Natalie M. Cormier

Natalie M. Cormier supports global health research as Editorial Coordinator at the University of Washington's Institution for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Her interests lie in information, public policy, and international affairs. She holds a master’s degree in public service and administration from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s degree in English from The University of Texas at Austin. 

Parched land is pictured around the Lake Wegnia, in Sahel region of Koulikoro, Mali on November 22, 2019. Picture Shows a lonely tree, small and scrubby with many of its branches dead. It’s in a dry gully with a few other green scrubby bushes scattered in the frame—but mostly nothing but dry yellow dirt and sand everywhere the eye can see off into the distance. REUTERS/Arouna Sissoko
Environment

Weathering the Sahel

by Natalie M. Cormier

The overuse of land packs a punch that promises to get worse over time