UA students look at Argentina's environmental issues
in series for Arizona Daily Star
This spring, 10 UA student reporters traveled to Argentina, the second-biggest and third-most-populous Latin American country. Their assignment: to see how a nation still trying to emerge from economic turbulence is addressing -- or ignoring -- growing global environmental priorities.
Their trip was an annual UA program in international journalism offered by the journalism department and the Center for Latin American Studies, co-sponsored this year by the UA's Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth. Alan Weisman, an associate professor of journalism and Latin American Studies, accompanied them. He has covered Latin America and the environment extensively, and is the author of five books, including his latest, The World Without Us, which spent most of summer 2007 on The New York Times bestseller list.
Read the series:
Saturday, June 21
Pulp friction: 2 nations at odds over huge riverside plant
UA student reporters gauge Argentina eco-priorities
Sunday, June 22
Refuge in a sea of soy
From beef to beans on Argentina's famed pampas
Saturday, June 28
Andean town that 'shouldn't exist' becomes trekking destination
Threatened berry helps give Argentine town its distinct flavor
Massive glacier defies the melting trend
Sunday, June 29
Foreign vessels taking huge but unregulated hauls
Monday, June 30
In Argentina's grape-growing region, hail-control efforts raise doubts
Hard reality: Overfishing may explain decline in crab harvest
Wines are changing along with the climate
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