Environmental Preservation
Ground Thaw
Geographer Christopher Burn explains why permafrost is thawing
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Making Your Holiday Tree Eco-Friendly
A Prayer for the Ganges
Across India, environmentalists battle a tide of troubles to clean up a river revered as the source of life
India in Peril
Rakesh Jaiswal, founder of ecofriends.org, talks about the country's growing list of environmental problems
Midas Touch
To clean highly polluted groundwater, Michael Wong has developed a detergent based on gold
Water Works
Taking up the family business, Philippe Cousteau campaigns to save our oceans and rivers
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
EcoCenter: Greener Living
Smithsonian.com takes a look at common and easy ways to go green
Rain Forest Rebel
In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with a chief to stop illegal developers from destroying the wilderness
Waste Into Walls: Building Casas Out of Sand
A green technology guru heads to the dump in search of the stuff of dreams
Corn Plastic to the Rescue
Wal-Mart and others are going green with "biodegradable" packaging made from corn. But is this really the answer to America's throwaway culture?
ANWR: The Great Divide
The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve
E-Gad!
Americans discard more than 100 million electronic devices each year. As "e-waste" piles up, so does concern about this growing threat to the environment
Visions of China
With donated cameras, residents of remote villages document endangered ways of life, one snapshot at a time
Fire Fight
With forests burning, U.S. officials are clashing with environmentalists over how best to reduce the risk of catastrophic blazes
Where the Wild Things Are
President Theodore Roosevelt started what would become the world's most successful experiment in conservation
Iceland Be Dammed
In the island nation, a dispute over harnessing rivers for hydroelectric power is generating floods of controversy
The End of the Road
In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe
A Darkness in Donora
When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start
Coming to Terms
Our names for people who respect the environment should be as varied as the ways we see it
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