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(Puzzle answers on Page 42)JULY 26, 2020. THE CLIMATE ISSUE.
BEHIND THE COVER
Kathy Ryan, director of photography: ‘‘This week’s cover
story focuses on the disruptive scale of migration
that may be approaching because of climate change. The
photojournalist Meridith Kohut photographed an Indigenous
agricultural worker, Martín Yat Chen, who is squatting
on farmland in rural Guatemala that has dried up from
higher temperatures and a lack of rain. We felt that this
stark image conveyed the anxiety felt by many farmworkers
who face an uncertain future, which may lead them to
become part of a mass migration that has already begun.’’
Photograph by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times.REFUGEES FROM THE EARTH
By Abrahm Lustgarten
New research suggests that
climate change will cause
humans to move across the
planet at an unprecedented,
destabilizing scale. For many,
the great climate migration
has already begun.83424
RIVER OF TIME
By Namwali Serpell
At the Kariba Dam in
southern Africa, an imminent
climate catastrophe echoes a
troubling colonial history.SACRIFICIAL LANDS
By Nathaniel Rich
To save the rest of the state,
Louisiana prepares to re-engineer
its coastline — and some fishing
communities might not survive.ECOANXIOUS
By Brooke Jarvis
A teenage climate activist
grows up in the shadow of
an uncertain future.Climate migrants from Honduras, where crops have been damaged
by climate change, hopping aboard a freight train in Chiapas,
Mexico, to travel north in search of work. Page 8.PHOTOGRAPH BY MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Copyright © 2020 The New York Times
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