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a woman walks in a field

You Can’t Eat Tobacco

by Louisa Ewald, Gabriela F. Gil, Jeffrey Drope, Hebe Gouda, Kerstin Schotte

Transitioning away from tobacco farming can improve food security

Environment
A woman sits next to Po's dry riverbed, as parts of Italy's longest river have dried up due to the worst drought in the last 70 years, in Turin, Italy

Italy's Po River

by Serena Giacomin

How a recent heat wave is affecting Italy's longest river

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