While the Bush administration considers the recent completion of toxic waste clean-up efforts in Niagara, New York’s Love Canal neighborhood to be an environmental success story, Lois Gibbs (see "Be Safe! Lois Gibbs" New Campaign Urges Caution on Toxic Chemicals," Currents, July/August 2003) begs to differ. Gibbs, the mom-turned-activist who unearthed the pollution at Love […]
The fate of that symbol of the plains states, the prairie dog, still hangs in the balance (see "Open Season on Varmints," cover story, July/August 2004). Last August the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) removed the black-tailed prairie dog from the Endangered Species Act official candidate list, where it had sat awaiting funds for protection.
The wolf plays an integral part in Romanian culture and psyche. Today the Carpathian wilderness is home to more than a third of Europe’s large carnivore population, or 3,500 wolves, which is nearly as many as found in the entire U.S.
A Norwegian environmental group is defying mainstream environmental thinking by supporting the controversial process known as carbon sequestration as a short-term way of tackling climate change.
By Election Day, Sierra Club Votes reported that 12,000 volunteers had knocked on more than one million doors in nine battleground states. Conservation organizations had confidence that environmental voters would support John Kerry. What happened?
Hawthorne Valley Farm is home to dairy cows, some piglets and a team of biodynamic farmers. There’s also a high-energy bunch of nine-to-15-year-old urbanites cheerfully turning the compost, helping bake sourdough bread in the bakery, milking dairy cows and rising at six a.m. to feed the animals.
Can low-income home builders afford the luxury of going green? That question is being vigorously tested at some Habitat for Humanity affiliates.
San Francisco Bay-area municipal governments are working to grow sustainable communities, by passing green building ordinances, requiring energy-efficient designs, recycled content and a host of "green" strategies for public projects.
For more than 100 years, Tokyo and Washington were content with domination of Okinawa’s land. Now, say environmental groups on both sides of the Pacific, the United States Marine Corps has come for the sea as well.
While ethanol is cleaner and more efficient to produce than gas, environmentalists often give this alternative fuel the cold shoulder. The ethanol source of the future, some say, should be not the corn kernel but the stalk, cob and other portions of the plant that are currently fed to livestock or left lying on the field.
