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Mah-agony

No, it’s not an anti-abortion campaign: This Operation Rescue is an attempt to save Brazil’s mahogany trees from the chainsaw. The nation has launched a “war” to recover an estimated […]

Wolfing It Up

Maybe it’s Manifest Destiny — or maybe it’s just the instinct of all creatures to return to their home. Whatever the reason, the gray wolf, once exterminated from Northern California […]

Elizabeth Grossman reviews Wild Nights by Anne Matthews

Say "New York City" and wildlife is not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet despite nearly 400 years of fast and furious city life, the Big Apple is home to a world of flora and fauna that goes far beyond sidewalk planters and pampered pets. As the grass pushing up in cracked cement sidewalks reminds us, nature has a tenacious way of claiming the interstices of the urban landscape. It is this unruly, abundant, and often overlooked universe that Anne Matthews explores in her charming and perspicacious new book, Wild Nights.

That’s Some Good Coffee

  Re: Ashley Parkinson, Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign Dear Editor: Ashley Parkinson’s column has inspired me, my wife, and a friend to place our first-ever order for shade-grown coffee. After […]

Slash-and-Burn Budget

Okay, it’s predictable, but it’s still a bummer: President Bush announced today that he will seek sharp budget cuts in environmental initiatives and dozens of other domestic programs for the […]

Charles Stahler, Vegetarian Resource Group

Charles Stahler is codirector of the Vegetarian Resource Group, an organization that works with businesses, schools, and consumers to provide information about and advocate for vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Monday, […]

12-Step Salmon Recovery

All Wet

For almost a decade, developers have been required by federal law to create 1.78 acres of wetlands for every acre they destroy. Sounds great, but a new study by Washington […]

Salt of the Earth

Tim Salt, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, has been reassigned from his key post refereeing land-use disputes in the California desert, in a move environmentalists […]

Asthma: World Turns

For the first time, researchers have concluded that smog can cause asthma, rather than just aggravate it. In the 10-year study, being published in the British journal Lancet, investigators followed […]