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

by Barry Yeoman on May 12, 2020

The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw have long practiced self-isolation and sustainable food production, which they hope will help keep their number of COVID-19 cases low. Originally published in Southerly. WHEN THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK FIRST REACHED Louisiana and residents were ordered to stay at home, Marie Marlene V. Foret tapped into some of the skills […]

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

by Barry Yeoman on April 13, 2020

They survived the BP oil disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and decades of industry spoiling their wetlands. Whatever their future holds, the people of Grand Bayou want to decide it for themselves. Originally published in onEarth. TEN YEARS AGO, AS NEWS OF THE BP oil disaster reached Louisiana’s Grand Bayou Indian Village, Rosina Philippe dispatched her brother Maurice Phillips […]

Going the Distance

by Barry Yeoman on October 1, 2019

Aided by new technology, scientists gain insight into long-distance bird migrations—and explore a growing list of threats the animals face along the way. Originally published in National Wildlife. For a PDF of the page layout, click here. JUST BEFORE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS blew into Turkey’s Aras River Valley on a humid day in 2014, Joshua Horns held a great […]

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 in 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, […]

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 […]

Reclaiming Native Ground

by Barry Yeoman on February 9, 2017

Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise? Originally published by The Lens and the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Click here for the companion episode of the Southern Foodway Alliance’s Gravy podcast. WHEN THERESA DARDAR WAS GROWING UP in Houma, her mother used to take her to visit relatives in the Pointe-au-Chien Indian […]

Republican National Convention, Day 1: “There Will Be an End to the Earth”

by Barry Yeoman on July 18, 2016

Originally published in Indy Week. ON THE EVE OF THE REPUBLICAN National Convention, the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee threw a welcoming party for several thousand delegates and guests. It was held at the North Coast Harbor, a recreation area—closed to the public for the evening and heavily secured—between downtown and Lake Erie. The Rock and Roll Hall […]

The Gulf War

by Barry Yeoman on June 1, 2016

Click here for “The Gulf War,” published by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, June 2016. Alternately, click here for the shorter, newsier Texas Monthly version.

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