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A freshwater expert and author answers questions

What work do you do? I work through a creation of mine called the Global Water Policy Project to promote the protection of rivers and other freshwater ecosystems. My goal […]

Dispatch from the big annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washingto

Colleen Freeman is a policy analyst at Friends of the Earth-U.S. and Peter Bossard is policy director at International Rivers Network. They took part in discussions between environmental and other […]

Film Flam

Upcoming Climate-Change Disaster Movie Provokes Silliness “The Day After Tomorrow,” a big-budget climate-change disaster flick directed by Roland Emmerich (creator of such visionary fare as “Independence Day” and the 1998 […]

Capital Steps

Venture Capital Investment in Clean Technology Grows Clean tech is hot. Research and development of eco-friendly technologies in water purification, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, recycling, air quality, and renewable energy such […]

To Well in a Handbasket

Abandoned Oil Wells Vex Southern California Oil wells run dry, and when they do — as many have in Southern California — the looming question is, what do you do […]

Geoss in the Heouse

Countries Agree to Form Earth Observation Framework Delegates from 44 nations and 26 international groups agreed this weekend to form a global environmental observation system by 2014, to be called […]

The Fore Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Golf Courses Aren’t So Green Though the golf industry says it’s been striving to lighten its ecological impact, golf courses are increasingly flashpoints of environmental controversy. According to the Worldwatch […]

A Hard Act to Follow

Report Finds Endangered Species Act Failing Over the first two decades the U.S. Endangered Species Act was in effect, from 1973 to 1994, 114 species went extinct or missing, “sacrificed […]

All Wet

Bush Wetlands Initiative Less Ambitious Than It Appears Attempting to neutralize John Kerry’s criticisms of his environmental record, President Bush traveled on Earth Day to Maine, a crucial swing state, […]

Libia Grueso advocates for Afro-Colombians and their land

The Pacific Coast of Colombia, a narrow slice of jungle between the Andes and the ocean, is rich with plant and animal life. It’s also home to about a third […]