The Earth Liberation Front Targets Long Island Sprawl An hour east of New York City, along the former rural Route 25A, the occasional roadside nursery and peach farm stand out like orphans among the business strips and office tracts of the island’s North Shore. The farms are fast disappearing in Suffolk County, and the way […]
Dutch Farmers Change the Landscape for Wildlife’s Sake.
Are cancer clusters more likely in populations that live near nuclear power plants? Researchers are starting to think so….
Will Green Power Survive California’s Energy Crisis? With bated breath, the nation has been watching California to see how electric utility restructuring would affect the price of power, the reliability of electric service and the green power industry. Consumer advocates hoped for lower power prices. Environmentalists hoped to see green power on a larger scale […]
After Founding Esprit and North Face, Doug Tompkins Dresses Up an 800,000-Acre Park When Esprit founder Doug Tompkins went on a rainforest exploration trip to Chile seven years ago, he didn’t realize he’d soon be buying huge swaths of land down there, or that his growing passion for preservation would stir controversy all over the […]
Australia FIghts Back Against invader Species.
Bikes and Buses Battle the Road, Tire and Asphalt Lobby You’re riding your bike to work on the Willamette River Pathway in Portland, Oregon. Before you get to your office, you stop for a shower at Bike Central, a commuting facility downtown. That evening, you put your bicycle on a bus rack and head for […]
Independent Landowners Cut Down Trees to Save the Forest Although its southern half is dotted with sprawling suburban corridors, northern Maine is as empty and dark as a velvet stage curtain. The mixed forests—tall white pine, bristly spruce, oak and maple—seem to extend forever. "Most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the […]
Attempting to Push an Anti-Environmental Agenda, Congress Goes Into Stealth Mode.
In yet another example of the dire state of the world’s oceans, the World Conservation Union announced last week that it will be adding 10 species of sharks and rays to its global "Red List" of endangered species. Researchers cite overfishing throughout the world’s oceans as well as soaring demand for shark fin in Asia as the primary culprits in the global decline of shark populations.
