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Hope Rising

by Barry Yeoman on June 1, 2020

Click here for a PDF of “Hope Rising,” National Wildlife, June 2020.

How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

by Barry Yeoman on May 12, 2020

Click here for “How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic,” Southerly, May 2020.

As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put

by Barry Yeoman on April 13, 2020

Click here for “As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put,” onEarth, April 2020.

Hog-farm stories

by Barry Yeoman on December 20, 2019

My recent reporting on industrial hog farms in North Carolina: “For years, complaints about North Carolina’s hog pollution vanished in state bureaucracy,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019. (Also published in The Guardian and McClatchy North Carolina papers.) “Here are the rural residents who sued the world’s largest hog producer over waste and odors—and […]

Going the Distance

by Barry Yeoman on October 8, 2019

Please click here to be directed to the PDF of “Going the Distance,” National Wildlife, October 2019.

The Vanishing Act

by Barry Yeoman on August 27, 2019

Please click here to be directed to “For years, complaints about North Carolina’s hog pollution vanished in state bureaucracy,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019. You will be taken to FERN’s web site.

A Plague of Plastics

by Barry Yeoman on June 1, 2019

From the Arctic to Antarctica, ocean debris is killing marine wildlife—but we still have the power to stop plastic pollution. Originally published by National Wildlife. MARCUS ERIKSEN WAS SITTING IN A FOXHOLE in Kuwait in 1991 when he hatched a plan that guided the rest of his life. Hunkered down in the sand, surrounded by burning […]

Is the World Bank Group Above the Law?

by Barry Yeoman on October 22, 2018

A fishing community in India challenges the bank’s private-lending arm in the U.S. Supreme Court. Originally published in The Nation. THE U.S.SUPREME COURT SITS ABOUT 8,000 miles from Tragadi Bandar, the patch of India’s west coast where Budha Ismail Jam has spent most of the past two decades fishing for a living. Jam’s seasonal home, […]

Shutdown

by Barry Yeoman on January 1, 2018

Click here for “Shutdown,” Carolina Alumni Review, January-February 2018 issue. Opens as a PDF.

Going Native

by Barry Yeoman on March 27, 2017

Exotic garden plants can wreak unexpected havoc with indigenous species and ecosystems. Originally published in National Wildlife. AMONG THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, few are as elegant as cedar waxwings, with their black costume-ball masks and yellow tail tips. “Whoever once gets within a good view of them and notes the exquisite coloring of the […]

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