January/February 2011

2011 January/February

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Oil Barrels, 2008
Feature

Beyond Oil in 20 Years

Here's how to get there

By Paul Rauber

January 27, 2011

Chuck Schwartz in his office in Bozeman, Montana. The bear skulls in the background came from as far away as Russia and Africa. | Photo by Moe Witschard
Feature

Everybody Hates Chuck Schwartz

The head of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team is just a scientist trying to do his job (probably).

By Brian Kevin

January 22, 2011

A mother paddles her children down the Sepon River in a canoe made from fuel tanks dropped by bombers during the Vietnam War. Laotians have incorporated scrap metal from U.S. bombs into their daily lives, but unexploded ordnance remains one of the country
Feature

Life After Wartime

Laotians live and die among 80 million unexploded munitions, many of them as dangerous as the day they dropped from the sky

By Karen J. Coates

January 6, 2011