Radioactive waste from the nation’s atomic past could be connected to the high number of cancers and rare illnesses in Missouri's North St. Louis County.
Lori Freshwater
Feature Articles
Living in Limbo
Five years after the meltdown in Fukushima, the Japanese government’s effort to reboot its nuclear energy program is still being met with resistance.
Winifred Bird
Repurposing Rocky Flats
The transition of a heavily polluted nuclear site into a wilderness refuge raises questions about the implications of hiding our tainted environmental past.
Eric Freedman
Killing to Conserve
Is it effective, or ethical, to cull one protected species to help another?
Jim Yuskavitch
Sea Change
The wasting disease afflicting sea stars is but one of many indications that a warmer ocean is a sicker ocean.
Eric Wagner
To Our Readers
Lest We Forget
“Drinking a glass of water shouldn’t be risky business,” I wrote in the previous issue of this magazine. Sadly, the unfolding crisis in Flint, Michigan – where people’s drinking water has be...
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Digging Deeper
Un-bottling Water
photo Taneli MielikäinenNational Parks are banning plastic in favor of refillable water bottle hydration stations.
The majestic half-dome of Yosemite. The psychedelic-colored hot springs of Yellow...
Anna Lappé
Earth Island Reports
Sharing Conservation Success Stories
Wild Hope
Kathryn Arnold
From Water Bearers to Water Providers
Global Women’s Water Initiative
Gemma Bulos
1000 Words
Beauty in Truth
Linda Gass
Journal Staff
Conversation
Rhea Suh
The so-called “Big Green” groups have a diversity problem. They are overwhelmingly white, and the top leadership is predominantly male. Rhea Suh, now in her second year as president of the Natural...
Zoe Loftus-Farren
In Review
The Naturalist We Know Nothing About
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, 496 pages
Gerry Wingenbach
Battling Big Oil in Texas
A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas by Adam Briggle Liverlight Publishing Corporation, 2015, 336 pages
Mark J Palmer
Voices
The Something I Do
“Because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do…”
—Edward Everett Hale
For more than 20 years I have spent my Saturday nights volunteering as part of ...
