By Kahrin Deines/Medill - Smith Island, MD
Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place.
Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor. Between breaths and pauses to call for ‘Amens,’ his […]
Awakening to Sea Level Rise
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Chesapeake Bay, climate change, global warming, Maryland, sea level rise, Smith Island
What happens in Alaska, won’t stay in Alaska
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
By Angela Nitzke/Medill
Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago. Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer modeled prediction. […]
Tags: · Alaska, Anchorage, Arctic, Begich, climate change, glacier, global warming, ice, marine mammal, polar bear, sea, Stevens
King Coal and the Mother Teresa of rural Appalachia
July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
(Photos by Frank Carlson)
Wildflowers grow along state route TN-90 in the Cumberland Mountains near the community of Eagan, Tenn.
By Frank Carlson, Medill
So we’re halfway through our week of reporting on the history and impact of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility and arguably the original “green collar” developer. And one theme that […]
Tags: · Appalachia, Barack Obama, claiborne county, climate change, coal, cumberland mountains clearfork community institute, deep mining, eagan, East Tennessee, fossil fuels, gas, Iraq, John McCain, Marie Cirillo, Mother Teresa, oil, religion, strip mining, Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA
