Cultured VulturesIndia – Comparing the achievement to the explosion of India’s first nuclear bomb, scientists at the Guru Ghasidas University announced that they had introduced genetically...

Ethics in politics can work wonders. Case in point: Senator Jim Jeffords, whose principles and courage triggered a political role reversal in Washington. Jeffords’ environmental commitment is si...

More Airplanes, More Airports, More Delays and More Pollution

ECO-Tourist Journal

Bluewater Network

International Marine Mammal Project Zurich – On April 4, the Working Group for the Protection of Marine Mammals-Switzerland (ASMS) and Earth Island Institute joined forces with Switzerland&rs...

Organizers of the Summit of the Americas in Quebec offered the world’s biggest multinationals the opportunity to make private “welcoming remarks” to George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Mi...

Goldman Foundation

Last October, in a replay of its role in killing a treaty designed to control global warming, the US turned its back on the world community and drove a stake through attempts to finalize the Internati...

In the spring issue, IMMP reported that “Japan’s National Fisheries Agency sent officials to [the towns of] Futo and Taiji to warn local fishers to beware of activists taking pictures.R...

Borneo Project News Report

Bluewater Network Cruise Ship PollutionAt the beginning of this year, representatives from six California state agencies were selected to form a Cruise Ship Environmental Task Force to investigate ...

EII in the News

Nature’s Power, Enron and Native Lands

St. Lucia – Eastern Caribbean islands are killing whales and dolphins in numbers that represent one of the largest officially recorded intentional cetacean kills in North and South America. T...

A Canadian Farmer Resists Genetic Pollution

Climate Solutions Today rural America is in trouble. Low crop prices are squeezing families off the land and farm populations are declining to unprecedented lows. Many small towns have trouble main...

International Marine Mammal Project At long last, the public got its turn to question the US Navy’s proposal to deploy one of the loudest man-made noisemakers into the world’s oceans to...

Clean Air WinsIn a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled (Whitman vs. American Trucking) that the EPA can set clean-air standards based on public health alone and need not take economic consid...

Globalization versus the First Amendment

The West Pacific gray whale, once believed extinct, now clings to life in Siberia’s Sea of Okhotsk. A major US-Russia oil project in the waters off Sakhalin Island now threatens the whale’...

Reverend Fred Small was arrested at the Department of Energy building after delivering the following homily during the Prayer & Witness for the Earth demonstration in Washington, DC, held on May 3...

Circle of Life Foundation Luna, the ancient redwood where environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill lived for more than two years, has survived an illegal chainsaw cut that was discovered last fa...

An Open Letter to UN Secretary Kofi Annan

Joe Harding was one of many workers exposed to radiation at Union Carbide’s uranium-processing plant in Paducah, Kentucky. “I spent all those years breathing uranium hexafluoride gas that ...

DOE Plans to Burn Radioactive Fields at US Nuclear Sites

Group of 100Opposing Mexico City’s new airport may ruffle some feathers, but it will save thousands of migratory birds. Mexico City’s proposed new airport would destroy Lake Texcoco, on...

Bay Area Wilderness Training Imagine waking up at 6 a.m. every morning, knowing you have thousands of miles to hike until reaching your destination. In contrast to mountain climbing, hiking the 2,6...

The Ukraine Health Ministry claims that 125,000 Ukrainians have died from diseases related to the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion. Troubling new reports reveal that the nuclear power accide...

This airport is inclined to reduce pollution

Mad Cow Disease is Killing Europe’s Pets

A recent GenerAsians survey asked 5,700 Asia-Pacific youngsters in nine different countries to name their favorite food and drink. Their answers tell a disturbing story: Australia: McDonald’s...

Bay Area Wilderness Training The PCT ranges in elevation from just above sea level along the Columbia River in Washington to 13,180 feet atop Forester Pass in central California.Between the extreme...

Italy – Fearing that their increased incidents of leukemia were caused by exposure"to "electrosmog" (powerful radio waves), residents of a Rome neighborhood appealed to Italy&rsqu...

Bush’s war against information

Nuclear Power is Neither ‘Cheap’ nor ‘Clean’

Eleven years ago, a car bomb nearly killed two Earth First activists. Darryl Cherney was temporarily deafened and partially blinded. Judi Bari was severely injured when the bomb detonated directly ben...

Federal Communications Commission Chair Michael Powell (his father is “Secretary of State” Colin Powell) wants to eliminate the anti-monopoly restrictions that currently prevent media cong...

Tibetan Plateau Project In mid-April, Earth Island Institute, acting on behalf of the Tibetan Plateau Project (TPP), joined in filing one of the first Endangered Species Act lawsuits against the Bu...

“Slanderous” CoverIf you people are going to be slandering our president on the cover of your tree-hugger magazine, I do not care to receive it. I’m sick and tired of you imbicile [s...

A solar-box cooker is a great way to feed a family. But if you want to feed the entire community, it takes a Villager Sun Oven [39 W 835 Midan Drive, Elburn, IL 60119, (630) 208-7273, http://www.sunov...

‘Free Trade’ versus Culture and Democracy

Ethical Consumer

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University [http://www.brennancenter.org] focuses on campaign finance reform. Institute for Public Accuracy [http://www.accuracy.org] Project Censored [htt...

International Marine Mammal Project The 1993 hit movie Free Willy and its two sequels raised international concerns about the cruel practice of keeping marine mammals captive for human entertainmen...

“On the evidence of its environmental policies to date [the Bush] administration is not merely pro-business: it actually appears to hold a grudge against the natural world.” —The Guardian, L...