6th September 2010

What's Killing the Babies of Kettleman City?

How a small-town mystery could change the way we look at pollution.

31st August 2010

Eleven Lives

The oil will have stopped gushing into the Gulf. The shoreline and the estuaries and the beaches will have been scrubbed clean by man and nature. BP and Transocean will have resumed business as usual. But the original wound will never heal. This is the story of what’s been lost.

30th August 2010

Urban Legends

Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.

11th August 2010

The BP Cover-Up

BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.

22nd July 2010

Scenes from the Violent Twilight Oil

It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.

15th July 2010

The Hunted

Did American conservationists in Africa go too far?

14th July 2010

The Hunters

I’m not writing to offer an apologia, but I have to say, life in the oilfield was wonderful.

26th June 2010

Tuna’s End

What was in the water that day was a congregation of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a fish that when prepared as sushi is one of the most valuable forms of seafood in the world. It’s also a fish that regularly journeys between America and Europe and whose two populations, or “stocks,” have both been catastrophically overexploited. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one of only two known Atlantic bluefin spawning grounds, has only intensified the crisis.

16th June 2010

Boom

Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them.

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