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Just Enough: Fishing for Happiness in Southern Thailand

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?
by × August 12, 2012 × 4 comments

Ecosystems, Forests

Perspectives from the People’s Land: If the Caribou Help Us

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?
by × August 8, 2012 × 1 comment

Climate, Ecosystems, Indigenous Peoples, Oceans

Workers split the latest harvest and attach half of it to new strands, effectively doubling the farmer’s crop.

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.
by × August 7, 2012 × 0 comments

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Wager for Rain

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?
by × August 6, 2012 × 2 comments

Energy, Solar, Wind

Alisa May

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.
by × July 30, 2012 × 0 comments

Ecosystems, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples, Out West

Talking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier

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.
by × July 24, 2012 × 1 comment