• blogTO notes the plans to build a large park under the western Gardiner.
• Centauri Dreams looks at Pluto.
• The Dragon's Tales goes to Syria.
• Far Outliers reports from a despairing Siberian village.
• Geocurrents notes that most Moravians live in Tanzania.

Al Jazeera America's Tom A. Peter looks at how climate change is undermining the coffee industry of Tanzania.

For the last 20 years, Fredrick Damien has watched as his coffee trees have produced fewer and fewer beans. Back in the 1990s, his half-acre farm at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro turned out as many as 330 pounds of coffee a season, but now ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera America's Tom A. Peter reports on the movement of Burundian refugees into Tanzania, a movement that might be more durable than many might wish.

When Niyonzima Peruz fled mounting violence in her home country of Burundi in 1996, she guessed it might be decades before she could return ( Read more... )

• Far Outliers' two most recent excerpts touch upon the catastrophic failure of Tanzania's one-country socialist project in the 1970s and suggests that the brekadowns in states in the former Communist bloc and in Africa had more than timing in common.
• Over at Inkless Wells I've read that Canada is probably heading for a federal election soon. Unless ( Read more... )

Stefani Baldi's study "The Italians of Tanzania" is an entertaining brief study of a national community that arguably isn't so much a community as it is an aggregate.