Ouch!
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling.
November 2003 |
By Michael Parfit
Fire Fight
With forests burning, U.S. officials are clashing with environmentalists over how best to reduce the risk of catastrophic blazes
August 2003 |
By Paul Trachtman
Where the Wild Things Are
President Theodore Roosevelt started what would become the world's most successful experiment in conservation
March 2003 |
By Smithsonian magazine
To the Rescue
Las Vegas showman Jonathan Kraft went from riches to rags to turn a patch of Arizona desert into a refuge for abused and abandoned exotic animals
March 2003 |
By Paul Trachtman
California Scheming
Los Angeles' insatiable thirst for water, which drained the Owens Valley, has ruined lives, shaped the city's politics and provoked ongoing controversy
October 2002 |
By Mark Wheeler
Iceland Be Dammed
In the island nation, a dispute over harnessing rivers for hydroelectric power is generating floods of controversy
June 2002 |
By Jon Swan
The End of the Road
In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe
February 2000 |
By T. H. Watkins
A Darkness in Donora
When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start
November 1999 |
By Edwin Kiester, Jr.
Coming to Terms
Our names for people who respect the environment should be as varied as the ways we see it
December 1998 |
By John P. Wiley, Jr.
Wastewater Problem? Just Plant a Marsh
For some of the toughest environmental cleanups, plants can do it better and cheaper than we can
July 1997 |
By John P. Wiley, Jr.
