Unearthed

Artists Turn Their Talents To Recycling.

An Innovative Recovery Effort May Return the Endangered Condor To The Wild.

These are tough times for Surf City, USA. The crashing waves and golden sands of Huntington Beach, once immortalized by the Beach Boys as the epitome of southern Californian living, has been stricken by a mysterious affliction. The California beaches of surfing legend are now off limits because of uncontrollable solid waste pollution.© Guy Motil/Surfrider […]

Six months after the largest and most commercially-prized Pacific salmon species, the Puget Sound Chinook, hit the federal Endangered Species List, local efforts to craft a homegrown recovery plan for Seattle's signature fish remain mired in special-interest face-offs amongst the region's three million inhabitants. Now, it's the federal government's turn to call the shots, as […]

To the Navajo, the extinct volcano marking the western pillar of their sprawling reservation is called Diichiti, the Mountain of Strength. It is sacred ground to the Navajo, Havasupi and Hopi tribes.

As the world's population hit six billion last October, rock and pop stars concerned about the world's environmental problems teamed up with the United Nations to perform an unprecedented Internet-based global concert called Net Aid (www.netaid.org). Whatever its musical significance, the concert, which featured such performers as Jewel, Sting and U2's Bono, also underscored a […]

Deep in the Heart of Smog While Texas Governor George W. Bush was away campaigning for his party's Presidential nomination last summer, his fellow Texans were choking on the dirtiest air in the country. During 1999, Texas led the nation in Clean Air Act violations, and Houston replaced Los Angeles as our “smoggiest city.” Like […]

Actor Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves) is still trying to exchange the eagle feather, given to him during his adoption ceremony into the Sioux Indian tribe, for some golf clubs. In E's last account (see “Dances With Casinos,” In Brief, November/December 1995), Costner was awaiting approval to build a multi-million-dollar golf resort, The Dunbar, in […]

Sunflowers and soil detoxification, lead in Venetian blinds, The Great Ape Project, cleaning Mexico City’s air, reusing rubber tires, environmental justice on the web, banana paper.

Anyone who watched the 2003 television coverage of coalition troops hurtling across barren desert wastelands through raging dust storms saw the legendary marshes of Iraq—at least what was left of them. The dry, cracked, seemingly endless stretches of desert that the tanks and jeeps rolled across are the consequences of a severe human-engineered disaster. And […]