Everyone gathered underneath the central banyan tree that provided shade from the heat of the day. Not far from the city of Pemba, Mozambique, villagers clamored to tell us their stories of threats and lost land and livelihoods. This stop was the first of six villages I’d visit on my trip to northern Mozambique to conduct a field study of the…
There has been a recent, misguided Congressional push to export more natural gas in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. LNG is a form of natural gas that has been turned into a liquid so it can be stored and shipped to foreign markets. LNG poses a potentially greater threat to our climate than even coal, which raises the question as to why President Obama highlighted natural gas in his “all of…