Penan continue blockade

Stroll through a local farmers’ market these days and you may happen to come upon some unfamiliar produce: bell peppers shaped like miniature, wrinkled pumpkins. White squash and scalloped-edged mel...

Dolphin-safe tuna has less mercury IMMP, which has pioneered efforts for the “Dolphin Safe” tuna label for more than two decades, recently hailed a new study regarding mercury in canned tuna. “W...

I finally got around to seeing An Inconvenient Truth before press time. If you, like me, have been telling yourself you don’t need to see it because you know all that stuff already, go see it anyway...

In 1994 my wife Becky and I drove a long, dusty road through the Sonoran Desert, to a spring-fed pond fringed with tules and cottonwoods. It was January, and so the air was cool, a mere 80 degrees or ...

EcoVillage Farm Learning Center hosted the 14th Annual Middle College High School Consortium Student Leadership Conference on Saturday, April 29, 2006. The theme of “Corporate Responsibility to the ...

Ed Schilling “American cars and pickup trucks are responsible for nearly half of the greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles globally, even though the nation’s vehicles make up just 30 percent of ...

Cetacean correction I appreciated Mark Palmer’s piece “Remembering Maxine McCloskey”, which a friend forwarded to me here in Jerusalem. However, the Whale Bus started as a project of Project Jon...

An environmentalist’s vision in ashes

AFRICA West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct While its cousins are slowly recovering, the West African black rhino is feared to be extinct. Last seen in northern Cameroon, there has been no sign of ...

Prescriptions for the heathcare industry's ills

Nigeria – the engine room of Africa

Immigration policy sacrifices Arizona’s wilderness

Karen Gosling

Sudan's environment

David Brower understood that although it’s important to dream, it’s even more important to act on those dreams. He dedicated his life to creating change not just through activism, but also by enga...

While the Chernobyl disaster has faded into history in the minds of Westerners, it still looms large over the people of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the for...