A Green Getaway
The Virgin Islands" Maho Bay puts conservation first.
Environmental Justice in Alabama
If the planned relocation of Alabama’s Greene County jail goes ahead as scheduled, prisoners may be sentenced to inhaling toxic waste as part of their incarceration.
Ginette Hemley
Wildlife Warrior In a photograph she furnished to E, Ginette Hemley, vice president for species conservation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is casting a practiced eye on the goods for sale at an Asian market, undoubtedly on the lookout for products containing tiger bone, rhino horn or other endangered species ingredients. From 1986 to […]
Our Beleaguered Beaches
Increased Pollution And Lax Water Quality Standards Lessen Summer Fun In The Sun
Dangerous Beauty
Flower Farms May Threaten Workers and the Environment Driving through central Costa Rica below the Tilaran Mountains, travelers see a hillside blanketed with exotic flowers. But the bucolic vision is immediately undercut by the sight of a semi-rusted drum, etched with a skull-and-crossbones warning. Workers—mostly women—dip plants ready for shipping into a noxious-looking brew. The […]
Better Ideas
Ford in Pursuit of the Green Car In the early 1930s, Henry Ford walked into his company’s research lab with a bag of chicken bones, dumped them on a desk and proclaimed, “See what you can do with these.” He later urged his staff to try out cantaloupes, carrots, cornstalks, cabbages and onions in his […]
Currents of Change
Can Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal be Cleaned Up? A cruise up the murky Gowanus Canal is a journey into the heart of darkest Brooklyn. These sell-out excursions focus not on romance, fine dining or savoring the Manhattan skyline. Instead, throngs lining the boat railings observe rust-belt factories along the waterway, forming a forbidden jungle. One shocked […]
Fast Track
A Rail Renaissance Moves Ahead, Despite Conservative Opposition On a late summer weekend last year, more than 260,000 people celebrated the opening of the 18-mile Westside Line in Portland, Oregon. They got out of their cars, partied at the station stops, and waited for a chance to squeeze aboard the jam-packed train cars. Trains are […]
Extinct is Forever
“The combination of rampant poaching…and unabated habitat loss…has intensified the threats to the survival of healthy wild populations.” The quote is from a report on saving the tiger, but it could just as easily have referred to rhinos, giant pandas, or a variety of other endangered species. These two factors have put a long list […]
The Last of Their Kind
The big, slow-moving Galapagos tortoise is one of the most endangered animals on Earth, confined to dwindling populations on just five islands. On one of these islands so memorably visited by Charles Darwin, a solitary male tortoise survives. Galapagos tortoises, which can grow to over 500 pounds, live to 100 and take 20 years to […]