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I Dunno, Alaska

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) said on Friday his state would sue to try to prevent President Clinton’s road-building ban from applying to the Tongass and Chugach national forests. Knowles […]

A Wild Horn Section

The Cameroon government, World Wildlife Fund, and World Conservation Union (IUCN) are planning a rescue mission to save the last 10 Western black rhinos in Africa. Western black rhinos are […]

Norton's No Honeymooner

A list of the Interior Department advisory group assembled by President-elect Bush reads like a who’s who of representatives from the logging, mining, and oil drilling industries. Which isn’t surprising, […]

Maine woods emerge as ground zero for a grand land conservation experiment

Try this little-known fact on for size: Approximately one-quarter of New England — a region first settled four centuries ago — is almost entirely undeveloped. Never mind images of East […]

Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar

Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Monday, 8 Jan 2001 STELLENBOSCH, South Africa Timm, the leader of the project I am […]

West of Eden

That Can-do Spirit

Industry experts say Brazil will recycle about 80 percent of the 9.5 billion aluminum cans sold in the country in 2000, putting it on pace to match Japan’s trend-setting rate […]

Kicking a Two-pack-a-day Habit

The air in Mexico City — described by the U.N. in 1992 as the world’s worst — seems to be getting cleaner. Even as the number of cars and people […]

What's Mine Is Theirs, What's Theirs Is Mine

A coalition of Canadian and U.S. environmental groups submitted a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt yesterday, asking him to help protect the Taku River watershed from mining. The […]

The Rules of the Roadless

Pres. Clinton today moved to put almost a third of the country’s national forestland forever off-limits to road-building and commercial logging. The rule to protect 58.5 million acres of land […]