclusive.

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  • Lisa Palmer, Yale Environment 360

    Will Indonesian Fires Spark Reform of Rogue Forest Sector?

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    November 11, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Lisa Palmer, appeared on Yale Environment 360.

    The fires that blazed in Indonesia’s rainforests in 1982 and 1983 came as a shock. The logging industry had embarked on a decades-long pillaging of the country’s woodlands, opening up the canopy and drying out the carbon-rich peat soils. Preceded by an unusually long El Niño-related dry season, the forest fires lasted for months, sending vast clouds of smoke across Southeast Asia.

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  • Migratory Labor for Extractive Industries Creating “Sons of Soil” Conflict in China

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 13, 2015  //  By Isabelle Côté
    A mine worker looks at stacks of coal in an open-cast steam coal mine located in the Ordos mining district

    In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his pastureland in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia. He was dragged 140 feet and killed. His death sparked a month of protests.

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  • Jim Jarvie, SciDevNet

    Urban Resilience to Climate Change in Asia Critical as Strong El Niño Looms

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    September 7, 2015  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Jim Jarvie, appeared on SciDevNet.

    An advisory released this August by the U.S. National Weather Service warned this year’s El Niño could be among the strongest ever recorded, lasting well into the first few months of 2016.

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