Wildlife traffickers suffered stunning setbacks in Santiago, Chile inNovember when the 160-nation Convention on International Trade inEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) extended its le...

SAVE International Happy birthday, SAVE On August 26, Berkeley-based SAVE International celebrated its fifthanniversary on the UC Berkeley campus. The event provided anopportunity for SAVE to ...

The secret plan to drill for oil just outside the Great Barrier Reef National Park

Grassroots Globalization Network Real results from Jo’burg At the recent World Sustainability Hearing in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, regular civilians and civic leaders from around the gl...

Results from the long-awaited Long Island Breast Cancer Study werereleased this summer, and they dismayed many activists. Most reportersinterpreted the results as proof that pollutants did not cause b...

World Sustainability Hearing’s Project World Summit to the movement: “Do you have a pulse?” The UN’s World Summit on Sustainable Development was held at the end ofAugus...

Sacred Land Film Project Before a screening of In the Light of Reverence at Arizona State University earlier this year, Cal Seciwa (Zuni), thedirector of ASU’s American Indian Institute, unfu...

The holidays canbe emotionally and environmentally wearing. According to the Center fora New American Dream (www.newdream.org), over 5 million extra tons oftrash are produced in the US between Thanksg...

International Marine Mammal Project Local group sues Nagoya Port Authority Ombudsman Aichi, a citizens’ group in Aichi prefecture, Japan, has suedthe Nagoya Port Authority (NPA), seeking...

Working with the Environment, by Tim Ryder and Elisabeth Roberts, Vacation Work, 2000 This book provides information on paid and volunteer opportunities,both in the US and abroad. The chapters a...

Megaproject moves forward despite widespread opposition.

Circle of Life Foundation Circle of Life to become independent On November 1, 2002, Circle of Life became independent of Earth IslandInstitute after two years as a project of the parent organi...

Kentucky college launches green initiative

Voyage to the bottom of the embargo

KIDS for the BAY In November, KIDS for the BAY (KftB) celebrated 10 years of providingmeaningful and effective environmental education to East San FranciscoBay children. Based in Berkeley, Californ...

Thepressure of being a student can be compounded unnecessarily byfinancial woes. Keeping up the grades can be a problem if yourpart-time job gets in the way of studying. With some advance planning,you...

AFRICA GM skeeters Malaria claims nearly a million lives a year on the African continent,and as pesticides such as DDT become increasingly ineffective againstthe disease’s mosquito vector...

Mangrove Action Project Thecoastal area of North Sulawesi in Indonesia is famous for itsworld-class diving among the coral reefs off Bunaken National Park.Less famous but equally important are the ...

When I decided to change my life by entering the environmental field, Ididn’t have a clue about what I could do, how to do it, or where to goto make my way. At the time, though, I didn’t c...

Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters October marked the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. Even withthe Great Lakes dying and the Cuyahoga River on fire, it took aCongressional overri...

America's fish stocks are crashing faster than Wall Street stocks last July, mostly for the same reason: