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Making Deserts Bloom
Robert Leonard ReidEditor's Note: As politicans and CEOs persist in denying the reality of climate change and Californians face a dire water shortage, we found this July 1981 archival piece...
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Farewell, Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo GaleanoEditor's Note: Today we mourn the loss of Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), Uruguyan journalist, longtime Progressive columnist, and author, after a battle with lung cancer. Galeano was a...
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Gagging Over Global Climate Change
Ruth ConniffWelcome to Wisconsin, where April Fool’s Day lasts all year!How about Mike Huebsch, head of our state Public Service Commission, declaring that global warming is caused by volcanoes, not...
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The National Pollution Scandal
Gaylord A. NelsonThe founder of Earth Day, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, wrote this scathing essay on the scourge of pollution in 1967. On Earth Day's forty-fifth birthday, his warning that "the...
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The BP Oil Spill, Five Years Later
Andrew StelzerFive years ago on Monday, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the oil industry wrought havoc on the Gulf of Mexico when the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and...
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Ambivalence and Horror in Nepal
Amitabh PalMy mother was near the village school she runs about 100 miles south of the Nepal border in India when she noticed a strong tremor. She immediately had the building evacuated. When a second...
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Ask Dr. Science: Scott Walker Edition
Jud LounsburyI grew up in a small town in central Iowa and the soundtrack of that time would most certainly have to include my comedic hero, Dan Coffey, and the daily 90-second bit he used to do on NPR...
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The Green Energy Revolt
Jason MarkThis article appears in the current issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. Debbie Dooley is mad as hell. Since 2012, the fifty-six-year-old grandmother and former IT...
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Letter from California: Field Notes on a State in Drought
Jason MarkThis article appears in the forthcoming issue of our magazine, available digitally on May 18. This was the year without a winter. In January, not a single drop of rain fell in the San...
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“Consumed” Takes On GMOs
Ed RampellPhoto: "Consumed" Promotional Picture“Consumed” is an environmentally-themed movie featuring Zoe Lister-Jones as a single midwestern mom, waitress and student who discovers that genetically...
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Can We Save Ocean Fish?
David HelvargI respect my friend Sylvia Earle’s refusal to eat seafood, as well as the famed ocean scientist’s argument that no market hunting has ever been sustainable. Still, there’s nothing as...
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Mark Fiore The world, or at least the World of the Internets, is furious with the Minnesota dentist who stupidly killed Cecil the Lion. (How you shoot a huge lion with a tracking collar and claim to...
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The Spirit of Occupy is Alive: An Interview with Kalle Lasn
Submitted by Jake Whitney on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 4:29pmJake WhitneyEditor's Update: Kalle Lasn, editor of the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters is in the midst of planning a global Billion People...
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Rebuilding the World: An Interview with Lester Brown
Submitted by Amitabh Pal on Fri, 12/04/2015 - 10:47amAmitabh PalLester Brown is the oracle of environmentalism. Through his work over more than half a century, especially in the fifty-plus books he has...
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