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NEW SECURITY BEAT FRIDAY DIGEST (SEptember 26-30, 2022)

Top 5 Posts of August 2022 September 30, 2022 // By Amanda King In August's top post, Jiayi Zhou discusses an underexplored dimension of Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Farmland and agriculture. While the negative impacts of the conflict on food security have become readily apparent, the geography of the war clearly shows that Russia currently occupies more than one-fifth of Ukrainian farmland. Zhou observes that Russia's territorial ambitions are not only seen by its government as the preservation of an important natural resource, but also the extension of an overall Russian nationalism with broader implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and geopolitical ties. READ MORE

Catastrophe and Catalyst: Pakistan's Foreign Minister on His Nation's Climate Tragedy September 30, 2022 // By Claire Doyle On a recent visit to the Wilson Center, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari remarked on the historic nature of the monsoon-related floods that have submerged a huge swath of his country over the last several months. "These are no normal monsoons and no normal floods," said Zardari. "We are used to monsoons. We are used to floods. We have provincial mechanisms [and] national mechanisms to deal with such disasters. What we were not prepared for was for floods to descend from the sky." READ MORE

Fighting the Flood of Nurdles: Texas Fisherwoman takes on Taiwan Plastic Company September 29, 2022 // By Ruoyi (Angela) Pan Over decades, billions of small lentil-sized plastic pellets, called nurdles, flooded out of the wastewater pipes of Formosa Plastic's plant in Calhoun Texas into the Gulf of Mexico. For decades, Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherwoman in a rural fishing town called Seadrift, has been tracking and collecting data on the company's nurdle pollution. In 2019, after three years of constant sampling, she and her scrappy volunteers won a dramatic legal victory with a consent decree mandating 50 million in penalties for past pollution and fines if they do not clean up previous pollution or maintain zero discharge of plastic. READ MORE

The Missing Link: Stillbirth & Self-Care September 28, 2022 // By Elizabeth O'Donnell For many people, stillbirth— the occurrence of a fetal death at 20+ week's gestation—is a concept. A statistic. Each year, at least 23,000 stillbirths occur in the United States. It occurs in one out of every 160 pregnancies. Yet when these numbers become a reality in your own life, they take on a new meaning. READ MORE

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic September 27, 2022 // By Wilson Center Staff This article, by Sharon Guynup, originally appeared on Mongabay. In August, I traveled aboard the icebreaker Kinfish to the Svalbard archipelago, north of the Arctic Circle. Invited to the bridge as we cruised fjords near the 80th parallel, I was transfixed by towering blue glacier walls, but was confused by the map displayed on one of the ship's screens. It showed our vessel sailing across a non-navigable frozen sheet. READ MORE

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