Grand Folly
Industrial tourism has been a disaster for the Grand Canyon. It could get much worse.
By Christopher Ketcham
L.A. Underground
Environmental activists are trying to tear the veil away from Los Angeles’s vast oil infrastructure.
By James William Gibson
Unconventional Agriculture
Our food systems are changing thanks to a rising crop of women farmers.
By Sena Christian
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Oil Can’t Compete With Renewables, Says National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Returns on fossil fuel investments aren’t keeping up with solar and wind, and are less likely to do so in the future, says bank report
You wouldn’t expect a bank in the oil-rich Middle East to be touting the future of renewable energy over that of oil. But that’s just what the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) is doing with its new report, “Financing the Future of…
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Climate Change Poses Serious Threats to Food Distribution
The risks of a highly centralized food system
By now there has been a steady stream of news about climate change’s impacts on food production. Heat waves, drought, and wildfire are damaging harvests in California, Australia and Brazil. Warming and acidifying oceans threaten seafood stocks. Rising temperatures are causing declines…
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A Journey to “The Place Where Life Begins”
A photo essay from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Last summer three friends and I had the rare opportunity to immerse ourselves in the rugged wilderness of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are no roads in the refuge, and very few people visit this “the Last Frontier.” Most visitors fly…
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Nature in the City
In Chicagoland, a quiet rewilding is underway
A cougar prowls wooded ravines in a wealthy community, searching for a mate. A coyote slinks through a human-built landscape on its way to its den outside one of the country’s largest football stadiums. Out in the chain of lakes, a recreational…
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China Imposes One-Year Ban on Ivory Imports Following Mounting Criticism
Wildlife advocates hopeful, but say more needs to be done to save African elephants from being poached to extinction
A bit of positive news to end this week with: Yesterday, China imposed a one-year ban on ivory imports. From the Associated Press: "The State Administration of Forestry declared the ban in a public notice posted on its official site, in which…
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Heard about the FBI Tracking of Keystone XL Activists? It’s Worse than You Thought.
The energy industry is now firmly hitched to the national security state.
This is a sneak peak from our forthcoming Spring edition. If you value dogged reporting like this, please become a subscriber today. In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices…
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Engineering Students Devise System to Track Ghost Fishing Nets
Invention could help save hundreds of marine animals that get entangled and killed by abandoned fishing nets every year
When fishermen lose control of a fishing net or abandon a torn net at sea, the nets float around on the water surface or deep within the sea, ensnaring and killing millions of fish and marine mammals every year. Poetically called “ghost…
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