Climate Surprises: A Special Series + OZY’s Top Ten

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Saturday Nov 16, 2019 1 [Opinion]( [Opinion]( [Climate Surprises]( This OZY series captures the global warming-induced changes you've never thought about. The reality of climate change hits us harder with every passing extreme weather event — drought or flood, hurricane or heatwave. Severe water shortages parch Cape Town and Chennai, forest fires singe California, storms batter the Caribbean and the threat of drowning looms over low-lying islands in the Pacific. But the impacts of climate change extend well beyond the news we read on the front pages of newspapers and on our mobile apps with increasing frequency. OZY’s latest original series, Climate Surprises, gives you a front-row seat to the global warming–induced changes — from your home to your holiday and from forests to food — that you’ve never heard about, but that could shape the world. [READ MORE]( 2 [The New + the Next]( [The New + the Next]( [How Climate Change Is Pushing This Desert State to Fish]( Somaliland doesn’t have a history of fishing. Now it’s building its economy around it. Danish shipowner Per Gullestrup had been through the trauma of negotiating the release of his vessel and crew — hijacked by Somali pirates — when he decided to tackle the problem at its source by developing alternative opportunities for local communities. He established Fair Fishing, a nonprofit organization aimed at creating jobs, driving economic growth and improving nutrition and food security, all through fishing. War-torn Somalia wasn’t an option, so he started operations in Somaliland in 2011, with support from its stable government. Unlike Somalia, Somaliland has no history of fishing outside the small coastal city of Berbera. But seven years after Gullestrup’s decision, Fair Fishing isn’t alone. The self-declared state that isn’t recognized as an independent entity internationally is emerging as the unlikely home of a fishing industry that’s generating jobs, drawing back Somalilanders who had left for other countries, empowering women and changing diets. [READ MORE]( 3 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [The ‘Bacon Tree’ Eating Carbon in the Eastern Cape]( This carbon-eating succulent can help transform huge swaths of land from brown to green. On a recent trip to the 630-square-mile Addo Elephant National Park, dense thickets of spekboom (a fleshy shrub with purple stalks and leaves like bloated ticks) made it hard to spot the elephants, lions and rhinos that call this slice of paradise home. Driving home from the park, however, I passed through mile upon mile of yellowed grassland dotted with sheep and goats. Not realizing it then, my drive was actually a form of time travel. Only 100 years ago, spekboom thickets covered a Connecticut-size swath of Eastern South Africa. And ecologist Anthony Mills is hellbent on turning back the clock. If successful, his mass planting project could capture 750 million metric tons of CO2 — enough to offset Germany’s annual carbon emissions and still be able to leave a tip. [READ MORE]( 4 [Good Sh*t]( [The Unlikely Home of a Thriving Serval Population]( These near-threatened cats found a way to survive at the world’s largest coal liquefaction plant. 5 [Good Sh*t]( [Our 10 Must-Read Stories — the OZY Highlight Reel]( From a marathon mom to curly hair fixes, here’s the best of OZY this week. 6 [The New + the Next]( [How a Tennis Racket for Hair Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business]( Entrepreneur Noel Durity is a grinder on a mission — to get your hair in shape easily. 7 [The New + the Next]( [Can This Ultra-Orthodox Mother of Five Run All the Way to the Olympics?]( Beatie Deutsch first went on a fun run to stay in shape four years ago. Now she's a marathon champion and Olympic hopeful. 8 [The New + the Next]( [How Immigrants Are Shaping the Future of Ireland’s Gaelic Sports]( For centuries the preserve of native Irish people, Gaelic football and hurling now have a new, multicultural face. 9 [True Stories]( [A Breast Cancer Survivor’s Survival Guide? Start With Air Guitar]( You get a diagnosis of deadly consequence and the next move is all yours. Even if it includes playing invisible instruments. 10 [Around the World]( [Climate Change Is Already Claiming the Alps]( Warming hits some environments faster than others — and that could be catastrophic for central Europe. You Should Know This [Take OZY’s Annual Survey!]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](