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Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan. Photo by Eleonora Albasi on Unsplash.
This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This report also was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, War and Peace and weed. Sometimes reading, sometimes just lying on her back looking up through the green, Lydick felt like she could be anywhere. Thailand, maybe, or Malaysia. It’s said that in rural parts of Japan, parents tell their children, If you feel an earthquake, run into the bamboo. Its roots will hold the earth together for you. Lydick felt that sense of protection somehow, even though she lived in Imperial County, California,
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This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a
Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket,
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New Sabah Times printing press-cum-editorial office.
IT NEVER crossed my mind to write this Special Report in the Daily Express. Last week, Editor-in-Chief, James Sarda, approached me and said: “Can you write something on Sabah Times – since you once worked there for many years?”
But obviously, what triggered this unusual story idea had to be a profoundly sad end of Sabah Times – Sabah’s first English daily closing for good on Dec 31, 2020 – 66 years after it was first founded by the late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu who was also the founder of Daily Express in 1963.