natural resources
Meet the 'Water Witcher' Who Is Helping California Farmers Deal with Drought
California's severe drought is making desperate farmers creative. Many are seeking help from water witches or "dowsers"—people who use tree branches to tap into energy fields below the surface of the land—to locate groundwater. I spoke with one to see...
Meet the 'Water Witcher' Who Is Helping California Farmers Deal with Drought
California's severe drought is making desperate farmers creative. Many are seeking help from water witches or "dowsers"—people who use tree branches to tap into energy fields below the surface of the land—to locate groundwater. I spoke with one to see...
Russia, Canada, and China Are Fighting for Control of the Arctic
There's a lot of potential money to be made in the Far North as the ice caps melt and expose shipping routes and natural resources. Russia, the US, and China all want a piece of the action. Can Canada compete with those global powers?
Wyoming's Lithium Jackpot Will Help Us Build the Batteries of the Future
Scientists have discovered a single lithium deposit that could meet the entire nation's annual demand.
In Which Big Game and Eugenics Go To Washington: or, Environmentalism Is Born (Part One)
In the aftermath of a rollicking dinner party in 1887, Teddy Roosevelt and his friends decided to start a club. It would be devoted to their shared passions: the thrill of the chase, pitting nature against human daring and ingenuity – a club for big...
Americans Aren't Sustainable and Feel Great About It
Take my pop quiz about crushing environmental guilt: a) One nation burns more coal per capita than any other in the world, drives massive gas-guzzling cars, scoffs at public transit, buys piles and piles of useless consumer goods, and is even...
The Battle Of Lazy Dog Hill
In the air was a sound Ken Ely had become all too familiar with over the past year: the dull rumble of truck tires on the old two-lane that ran past the bottom of his 183 acres of bluestone and timber in this remote corner of northern Pennsylvania.