Captive breeding of an endangered species can make the difference between its success or failure. The black-footed ferret, the cheetah, the Wyoming toad and the peregrine falcon have all spent generations in captivity, where they eat, drink, sleep and mate at the direction of biologists. All four have teetered on the edge of extinction but, at least partly as a payoff for "doing time" in captivity, they’ve dodged the bullet for now.
Remember emissions trading? Six years ago, it was all the rage, a new way to reduce pollution that reconciled the seemingly intractable forces of market capitalism and environmental protection. When Congress amended the Clean Air Act in 1990, politicians, some environmentalists, and many an industry executive, proposed market incentives as a way of curbing sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, instead of the traditional (and here’s that bad word again) regulatory approach.
Armando Valbuena Gouriyu speaks with quiet pride about his people, the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe inhabiting the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia, the northernmost point in South America. With a decentralized, rural society, the Wayuu successfully resisted colonial conquest. They traded with the British, Dutch and French, fought off pirates, and stubbornly retained a barter economy, as well as their own language and customs. "That helped us to survive," Gouriyu says.
Environmentalists fight to protect the microscopic creatures that dwell on the ocean’s bottom.
Interview with Richard Leakey.
Bike Power, Burning Trash, and the Low-Down on Automakers’ Search for Alt-Fuels.
Though the island’s economy is thriving, its unique environment is threatened.
For three weeks beginning in September, fish returning to the Klamath River to spawn died by the tens of thousands.
Bats around the world are benefiting from increased educational efforts.
I became vegetarian half a life ago, at age 25. Worried by then-common fears that vegetarians don’t get enough protein, I began cautiously, substituting awful-tasting peanut butter-marinara combinations for meat sauce, and doing lots of stir-fries with added protein powder. I also briefly tried the non-dairy route, drinking soy milks which, at the time, also […]
