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The Trouble with Bottled Water

Elizabeth Royte reflects on the backlash against commercializing a natural resource and responds to reader comments
April 14, 2008 | By Elizabeth Royte

Ed Begley, Jr. and his wife, Rachel Carson

Q&A - Ed Begley, Jr.

Actor and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr. talks about living green
April 14, 2008 | By Lyndon Stambler

Roots of the Sea

What mangroves give the world and why we can't afford to lose them
January 28, 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Mountain Messengers

Scientists scale peaks and study plants to understand the impact of warming
January 28, 2008 | By Anne Sasso

Up in Smoke

Amazon research that has withstood thieves and arsonists now faces its greatest challenge
January 28, 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

Ground Thaw

Geographer Christopher Burn explains why permafrost is thawing
January 28, 2008 | By Anne Casselman

Rishikesh

A Prayer for the Ganges

Across India, environmentalists battle a tide of troubles to clean up a river revered as the source of life
November 2007 | By Joshua Hammer

India in Peril

Rakesh Jaiswal, founder of ecofriends.org, talks about the country's growing list of environmental problems
October 31, 2007 | By Nicole Wroten

Wong

Midas Touch

To clean highly polluted groundwater, Michael Wong has developed a detergent based on gold
October 2007 | By William Booth

Philippe Cousteau believes we must join forces to save the environment: “People have this idea that government and industry are what really make a difference, but we [the public] are the only one who can get them to change. Here, Cousteau on location at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, FL recording "The Forsaken Mermaids" for Living on Earth.

Water Works

Taking up the family business, Philippe Cousteau campaigns to save our oceans and rivers
October 2007 | By G. Bruce Knecht

"The basic question was, What can Mozambique do to build its economy?" says Carr, in Gorongosa Park. His answer: eco-tourism.

Greg Carr's Big Gamble

In a watershed experiment, the Boston entrepreneur is putting $40 million of his own money into a splendid but ravaged park in Mozambique
May 2007 | By Stephanie Hanes

Earth Day 2008

EcoCenter: Greener Living

Smithsonian.com takes a look at common and easy ways to go green
April 18, 2007 | By Smithsonian.com

The Amazon loses 8,800 acres a day to deforestation.

Rain Forest Rebel

In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
March 2007 | By Joshua Hammer

Soda bottles make up the bulk of the construction of a 3,500-liter cistern that Andreas Froese (pictured) and schoolchildren built in Roatan, Honduras. When filled with sand, the bottles become nearly indestructible.

Waste Into Walls: Building Casas Out of Sand

A green technology guru heads to the dump in search of the stuff of dreams.
August 01, 2006 | By Erica Ryberg

Recycling computer components (detail of Keyboards, New Orleans, 2005) has benefits, but environmentalists and the electronics industry clash over methods and who should pay.

E-Gad!

Americans discard more than 100 million computers, cellphones and other electronic devices each year. As "e-waste" piles up, so does concern about this growing threat to the environment
August 2005 | By Elizabeth Royte

"The Torch Festival is the most important event to the Yi people. In the daytime, the Yi hold a ceremony to offer prayers to the gods or spirits associated with our lives. In the picture my sister-in-law—my second brother

Visions of China

With donated cameras, residents of remote villages document endangered ways of life, one snapshot at a time
March 2004 | By Marlane Liddell

"When economics drives the decisions" in managing America

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

"The nation behaves well if it treats resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value," wrote President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. Conservationist John Muir (with TR, on Yosemite

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

In the countryside, environmentalist Gudmundur Pall Olafsson has planted Icelandic flags, flying at half-mast to signify the threat to landscapes like these waterfalls.

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


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