Kevin Connelly

KinoBay, Sonora, Mexico: Standing at the bow of the boat, Ramon Lopez – anelder Seri man – observes the horizon, the color of the sea, thesmells, and the islands, just as his ancestors hav...

One of thetough things about this job is that working with so many passionate,committed activists, and being charged with representing their work toour readership, it’s hard to avoid coming clos...

UniversitÁrea Protegida (UÁP) is completing its second year supporting Nicaraguan universitystudents doing ecological and social research in rural communitiesthroughout the country. Many...

Thefederal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule soon afterpress time on a key piece of evidence, kick-starting the long awaitedcriminal trial involving Houston-based Reliant Energy&rsquo...

Climate skepticRegarding “Goodbye North Pole?” (Winter, 2005 EIJ “Around the world”) You mention that the media is not covering thebiggest news story in recent history as the m...

Whenmost people think of recycling, they think of aluminum cans, newspaper,glass, milk jugs, and cardboard being diverted from landfills toconserve resources for future generations. That is, after all...

What’sin a name? That was the question riling the sustainable food communitylast fall as consumer groups, farmers and food processors battled overwhether to amend the USDA’s “organic...

Photos.comIn1845, New York journalist John O’Sullivan coined the phrase “ManifestDestiny,” an expression that would remain shorthand during the latenineteenth century for the belief ...

Theterm “frozen” often connotes “immune to change.” Perhaps no land is sofirmly tied to that word as Siberia. Of all parts of Siberia, no placeso richly deserves this connectio...

Citylimits carved in stone? Heavy-handed public transportation mandates?Wisconsin’s controversial comprehensive planning law is relativelyinnocuous compared to the accusations critics have level...

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez builds new alliances with oil

Victory in the Solomon Islands

What will it take for the WTO to notice starving children in Niger or Malawi?Trade negotiators from 148 countries gathered at the sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Hong Kong in Dec...

How activists worked to liberate the world’s most famous orca

Billy Parish, a former Brower Youth Awards winner and the founder of Energy Action, was featured in the November 3 issue of Rolling Stone. The profile was part of an article called “Warriors and...

AfricaPachyderm pactTwelvecountries in West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’ Ivoire, Guinea,Guniea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone,and Togo – have a...

Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve

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Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out