Industry
How Can a Jellyfish This Slow Be So Deadly? It's Invisible
One of the world's most devastating predators is brainless, slow and voracious
September 2012 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush
Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin
February 2012 |
By Donovan Webster
Cleveland’s Signs of Renewal
Returning to his native Ohio, author Charles Michener marvels at the city’s ability to reinvent itself
April 2011 |
By Charles Michener
For German Butchers, a Wurst Case Scenario
As Germans turn to American-style supermarkets, the local butcher—a fixture in their sausage-happy culture—is packing it in
January 2010 |
By Andrew D. Blechman
Stopping Sharks by Blasting Their Senses
Chemist and businessman Eric Stroud develops shark repellents to protect sharks from being ensnared in commercial fisheries
July 17, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Geoducks: Happy as Clams
In the Pacific Northwest, fishermen are cashing in on the growing yen for geoducks, a funny-looking mollusk turned worldwide delicacy
March 2009 |
By Craig Welch
Converting Energy Waste into Electricity and Heat
Energy recycling wiz Tom Casten explains how to capture power that goes up in smoke
February 27, 2009 |
By Bruce Hathaway
Mining the Mountains
Explosives and giant machines are destroying Appalachian peaks to obtain coal. In a tiny West Virginia town, residents and the industry fight over a mountain's fate
January 2009 |
By John McQuaid
Colombia Dispatch 8: The Tagua Industry
Sometimes called "vegetable ivory," tagua is a white nut that grows in Colombia that is making a comeback as a commodity worth harvesting
October 29, 2008 |
By Kenneth Fletcher
On California's Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon
For the first time there's no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.
October 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue
For the Yup'ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world
October 01, 2008 |
By Kim O’Donnel
Spin Cycle
Silkworm farming, or sericulture, was a backbreaking job that often required the participation of entire families
July 2008 |
By Peter Ross Range
On the Job
A lobsterman in Maine talks about the lure of working on the water
January 17, 2008 |
By Siobhan Roth
Fishy Business
The problems with fishery management are mounting—and time may be running out
September 24, 2007 |
By Anne Sasso
Going "Bycatch Neutral"
Can fisheries eliminate their debts to nature?
September 24, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Kiwi Ingenuity
A fleet of inventions aims to protect albatrosses from harm
September 2007 |
By Kennedy Warne
Corn Plastic to the Rescue
Wal-Mart and others are going green with "biodegradable" packaging made from corn. But is this really the answer to America's throwaway culture?
August 2006 |
By Elizabeth Royte
Hell's Bells
The 19th-century trolley bell may have ding-ding-dinged, but the factory bell clanged the workday
May 2002 |
By Kim Roberts
Fire and Brimstone
A long-outdated approach to sulfur mining sends hundreds of Javanese workers deep into the crater of an active volcano
December 2001 |
By John F. Ross
