Environment

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For a Week's Worth of Gas
The Bush energy plan has opened some of the West's last best places to oil and gas drilling. The wildlife of Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley will never be the same.
By Ted Williams
September/October 2004 Issue

Meadow's End
For 14 years, Professor John Harte has been baking a Rocky Mountain meadow to demonstrate the effects of global warming. The results aren't pretty.
By Daniel Duane
July/August 2004 Issue

The Ungreening of America
A Mother Jones Special Project
How the Bush Administration is rolling back 30 years of environmental progress.

Dirty Secrets
No president has gone after the nation's environmental laws with the same fury as George W. Bush -- and none has been so adept at staying under the radar.
By Osha Gray Davidson
September/October 2003 Issue

Down Upon the Suwannee River
It was only a small environmental rule change by Bush's EPA. But it's threatening Florida's Suwannee River -- and the nation's wetlands.
By Ted Williams
September/October 2003 Issue

No Clear Skies
In a Texas oil town, the assault on the nation's clean-air laws has hit close to home.
By Donovan Webster and Michael Scherer
September/October 2003 Issue

All the Disappearing Islands
As the ice caps melt and oceans rise, will Tuvalu become a modern Atlantis? By Julia Whitty
July/August 2003 Issue

Fear and Fallout in Los Alamos
Welcome to a town of 35 churches, two bars, and tons and tons of radioactive waste.
By Bill Donahue
May/June 2003 Issue

What's a River For?
Thousands of dead salmon, acres of dying crops, pesticide-poisoned birds: How the Klamath River became the first casualty in the West's new water wars.
By Bruce Barcott
May/June 2003 Issue

As the World Burns
Long ago, in a decade far, far away, the Bush plan on global warming begins to take shape....
By Ian Frazier
March/April 2003 Issue

A Crossroad for Wilderness
If the Bush administration gets its way, roads will be slashed through the Tongass, the largest intact temperate rain forest on earth.
By Ted Williams
September/October 2002 Issue

It's Easy Being Green
George W. Bush doesn't get it yet. But renewable energy is no longer the stuff of noble visions and pipe dreams: It's available, inexpensive, and increasingly -- normal.
By Bill McKibben
July/August 2002 Issue

Prevailing Winds
For decades, Big Energy blew off renewable energy as insignificant. Now the industry's biggest players are racing to build wind farms -- and cash in on the latest energy boom.
By Alex Markels
July/August 2002 Issue

Open Season on Open Space
The Bush administration has made energy development on public lands its priority number one. The wild West will never be the same.
By Bob Burtman
July/August 2002 Issue

Radioactive Recycling
If the Department of Energy has its way, the nation's nuclear garbage could end up in everyday items like bicycles, frying pans, and baby strollers.
By Susan Q. Stranahan
July/August 2002 Issue

Losing the Cool
For the people of the Arctic, climate change is more than a scientific finding -- it's a new, and unwelcome, way of life.
By Gordon Laird
March/April 2002 Issue

The 300-Million-Gallon Warning
Are the nation's abandoned coal-slurry ponds environmental disasters waiting to happen?
By David Kohn
March/April 2002 Issue

The Same River Twice
It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river.
By Bill Donahue
November/December 2000 Issue

Hog Heaven? Members of South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux tribe don't like the smell of their latest economic development project.
By Judith Reitman
March/April 2001 Issue

Coming Clean
Did 3M and DuPont ignore evidence of health risks?
By Jim Morris
September/October 2001 Issue

The World Wild Web
Add a new hazard to the forces threatening the globe's rarest creatures: the Internet.
By Nicole Veash
September/October 2001 Issue

Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Roulette
The government is relying on some Vegas-style oddsmaking as it moves ahead with plans to bury deadly radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
By Jon Christensen
September/October 2001 Issue

Aquaculture's Troubled Harvest
Raising salmon in ocean pens was supposed to preserve the wild and feed the world. But all over the globe, industrial-style fish farming is threatening native fish and the ecosystems that depend on them. The latest battleground: British Columbia.
By Bruce Barcott
November/December 2001 Issue

High-Risk Monkey Business
The exotic-animal trade is moving disease-carrying primates from labs and zoos into the hands of pet owners. The results, scientists warn, can be deadly.
By Alan Green
November/December 1999 Issue

The End of Growth
"Renounce and enjoy," Gandhi taught. Now, as we push the global limits of unrestrained growth and comsumption, his message may finally hit home.
By Bill McKibben
November/December 1999 Issue

Buffalo Soldiers
The activists of the Buffalo Field Campaign are putting themselves on the line to try to stop the state-sponsored killing of the nation's last herd of wild bison.
By Maryanne Vollers
November/December 1999 Issue

Razing Appalachia
First they dug out the land. Then they strip mined it. Now Big Coal is leveling the mountains themselves--and tearing communities apart.
By Maryanne Vollers
July/August 1999 Issue

Backfire
Environmentalists had forged an unusual coalition with locals and animal rights activists to oppose Vail's growth -- until ecoterrorists torched the mountain.
By Alex Markels
March/April 1999 Issue

Spielberg's Other Lost World
Los Angeles has its own Central Park sitting right under its nose, waiting to be noticed. Instead, it's being bulldozed, and Steven Spielberg is building his new film studio on the site as part of one of the biggest real estate developments in the city's history.
By Mark Hertsgaard
January/February 1999 Issue

An Interview with Theo Colborn
A controversial scientist speaks on plastics, IQ, and the womb.
Interviewed By Marilyn Berlin Snell
March/April 1998 Issue

Travel to Exotic Foreign Lands! See Beautiful Coral Reefs! And Kill Them!
Something is killing the coral reefsóand if the present rate of extinction continues, 70 percent of all corals will be dead in 20 to 40 years. An ecological whodunit.
By Bradford Matsen
May/June 1998 Issue

Orphan Trade
How zoos play a part in Native Alaskan 'subsistence' hunts.
By Nancy Firor
September/October 1998 Issue

Resource Waste
The U.S. is far better at creating waste -- 1 million pounds per person per year -- than products.
By Paul Hawken
March/April 1997 Issue

Capital Gains
If we fully value natural resources, capitalism will have a better chance to live long and prosper.
By Paul Hawken
March/April 1997 Issue

Natural Capitalism
We can create new jobs, restore our environment, and promote social stability. The solutions are creative, practical, and profitable.
By Paul Hawken
March/April 1997 Issue

Hypercar This quiet, safe vehicle gets up to 200 miles per gallon.
By Paul Hawken
March/April 1997 Issue

Magic Carpet
How to make a profit by reusing waste.
By Paul Hawken
March/April 1997 Issue

Going Native
Ecotourism doesn't have to be a case of gullible travels.
By Leora Broydo
November/December 1996 Issue

There's No Going Back to Nature
We are not in -- nor about to be in -- a world with a small human population living simply and leaving nature alone. The future belongs to proactive environmentalists who use information and technology to make ecosystems.
By Walter Truett Anderson
September/October 1996 Issue

Truth in a Jar
Good things don't always need big packages.
By Leora Broydo
September/October 1996 Issue

Oh Soy Can You See?
Meat alternatives are a home run.
By Leora Broydo
July/August 1996 Issue

Splendor in the Trash
Forget about Home Depot, eco-savvy home decorators are heading to the junkyard.
By Leora Broydo
May/June 1996 Issue

Rainforest Shrimp
America has grown to love shrimp. But in Asia and Latin America, the shrimp industry threatens mangrove trees and coastal villages.
By Will Nixon

MotherEarth: Problems & possibilities 1995
Despite the apocalyptic terms that often frame the environmental debate, we believe there is hope, if sometimes only diverse glimmers, that grassroots energy and creativity can help us face our challenges.
March/April 1995 Issue

A Giant Spraying Sound
Since NAFTA, Mexican growers are spraying more toxic pesticides on fruits, vegetables--and workers.
By Esther Schrader
January/February 1995 Issue

A Lust for Gold
Today's multinational miners get Federal land for $5 an acre, strip it with ruthless efficiency, lace its streams with cyanide, and employ an army of lobbyists who call it "western tradition."
By Jessica Speart
January/February 1995 Issue

The Salmon Are Calling
The great wild fish that have filled our plates and our souls are dying. By learning to save them, we may save ourselves.
By Bradford Matsen
November/December 1994 Issue

The Cry of the Ocean
By Peter Steinhart
July/August 1994 Issue

Battle for the Deep
The Alaska fishery could be America's last great resource giveaway--and powerful companies are fighting for a piece of it.
By Hal Bernton
July/August 1994 Issue

The One that Got Away
Joe Brancaleone's lifelong friends jeer him at public meetings. But Gloucester's fish are gone, and he wants them back.
By Deborah Cramer
July/August 1994 Issue

Where are you Al?
Our "Earth in the Balance" Vice President is unable--or unwilling--to stop even as dangerous a project as the Ohio incinerator.
By L. J. Davis
November/December 1993 Issue

Firetrail
Are loggers behind the rash of fires in the West?
By Mike Weiss
March/April 1993 Issue

Toxic Ten
America's truant corporations
By David Weir and Priscilla Yamin
January/February 1993 Issue

The Green Knight
Gore proposes phasing out both the bureaucracies and the toxic industries they oversee.
By Craig Collins
January/February 1993 Issue

Cruising on the Ark of Taste
By pursuing the politics of pleasure, the Slow Food movement hopes to save rare species and delectables - and give the considered life a second chance.
By Michael Pollan
May/June 2003 Issue

Pandora's Pantry
In its rush to approve genetically engineered food, the government ignored warnings from its own scientists about threats to human health and the environment. Finally, the tough questions are being asked.
By Jon R. Luoma
January/February 2000 Issue

Fish or Foul?
Coming soon to a dinner table near you: DNA filet.
By Jon R. Luoma
March/April 2001 Issue

Meet A Potato
The potato has inspired several revolutions -- not all of them agricultural. So, next time you chomp on a french fry, show a little respect.
By Leah Shahum
March/April 1997 Issue

The New Range Wars
They come on your land and take what lies beneath. In Wyoming's coalbed methane country, it's the ranchers versus the wildcatters.
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
November/December 2002 Issue

Water for Profit
Contamination, riots, rate increases, scandals. From Atlanta to Manila, cities are confronting the true cost of water privatization.
By Jon R. Luoma
November/December 2002 Issue

Libby's Deadly Grace
W.R. Grace & Company knew all along that abestos from its Libby, Montana, mine was sickening workers and their families -- but said nothing.
By Maryanne Vollers & Andrea Barnett
May/June 2000 Issue

False Forests
What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation.
By Ted Williams
May/June 2000 Issue

One Roof at a Time
With no help from the Bush administration -- but plenty from Europe, Japan, New York, and California -- solar power is edging into the mainstream.
By Bill McKibben
November/December 2004 Issue

Hydrogen's Dirty Secret
President Bush promises that fuel-cell cars will be free of pollution. But if he has his way, the cars of tomorrow will run on hydrogen made from fossil fuels.
By Barry C. Lynn
May/June 2003 Issue

It's Easy Being Green
George W. Bush doesn't get it yet. But renewable energy is no longer the stuff of noble visions and pipe dreams: It's available, inexpensive, and increasingly -- normal.
By Bill McKibben
July/August 2002 Issue

Prodigal Sun
Solar energy was a rising star in the '70s -- until it was banished by the powers that be. Are we ready for its return?
By Arthur Allen
March/April 2000 Issue

The Brick Master of Kerala
Laurie Baker is fighting India's rush to resemble the West by making beautiful buildings out of sustainable materials -- recycled bottles, clamshells, and mud.
By Adam Hochschild
July/August 2000 Issue