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		<title>Pastoralists in the Media: Three &#8216;E&#8217;s please</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, not so long ago, we were all mobile. Movement was what enabled our ancestors to track resources that were here today, gone tomorrow. In parts of the world where water, pasture or good hunting are not &#8230; <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/pastoralists-in-the-media-three-es-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4566&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change: Teens teach where others don&#8217;t reach</title>
		<link>http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/climate-change-teens-teach-where-others-dont-reach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 13-year-old girl interviewed me last week about my job, through which I communicate with journalists around the world about climate change and other environmental issues. She is part of the generation that worries about such things, according to a &#8230; <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/climate-change-teens-teach-where-others-dont-reach/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4550&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A changing climate demands change in narratives</title>
		<link>http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/a-changing-climate-demands-change-in-narratives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote — here and here — about my study of how media portrayals of pastoralists in China, India and Kenya can contribute to policy narratives that limit people&#8217;s resilience to climatic variability. IIED has now published my &#8230; <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/a-changing-climate-demands-change-in-narratives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4543&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unhappy endlings: What tales of the last days of extinct and dying species can bring to our own story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are all now dead and can never be replaced but at least they got names. Martha, Benjamin and Incas&#8230; Booming Ben and Lonesome George. They were endlings, each one the last known member of its species. Their names remind &#8230; <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/unhappy-endlings-what-tales-of-the-last-days-of-extinct-and-dying-species-can-bring-to-our-own-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4358&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can anyone identify the two birds in these paintings?</title>
		<link>http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/can-anyone-identify-the-two-birds-in-these-paintings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please help. Can anyone identify the two birds in these paintings?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4455&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian &#8216;international development journalism&#8217; contest excludes journalists from developing nations &#8212; again</title>
		<link>http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/guardian-international-development-journalism-contest-excludes-journalists-from-developing-nations-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>Once again <i>The Guardian</i> has announced a journalism competition which has international development as its theme but exclude journalists in developing countries from entering.</i> <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/guardian-international-development-journalism-contest-excludes-journalists-from-developing-nations-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=3018&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If we cook these tiny wasps, we put the heat on hundreds of other species</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the wings of such tiny creatures hang the fates of hundreds of bird and mammal species, and perhaps even entire rainforests. But new research warns that these insects could be “extremely vulnerable” to global warming. <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/if-we-cook-these-tiny-wasps-we-put-the-heat-on-hundreds-of-other-species/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4317&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A bit naughty? Secret filming exposes murky world of rainforest politics</title>
		<link>http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/a-bit-naughty-secret-filming-exposes-murky-world-of-rainforest-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeshanahan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Witness has released footage that exposes the way elites have carved up and sold off the tropical forests of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, then siphoned away millions of dollars through illegal tax dodge <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/a-bit-naughty-secret-filming-exposes-murky-world-of-rainforest-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4293&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kill off the animals and you change the forest &#8212; fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers who tracked the fates of over 470,000 trees of more than 1,100 species for 15 years show just what happens when hunting empties forests of their seed-dispersing wildlife.  <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/kill-off-the-animals-and-you-change-the-forest-fast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4256&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In under three minutes, a year in a forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The result is a stunning portrait of the seasonal cycles that breathe life through every layer of the forest -- and the soundscape is a rich as the view. <a href="http://underthebanyan.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/in-under-three-minutes-a-year-in-a-forest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=underthebanyan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15366762&#038;post=4267&#038;subd=underthebanyan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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