"Hillary Clinton got her biggest applause of the night during Sunday's Democratic presidential debate when she accused Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder of not caring about poor African-Americans drinking contaminated water."
In April of 1963, Charles Wurster anda small group of fellow scientists decidedthey would monitor a planned DDTspraying in Hanover, N.H. They hadn’tread Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” published the year before; norhad they looked at much of the scientific literature.“We were unbiased and empty-headed,” Wurster recalls in acompelling new memoir, “DDT Wars,” about the early days of theEnvironmental Defense Fund and the fight to ban most uses of persistentorganic pollutants such as DDT.With a Ph.D.
Rarely does a writer get so deeply into the heart of his or her subject while also avoiding the pitfalls of sentimentality. So began the judges’ comments for “Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island,” winner of SEJ’s 2015 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. The book’s author, Will Harlan, spent 19 years developing a bold, unflinching portrayal of Cumberland Island, Ga.’s most ardent defender, the brilliant-yet-eccentric Carol Ruckdeschel. For the latest edition of SEJournal’s Between the Lines author Q & A, Harlan spoke with our book editor, Tom Henry.
Journalist and author Angela Posada-Swafford shares the ups and downs of her two-decades-long (so far) freelance life based in Florida.
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"At a hatchery on the Klamath River, biologists are using genetic techniques to reduce inbreeding, though some argue natural methods are more effective."
