The World’s Fisheries, A State of Emergency
Without a rapid shift in attitude among commercial fishermen, managers, and politicians, fishing economies–and the fish that support them–will vanish.
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The Inside Scoop
Most people link air pollution with industrial smokestacks or trucks belching clouds of diesel exhaust. But the air we breathe while indoors, where most of us spend 80 to 90 percent of our time, is filled with chemicals and particles that can deliver even higher levels of chemical exposure.
Getting Out the Vote
Elections 2003 Green electoral strategy is gaining traction for non profit organizations. Environmental candidates need all the help they can get from green groups.
Snack Attack
Chocolate chip cookies. Buttery popcorn. Chips and dip. Snacking is an American pastime. Indeed, Time.com has called us “a nation of committed Twinkie eaters,” while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced that the obesity rate is at an all-time high. Sixty-one percent of American adults are overweight or obese, a condition linked to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and some cancers, which kill 300,000 a year.
The Chalalan Example
Visiting the homespun Chalalan Ecolodge in Bolivia.As we sped up the Tuichi River in a motorized canoe, scarlet macaws squawked by overhead; capybaras at the water’s edge defied my perceptions of rodents; and tapir’s footprints blemished the spotless sands. This was going to be no ordinary visit to the Amazon.
Volunteering Your Vacation
Next Time Don't Just Watch the Whales, Study Them Last year, Muriel Horacek spent two weeks camping in a cave in China as she monitored an endangered species of monkey. She has also radio-tracked cheetahs by airplane over Namibia, taken water samples from a rowboat in a German lake, and in St. Croix caught the […]
The Sun Valley Experiment
Winter flooding in the Los Angeles area is often so severe that lives and homes are routinely lost in mudslides. Yet, the thirst for a stable water supply has defined this desert city. In 1913, the local water company built an ingenious but ethically dubious aqueduct to drain the Owens River 200 miles away into […]
Unsafe Sanctuaries
Protection Varies at America’s 12 Marine Reserves Galyn C. Hammond The wind muffles his speech as Ed Cassano, manager of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, looks out from his 56-foot research vessel Ballena. He gazes onto the broad Pacific waters that nurture the largest concentration of blue whales in the world—not to mention plentiful […]
Parks as Lungs
Frederick Law Olmsted had little idea how prescient he was when he said in 1827 that the midtown Manhattan park he was creating be the “lungs of the city.”
Saving A Coral Reef
A Grassroots Effort in Baja Pays Off In a remote area reachable only by a rough road that runs through a cactus-laden desert, Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo Bay appears abruptly from a bluff overlooking Baja’s Sea of Cortez. Here, 65 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas, lies the only living coral reef system in western North […]