After decades of losing coastline, Native Americans look to a young chief to help them find a place in the future. Original published by Harvard Public Health and the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Photos by Edmund D. Fountain. DEVON PARFAIT STEERS HIS TRUCK into the parking lot of what used to be a firehouse on […]
Changing a River’s Course
A new movement wants to establish that the Haw River has its own independent, inalienable rights. It’s a long shot, but organizers hope it can change the framing of environmental protection. Originally published in The Assembly. Photos by Roderico Díaz. As a child in the 1980s, Crystal Cavalier-Keck spent summer days inside her grandmother’s classroom […]
Stress test
New research tools help scientists measure stress in wildlife before their populations plummet. Originally published in National Wildlife JUST BEFORE SUNRISE, LOUIS HUNNINCK woke up at a research center in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. He climbed into an off-road vehicle, joined by an assistant, and rode through the scrubby equatorial landscape until they saw a group […]
Stories from National Wildlife
By My Name (on animals that call one another by name)> Bayou Bandleader (on musician and naturalist Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes) Two of a Kind (on same-sex behavior) Stress Test (on measuring stress hormones in conservation research) Room to Roam? (on wildlife during the pandemic) Hope Rising (on the Endangered Species Act) Going the Distance (on […]
Cumulative Impacts
Originally published in the Border Belt Independent, May 2022. LAST WINTER, AS THE N.C. DEPARTMENT of Environmental Quality (DEQ) considered a new permit for a Robeson County plant that generates electricity by burning poultry waste and wood, it turned to the public for comment. The earful it received was mighty and unanimous. The facility, owned […]
Birds of a Feather
Avian DNA holds secrets that reveal where birds migrate and their resilience to climate change. The Bird Genoscape Project aims to unlock them. Originally published in Audubon. Photos by Noppadol Paothong. A BURST OF WHISTLES PIERCED THE FOGGY morning in the Missouri Ozarks. It came from Marina Rodriguez’s Bluetooth speaker but sounded enough like a […]
Coverage of North Carolina hog industry
Chronological order, oldest to newest. The Vanishing Act (Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019) After years of burying complaints about hog-farm pollution, North Carolina officials began posting them online. What changed? (Also published in The Guardian and McClatchy North Carolina papers.) Raising a Stink (Food & Environment Reporting Network, December 2019) Rural North Carolinians sued the world’s largest hog producer over […]
The Contested Swamps of Robeson County
A behemoth natural-gas facility, sitting atop a disrupted archeological site, represents the latest environmental challenge for one of the state’s most diverse yet burdened counties. But the debate over history, benefit, and protection is far more complicated than it first appears. Originally published in The Assembly. Photos by Roderico Díaz. Wakulla, North Carolina is an […]
Room to Roam?
The pandemic has offered scientists an opportunity to study how slowdowns in human activity impact wildlife. Originally published in National Wildlife. Click here for a PDF of the magazine pages. WHEN THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS first caged us into our homes, some of the sweetest relief came from images of wildlife taking over our streets. The internet […]
Hope Rising
The hard work of humans—and nature’s resilience—can help even the most endangered species climb back from the abyss. Originally published in National Wildlife. For a PDF of the magazine pages, click here. LAST DECEMBER BROUGHT A RARE FLASH of celebratory news: The Guam rail, a ground-nesting bird from the United States’ westernmost territory, came off a global […]
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