High-Tech Plans to Generate Undersea Electricity Say anything, but don’t accuse Jared Blumenfeld of thinking small. The director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment has been staring at the Golden Gate Bridge a lot lately, wondering how the picture-postcard scene would look if he tucked a huge electric power plant beneath it. If done […]
The "Magna Carta" of Environmental Protection Faces an Uncertain Future When Utah Governor Mike Leavitt proposed constructing a 120-mile freeway running north and south through his state, developers eagerly waited to begin digging and paving. But a few significant details bogged down their plans. As a coalition of environmental groups called Utahns for Better Transportation […]
Can a Big Country With Very Few People be Overpopulated? Just because a country has a huge land area and a relatively small population does not mean it can continue to grow unchecked. In Canada and Australia, for instance, activists are raising the possibility that they may already be overpopulated. Australians are worried about two […]
Venice’s $3 Billion Plan to Stop a Rising Sea Gets Mixed Reviews It’s a clear, calm night—no storms, no wind, no unusual weather of any kind—but Venice’s Piazza San Marco is flooding. As the tide crests, seawater begins pouring from storm drains, forming a growing pond in the middle of the city’s most important square. […]
Animal Rights, opinion by Doug Moss, Publisher, E, Environmental Magazine
Do animals have legal rights or are they just property? A movement to grant protections under the law is gathering force, propelled by new findings on animal intelligence.
How individuals are helping to conserve national wildlife refuges in the United States…what you can do.
The Bush Administration’s record on the national wildlife refuge system so far…
In his role as Refuge Program Manager for Defenders of Wildlife, Noah Matson has been both a vocal critic of and enthusiastic cheerleader for the national wildlife refuge system.
National wildlife refuge system, Seeking Sanctuary, Roddy Scheer, As it begins its second 100 years, our national wildlife refuge system is threatened by its very popularity, problems include air and water pollution, recreational overuse, the invasion of non-native species and global warming
