Love bugs
We asked readers to submit memories and reflections about what fireflies and cicadas mean to you. Here are some of them:
We’re partnering with Enlace Latino NC to cover economy, environment in rural Latinx communities
Victoria Bouloubasis will cover the intersection of environmental issues and economic mobility in Latinx, immigrant, and refugee communities in North Carolina.
‘The culture manifests the landscape’: A Q&A with Southern writer Janisse Ray
The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood author talks the pandemic, climate change, and why we need to fall in love with our places.
‘Absolutely discriminatory’: Access to federal agriculture resources lacking in Indian Country
The Longs are multigenerational Indigenous farmers in the South. Like most farmers, they need on-the-ground support from extension agents.
Appalachia is transitioning from coal. Here’s what it could learn from Germany.
Lessons from environmental and economic restoration efforts in the Ruhr Valley could help usher Appalachia into a new era.
Climate change is threatening historic African American sites in the South
Nonprofits and volunteers are working to preserve African American cultural and historic sites vulnerable to flooding and other environmental threats.
‘If we don’t burn it, nature will’: Georgia blazes old fears, leads nation in prescribed fire
In the face of more intense and frequent wildfires, federal land managers consider adopting burning practices the Southeast has been successfully using for decades.