Barry Yeoman
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Yeoman, who specializes in in-depth reporting, is a longtime contributor to onEarth. He has also written about Southern chicken farmers, brain-injured athletes, women veterans, an American strategist for the Iraqi resistance, controversial sex researchers, salmon fishermen, and anti-fracking rebels for various publications. His work has appeared in Parade, The American Prospect, O, Saturday Evening Post, Discover, New York Times, AARP The Magazine, Mother Jones, Audubon, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Psychology Today, Salon, and Good Housekeeping, among other publications.
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As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put
DispatchLouisianaBarry Yeoman
They survived the BP oil disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and decades of industry spoiling their wetlands. Whatever their future holds, the people of Grand Bayou want to decide it for themselves.
‘Nowhere to Go but Up’
DispatchMidwestBarry Yeoman
Don’t blame the recent flooding along the Mississippi River on the rain. We created this mess.
Life on the Mississippi, Now
DispatchMissouri, Illinois, MidwestBarry Yeoman
We've spent billions of dollars on dikes, locks, and levees in a vain attempt to subdue what Mark Twain called "that lawless stream." Is it time to let the river have its way?