Climate and the Coast: The Seaweed in Your Sandals
You've probably eaten seaweed, used it for walking, or taken it along with your morning vitamins.
Human Landscape
Ecosystems, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples, Out West
Talking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier
After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I'm working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
Actions, Activism, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples
Conga No Va: Peruvians Die in Gold Mine Protests
Protests against a planned gold mine in Cajamarca, Peru, turned violent last week, resulting in five deaths. The conflict pits American mining giant Newmont against locals who claim that the mine will poison their water and destroy their livelihoods. FES' own Vrinda Manglik was in Peru to witness the protests.
Human Landscape, Public Health
Will Nanotubes Create an Environmental Health Crisis?
Carbon nanotubes are among the most extraordinary materials ever constructed, capable of revolutionizing industries from solar energy to space travel. But for all their futuristic promise, nanotubes pose a grave environmental health threat, and have been linked to lung cancer. Will nanotubes change the world for better, or for worse?
Ecosystems, Forests, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples
Perspectives from the People’s Land: First Nations, Forestry, and Ferocious Flies
Have you ever been in northern Quebec in bug season?
Black flies, horse flies, deer flies, moose flies, then a fifteen minute “bug window” – usually just before dusk, during the changing of the guard – followed by mosquitoes and …