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Actions, Activism, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples
Conga No Va: Peruvians Die in Gold Mine Protests
Protests against a planned gold mine in Cajamarca, Peru, turned violent last week, resulting in five deaths. The conflict pits American mining giant Newmont against locals who claim that the mine will poison their water and destroy their livelihoods. FES' own Vrinda Manglik was in Peru to witness the protests.
Climate
Climate and the Coast: The Frontlines of Poverty
Editor’s note: This post is the second installment of Climate and the Coast, Angela Whitney’s summer blog about her research on fishing communities in the Philippines. Click here to read the first entry.
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Human Landscape, Public Health
Will Nanotubes Create an Environmental Health Crisis?
Carbon nanotubes are among the most extraordinary materials ever constructed, capable of revolutionizing industries from solar energy to space travel. But for all their futuristic promise, nanotubes pose a grave environmental health threat, and have been linked to lung cancer. Will nanotubes change the world for better, or for worse?
Climate, Culture
Climate and the Coast: Learning to Love Filipino Culture
Maybe it was the first time I rode on a sakayan, a handmade pontoon boat; or perhaps it was when I sat down to hire my research assistant; or possibly it happened when I first saw bags of live, brightly …
Ecosystems, Forests, Human Landscape, Indigenous Peoples
Perspectives from the People’s Land: First Nations, Forestry, and Ferocious Flies
Have you ever been in northern Quebec in bug season?
Black flies, horse flies, deer flies, moose flies, then a fifteen minute “bug window” – usually just before dusk, during the changing of the guard – followed by mosquitoes and …