Mangrove Action Project Brazil contains the world’s second largest mangrove area - estimatessuggest that over a million hectares of mangrove forest are found alongBrazil’s extensive coa...

You may be familiar with the dangers of climate disruption as a result of human-induced increases of carbon dioxide (CO2)and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But recent scientificdiscoveries ...

I told myself this issue’s note from the editor wouldn’t mention the US president. Even we at the Earth Island Journal do get tired of paying attention to bad news, after all: I planned t...

City Talk Entebbe, population 90,000, is a pleasant, green city on the edge ofUganda’s Lake Victoria, site of a world-famous botanic garden. It isalso the former seat of the Ugandan governmen...

Eachyear, on a few dark nights in a secluded cove of Panama’s AzueroPeninsula, thousands of olive ridley sea turtles emerge from thePacific Ocean to lay their eggs in the sand. Each one, out of ...

AFRICA Parks congress focuses on protected areas The fifth World Parks Congress - this year themed “Benefits BeyondBoundaries” - took place in Durban in early September. Two thou...

ReThink Paper For the past two years, ReThink Paper has participated in “The PaperCampaign,” targeting the Staples company to improve its environmentalpolicy. Efforts included more than...

It may or may not be true that the ongoing war in Iraq is about oil;the jury, it seems, is still out. But oil certainly played some role inthe conflict, if only as a voice in President Bush’s da...

The Boreal Footprint Project has published a new report entitled “Aboriginal Experiences in Canada’sParks and Protected Areas.” The report was commissioned to contributeto the combin...

courtesy Veronica EadyImaginebeing so dedicated to a cause that you’d consider a 3,000-mile commute.For the past five years, Veronica Eady has done just that. Several times a year, Eady tre...

Deep-sea corals are perhaps the most vulnerable to bottom trawling of all forms of marine life.

Some progress at IWC

Will an ill-considered mega-tourism development plan end a traditional way of life?

Brower Youth Awards ©Daniel Lee/DKL Images www.dklimages.comFourgenerations of environmental leaders attended the 2003 Brower YouthAwards ceremony on September 25 in Berkeley, California. Davi...

©Munir Virani/The Peregrine Fund On the round-the-world trip chronicled in his book Following the Equator,Mark Twain stopped off in Bombay (now known as Mumbai) and, as part ofthe standard t...

One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement Paul Kingsnorth, Simon & Schuster UK, 2003, $18.00 US (approx.:not released in US. Order online through mcnallyrob...

C-SAW While mega-cruise ships may conjure up images of romance and five-starservice, they also pollute our water and air, evade taxes, paysubstandard wages, and lobby around the democratic process....

Opposition from the world's poorest countries derails the World Trade Organization's Fifth Ministerial Meeting

SAVE International ©SAVE Int’lLastwinter, 73 black-faced spoonbills died of botulism in Taiwan. About 50birds had already died before the cause of the disease could beidentified. Local o...

Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum William F. Fisher, Thomas Ponniah eds.; Zed Books, 2003 $19.95 Good News for a Change: How Everyday Peo...