Photo: photos.comA revolution for the ocean Theworld suffered a recent enormous human tragedy on the Indian Ocean’sshores. Oceans themselves have also suffered greatly in the past year.Millions of t...

Kids for the Bay Program Director Kristina Cervantes-Yoshida helpsSeaview Elementary School students test water quality at Garrity Creekin San Pablo, California. Photo: Keturah AshfieldEPA Award KID...

Illai Kenney

Navajos(Dinés) who have lost family members from radioactive contamination –and those fighting new proposals for uranium development – celebratedthe passage April 19 of the Dine Nat...

Thelast three months have seen a rather startling number of news storiesabout wildlife species showing up where they weren’t expected. In June,biologists announced a breeding pair of least Bell&...

UniversitÁrea Protegida UniversitÁrea Protegida (UÁP) works with Nicaraguan university students in natural reservesthroughout the country to promote research, conservation, and...

Oil spills on the North Slope are routine, and so are oil executives’ lies about them.Thousandsof caribou and other types of wildlife will be displaced if DClawmakers pass a measure to a...

Angry about Heifer I was very disappointed to see the article about Heifer International [Summer 2005 EIJ],a well-intentioned group that provides animals to impoverished people.The problem is that wh...

Fighting nuclear waste disposal in Kazakhstan

Gray “veneer” flakes off an exfoliating canyon wall. Photo: Hank TurnerDuringEaster week in 1965, two dozen people paid a farewell visit to thelower Escalante River on the Colorado Plateau...

New tracks touted as good for the planet

ThePenan women of Long Lunyim are now cultivating rice and vegetables toreverse the malnutrition caused by forest degredation from industriallogging. Photo: Jessica LawrencePenan restore biodiversity,...

From Trashy to Flashy

Drive through one of the West Coast’s deadliest neighborhoods

“Imagine that a scientist and a libertarian go out for a drive one day…” Fromthe day Bush took office, it’s been his policy to disregard the adviceand findings of environmental scien...

New York gardeners bring fresh, healthy food to the less-affluent

Another big court win for dolphins The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) is celebrating an important legal victory for dolphins in the USCourt of Appeals. A three-judge panel unanimously tu...

AFRICA Global warming and malaria Thenumber of South Africans at risk for malaria will quadruple by the year2020 as global warming brings infected mosquitoes south. Mosquitoescarrying the malaria ...

In the Light of Reverence, the documentary produced and directed by Christopher McLeod of Sacred Land Film Project, was recently awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Medi...