Extra! The production schedule of a quarterly magazine works against includinglate-breaking news. Earth Island Journal hits the newsstands aboutthree weeks after the document is sent to our prin...

US Corporations carve up Iraq

A view from Mozambique Just a quick note of thanks for your Spring 2004 edition of Earth Island Journal, which I enjoyed very much. I particularly liked your “From the Editor” article on ...

InDecember, a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarian discoveredthat a cow imported from Canada into Washington state tested positivefor the invariably fatal Mad Cow disease. Two months later...

GLOBAL Is it getting hot in here? A new report indicates that the number of species wiped out by globalclimate change will soon exceed extinctions expected from habitatdestruction. The re...

A new direction for the Valdivian rainforest

UniversitÁrea Protegida In early March, hundreds of students from La Universidad NacionalAutónomo de Nicaragua (UNAN León) held a student strike. They stoodoutside the city hal...

On December 23, at approximately 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,staffers at the US Forest Service in Washington, DC pressed the “send”buttons on their fax machines, then scuttled through ...

ForJeff Greenwald’s 40th birthday, he treated himself to a 29,172-milearound-the-world overland voyage, and wrote a book called The Size of the World detailing his experiences. This year, for hi...

From Mendocino, California to Montpelier, Vermont, communities arepassing measures to say no to the contamination of the food supply withgenetically engineered (GE) seeds and crops. Resistance to the ...

Kids for the Bay Diversity In environmental education To encourage students to become environmentalists, it is important toprovide role models that reflect their cultural backgrounds and inspiret...

Theflight into Nairobi airport is spectacular. As your plane begins itsapproach, look out the window at the broad grasslands of Kitengela,home to Maasai pastoralists and their livestock—you can ...

International Marine Mammal Project Bush administration conspired with Mexico The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) recently released aseries of memos that show a pattern of deliberate a...

In May 2003, I had the great honor of meeting the legendary Harvardscientist Dr. Edward O. Wilson. When I thanked him for signing ourletter calling on the UN to institute a moratorium on longline fish...

Earth Island is pleased to welcome three new projects. The Alliance for a Clean Waterfront (ACW) will lead efforts to transform the way San Francisco manages itsstormwater and sewage. Much of San Fran...

Cracked, dried mud stretches for many yards at the Hite Marina.In his foreword to Eliot Porter’s The Place No One Knew,David Brower wrote, “Glen Canyon died in 1963, and I was partlyrespon...