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Inheritance of Dust
Across the developing world, massive swaths of land are quickly becoming too parched for human habitation, with nearly one billion people already affected by a combination of poor land management and climate change.
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Issue: Fall 2009 / Volume 85/4
Published: September 30, 2009
Lygia Navarro has reported from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina for the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as PBS’s Frontline/World and NPR’s Marketplace and Latino USA. She is currently a fellow at the Phillips Foundation and in...
Jason Florio is a freelance photojournalist who has worked around the globe for publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Outside, Libération, and the Times of London. His photography portfolio in the Spring 2013 issue of VQR, “Life on the River Gambia,” was a...