Shyaam Shabaka

Climate Change Update

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...

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...

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...

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...

Urban people need nature, and our urban wildlands need us

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...

Earth Island Institute loses a good friend: Ben White, 1951–2005

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...

Indigenous victory overturned

Demand for fish oil puts the Chesapeake under increasing pressure.

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...

Methane hydrates: energy solution, or worst idea ever?

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...

Food security and HIV/AIDS

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...