NGOs shut, out, Colin Powell is booed offstage, and a mediocre time is had by all

It’s Earth Island’s 20th anniversary, and our annual Party for the Planet takes on a special significance. The party will take place at San Francisco’s historic Avalon Ballroom on F...

Creating Choice for Consumers

Our burgeoning network of towers for mobile phones, pagers, and digital television kills millions of migratory birds a year – and prevention may be as simple as changing a lightbulb

City Talk Paya visit to a developing country – previously known as “third world” or“underdeveloped.” During the last two years I have spent time inUganda, which fits that definition. I’d call...

MostAmericans know little if anything about a massive food experimentalready underway in our nation’s fields and grocery stores. Alreadythousands of products, including many of the best-known brand n...

The article Stolen Skies: The Chemtrail Mystery (EIJ,Summer 2002), contained many inaccuracies which deserve correction.Beginning with the subtitle, “Jet Trails in the Sky Used to Disappear;Now ...

Brower Youth Awards Sixoutstanding environmental and community leaders from across the UnitedStates have been named recipients of the 2002 Brower Youth Awards, thenation’s most prestigious recogni...

9-11 Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, 2001 $8.95 ($13.50 Canadian) Few commenters on American political life are more astute than Noam Chomsky, famously referred to by the New York T...

Borneo Project Arecent wave of logging activity in Sarawak’s interior has spurred a newseries of protests by the Penan, Borneo’s most isolated tribe. SinceMarch, the Penan have erected nine spont...

George Bush’s nuclear waste transport and disposal plan puts millions of Americans at risk.

Keiko hunts on his own

The world’s largest living reptile may go extinct so that we can eat swordfish.

Baikal Watch Thereare few places left on Earth like Lake Baikal. In Soviet times it wasthe most popular summer tourist destination. These days, it’s alittle-known getaway spot that adventure trave...

AFRICAForests of the CongoJohannesburg — The world’s five richest countries, plus the World Bank, international conservation groups and mega-logging companies have pledged to spend up to...

Their island nation on the verge of disappearing due to sea level rise, citizens of Tuvalu prepare for repatriation.

Thought for Food: A look at genetically-modified crops, served with a helping of Greenpeace’s True Food Now Shopping list

Energy exploration may push Yellowstone’s charismatic megafauna over the edge

Nate Walker paints to celebrate the natural world’s beauty, and to provoke thought and action in its defense

Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature by Martin Teitel, Ph.D, and Kimberly A. Wilson, 206 pages, paperback A gripping account of the environmental, social, politi...