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Fed Up: Cultivating Elk and Acrimony in Wyoming
Every winter, the state of Wyoming feeds thousands of wild elk to protect the animals against starvation. But are the feedgrounds keeping the herds alive, or dooming them –– and tearing apart human communities in the process?
Just Enough: Fishing for Happiness in Southern Thailand
In a remote corner of Thailand, a Muslim community draws both sustenance and meaning from the sea. Will overfishing and societal pressures cost the people of Dato their livelihoods?
Perspectives from the People’s Land: If the Caribou Help Us
Can protecting endangered caribou in Quebec help preserve the Cree’s way of life?
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.
Wager for Rain
For decades, Southwestern scientists have tried to engineer their way out of a chronic water problem. Are their best solutions any less an act of prayer than a rain dance?
If You Love Your Electrons, Set Them Free
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in transmission.
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.
Perspectives from the People’s Land: When the Cree Say No
Ed. note: This is the third installment in Perspectives from the People’s Land, Naomi Heindel’s blog about her summer research in James Bay, Quebec. Follow the links to check out Part 1 and Part 2. What does it mean when a Cree steward, or tallyman, says “no” to proposed development? “Sometimes there’s something very large behind that two-letter word,” explains […]
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.
Climate and the Coast: The Frontlines of Poverty
Editor’s note: This post is the second installment of Climate and the Coast, Angela Whitney’s summer blog about her research on fishing communities in the Philippines. Click here to read the first entry. he baby’s head is so swollen that her eyes are forced back into her head. Flies swarm over her when they remove the mesh covering her prostrate […]
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?