No other delta region in the world is more threatened by climate change than the Mekong Delta, which is why the first installment of the series, up now, asks: “Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?”Three more articles by Mongabay correspondent David Brown, who traveled extensively in Vietnam to report these stories, will be coming out over the next couple weeks.We also speak with Mongabay’s Israel-based forests editor, Genevieve Belmaker, who answered a question submitted by Muneer ul Islam Najar, a PhD Scholar in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Pondicherry University in Puducherry, India: “I want to ask you how can a person living in a conflict zone contribute to the environmental conservation?” On this episode of the Newscast, Mongabay’s Indonesia-based editor Phil Jacobson makes an in-studio appearance to talk about a new series launched this week focusing on the Mekong Delta. No other delta region in the world is more threatened by climate change than the Mekong Delta, which is why the first installment of the series, up now, asks: “Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?” Three more articles by Mongabay correspondent David Brown, who traveled extensively in Vietnam to report these stories, will be coming out over the next couple weeks, and Phil gives us a preview. We also speak with Mongabay’s Israel-based forests editor, Genevieve Belmaker, who answered a question submitted by a PhD Scholar in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Pondicherry University in Puducherry, India: “I want to ask you, how can a person living in a conflict zone contribute to environmental conservation?” If you’ve got a question, send it to [email protected] and we’ll get you an answer on a future episode of the Mongabay Newscast. Here’s this episode’s top news, in case you want to read more about these important stories: Commercial trade in all eight pangolin species has just been banned Here’s how much forest we’ll have to destroy to feed our growing junk food addiction Saving Bangladesh’s last rainforest Can ‘plant blindness’ be cured? Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law All episodes of the Mongabay Newscast are now available via Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, Google Play, and RSS. Also, please consider helping us improve Mongabay by filling out our survey! To improve our services and prioritize new features, we’d be grateful if you could tell us how you use our free news service and other programs. All responses are anonymous, and the survey does not collect any personal identifying details. Thanks for listening to the Mongabay Newscast! We’ll be back in two weeks with another episode.
