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Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying.

Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying. | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - September 21, 2016 7:07 AM
In Madagascar, the booming charcoal business is contributing to deforestation and may exacerbate the effects of global warming.
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Launceston College Geography's curator insight, June 13, 2017 9:51 PM

Deforestation drivers
Alex Smiga's curator insight, August 9, 2017 9:41 AM
If we know that furthering education and economic opportunities will help alleviate the problems present here, why aren't we as a planet seeing that they are implemented? 
brielle blais's curator insight, May 1, 2018 10:23 PM
Charcoal has become the unlikely hero of the informal economy of Africa. This is a positive for the economy. However, this is not a positive for the environment. Deforestation has become a large issue since the boom of more people using charcoal. This will speed up the issue of climate change. This post shows the negative and positives a product can have involving geography.
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Rice and Beans Solve Madagascar Mystery

Rice and Beans Solve Madagascar Mystery | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.newhistorian.com - June 5, 2016 11:33 AM
The native language of Madagascar is Malagasy – which doesn’t seem particularly interesting until you realize that Malagasy is a language unique to the Pacific and Southeast Asia region, 6,000 miles away, and that researchers have never found any evidence that the island of Madagascar had been inhabited by anyone from that region. Now, recently …

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