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The year we lost the deserts
It is a bright July day in the Mojave Desert, and the temperature hovers around 105°F. I have driven this stretch of dirt road more times than I can count, but today the Park Service has closed it to...
Chris Clarke
Borneo Project
Indigenous victory overturned
Jessica Lawrence
The beating heart of the estuary
Demand for fish oil puts the Chesapeake under increasing pressure.
Dick Russell
Six reasons we lost New Orleans
Surging
seas and vicious winds whipping through coastal Louisiana, Mississippi,
and Alabama weren’t the only causes of the enormous damage left behind
after Hurricane Katrina. Human-made changes...
Carrie Black
Fire and ice
Methane hydrates: energy solution, or worst idea ever?
Carrie Black
Halliburton, Iran, and Nukes
Cheney’s company is secretly doing business with key member of Iran’s nuclear team.
Scandal-plagued
Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President
Dick Cheney, has been workin...
Jason Leopold
Global Service Corps
Food security and HIV/AIDS
Lea Hoff
In Review
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell’s Fatal Obsession with Alaskan BearsNick JansDutton Publishing, 2005
Unless you’ve been in hibernation, you probably know that in October of
2003, self-proclaim...
Audrey Webb and Chris Clarke
Everyone’s got a story
Shyaam Shabaka
Carrie Black
Too much of nothing
Climate Change Update
Tom Athanasiou
Pombo and his cronies impede the effectiveness of the ESA
The
most recent attempt by Representative Richard Pombo to eviscerate the
Endangered Species Act has been largely ignored by the public, despite
relatively aggressive media coverage. As the Associated...
Chris Clarke
Brower Youth Awards
On September 30, seven incredible young activists received a 2005 Brower Youth Award, the most prestigious award in the US for leaders of tomorrow’s environmental and social justice movements.
E...
EI Staff
Paul Rogat Loeb
Photo: Erin KeefePaul Rogat Loeb. We’re
told the 9/11 attacks ushered us in to a new, more dangerous world,
where we can no longer afford old illusions. If we take its full
lessons, Hurricane Ka...
Paul Rogat Loeb
Recycling nuclear waste
Recycling nuclear waste
Your Summer 2005 Earth Island Journal had a piece by Natale Servino about “reusing” nuclear waste in the United Kingdom. It’s true, but
hey! The US has been and c...
EI Staff
Nature in the City
Urban people need nature, and our urban wildlands need us
Peter Brastow
Local News from All Over
AFRICA
Hotter, drier, poorer
In its June report to the annual G8 Summit entitled “Africa: Up in Smoke,” the Working Group on Climate Change and Development warned that global warming will increase...
EI Staff
International Marine Mammal Project
Earth Island Institute loses a good friend: Ben White, 1951–2005