Current Event #5

Research one geography-related news story per week from the popular media

Geography-related current events can be found in the popular media (print newspapers like the Washington Post, magazines, and/or online websites such as National Geographic, Science Daily, etc).  News stories with geography-related content can include anything related to weather (hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, record snowfalls or temperature, etc), natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, etc), climate-change/global warming, pollution, demographics, border & boundary changes/disputes, mapping, species habitat, water, etc.  The one realm into which I do not want you to stray is anything related to outer space (planets, asteroids, NASA-anything).  Granted, geography encompasses and touches an enormous range of scientific and cultural areas, but this is a geography, not an astronomy course  For a story to be considered “current,” it must have been published within the past two weeks of it being used for submission.

Current Event #5 Answer

I have read an article in the Environmental Progress News published September 2021 with a header “How Do We Convince Farmers to Stop Burning?” The burning of agricultural waste such as crop wastes and other wastes causes great health and environmental problems locally and globally. Agricultural burning in one small farm may not seem to be huge but when it is considered yearly and regularly it would suddenly become a huge problem in the community and the environment in general. If we could imagine how many billion tons of agricultural waste have especially in developing countries that contribute to more serious health and environmental problems.