Siberia Is Not a (Nuclear) Wasteland

Eight Years Later, the Bolivian Water War Continues

At noon and five p.m. every day, a bell rings throughout the verdant coastal town of Ikumi Beach in the Shikoku Province of Japan. It is the communal lunch chime that later in the day doubles as a c...

Taking Brower’s Vision to the Grand Canyons of the East

Robert Dawson

The Hidden Water Costs of Our Industrial Economy

June’s winter Westerlies are pelting Cape Town, but beyond the peaks of the Overberg, most of the country is experiencing South Africa’s typical rainless winter. It’s 6 a.m., and ou...

AfricaAsiaEuropeNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth AmericaAFRICAThe $38 Million MosquitoMalaria, a disease transmitted primarily from mosquitoes, strikes the hardest in sub-Saharan Africa, where most of the es...

In the US, we have had the good fortune, mostly, to take for granted that water is a human right. Aside from summer drought warnings asking us to take shorter showers, very few states have felt the ...

Welcome to the AnthropoceneThe Geological Society of London is the oldest association of Earth scientists in the world. Its members, as author Mike Davis reports in Rachel’s Democracy & Hea...

Telecommute SolutionI just read Adam Federman’s article “Roadkill” (Summer 2008) and am hoping we can overcome some of the noise around congestion pricing and telework. At worst, co...

Climate Change Threatens to Dry Up the Southwest’s Future

Sometimes, being prescient is no prize. First published in 1986, Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water is, sadly, still relevant. Reisner’s core p...

The Flap Over the Mail Order Butterfly Industry

If someone you worshipped gave you an amazing gift, you’d take incredibly good care of it, right? That’s the question many religious leaders are asking of their congregations as a way of ...

Jennifer Castner Residents in the Altai region of Russia seek to reroute a planned gas pipeline. Ocean Embassy, a company planning to capture and traffic live dolphins in Panama, has closed in t...

The Struggle to Save Belize’s Glover’s Atoll

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Plastics, Pesticides, and Pills Are Contaminating Our Drinking Supply

Several months after finishing author Maude Barlow’s fine book Blue Covenant, there’s a line I can’t get out of my head: “Farms, cities, and industries all over the world are … drilling deep...