Through a new partnership with ecotourism operator Manaca (www.manaca.com), E: The Environmental Magazine is able to offer its first-ever environmental travel opportunity, a 13-day visit to Europe guided by E Editor Jim Motavalli. While there will be plenty of opportunity to relax and sight-see, the theme of the trip (including visits to England, France, Austria […]
Ecotourism Destinations That Go the Extra Mile If you’ve ever wanted to try an eco-tour, this is the year to get up and get out. Never has there been a better opportunity to see nature up-close and personal while also giving something back to the communities you visit. This is not a "Best Of" list—there […]
Natural Alternatives to Toxic Coloring Agents I was born to be a redhead, but that’s not the color I got. The first time my hair dried to the glorious shade of red on the box of dye, I was hooked. I’m not alone: more than 50 million women in America dye their hair on a […]
The Growing Confusion About Eating Soy Foods While it may still be a newcomer to American diets, the soybean is an old friend in China: 5,000 year-old records show that it was a staple in the Chinese diet even then. During the U.S. Civil War, soldiers brewed the beans as "coffee berries" when real java […]
Modern Bacteria are Resisting Treatment by Antibiotics When penicillin was first discovered to cure diseases in the 1930s, it seemed a miracle. Some thought you couldn’t get too much of a good thing. One Asian brothel routinely fed penicillin prophylactically to its workers, hoping to prevent infections. But some Neisseriea gonorrheoeae, the bacterium that causes […]
Mold spores float around inside & out but usually don’t cause problems for us — except when they settle into our homes & expand…
Jonathan Rogers travels to the Turks & Caicos in the British West Indies to relish in the sounds of silence…
Until the late l9th century, American bison thundered across plains and trails from Kansas to West Virginia, carrying with them the seeds of running buffalo clover—embedded in hooves, entangled in hair and lodged within droppings. Within this symbiotic relationship, wherever buffalo went in eight states, clover followed. The last buffalo east of the Mississippi was […]
Three Native Americans from the Gwich"in tribe of northern Yukon were honored with this year’s North American Goldman Environmental Prize for their efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from the effects of oil drilling. The Gwich"in consider the land and wildlife intrinsic to their culture. Winner Sarah James hopes the prize’s publicity […]
Wildlife researchers have discovered a new best friend. In studies from Alberta to Vermont, specially trained dogs are now being used to gather valuable information about bears, foxes and other elusive species from their droppings. The idea of using dogs to systematically detect wildlife "scat" was initiated five years ago by Samuel Wasser, director of […]
