I’M HEADING INTO THE SACRED Valley, to heart of potato country in the Peruvian highlands, in a truck with agronomist Jessica Villacorta. About an hour northeast of Cusco, at 3,000 meters above sea ...

Nearly 30 years after passage of the Clean Water Act (CWA), toxic industrial and municipal wastes are still being dumped into our rivers, streams, lakes and coastal waters. Congress intended the CWA ...

As the Rim Fire burnt its way into the record books this summer, hundreds of firefighters, as well as fire engines, airplanes, helicopters, and bulldozers, were used to try and bring the blaze under ...

On an uncharacteristically sunny October morning in Humboldt County, CA, park ranger and environmental educator Julie Clark maneuvers through towering redwood trees (sequoia sempervirens) along the ...

Show the slightest bit of concern for the environment and you get labeled a tree hugger. That’s what poor Newt Gingrich has been dealing with recently, as the other presidential candidates attack his ...

In Bridgeton, on the northern edge of St. Louis County, Missouri, a fire burns underground in a vast landfill, creeping closer and closer to a pile of radioactive waste from the World War II era that ...

THE FOREST BEHIND Bruce Anderson’s home in the rolling foothills south of Puget Sound in Washington is densely packed with enormous Douglas fir trees, the most commercially harvested tree species in ...

Remember how Big Soda spent $2.3 million during the 2014 elections in a desperate attempt to kill the City of Berkeley’s proposal to levy a modest tax on sugary drinks? The industry clearly understood ...

If sustainability starts at home, then so too do rules that determine just how sustainable you can be in your home life. Farmers can rely on their own crops and livestock for food, compost, clothing, ...

There was a time in my life when fly-fishing was my life. I was a true fish bum. My entire existence revolved around the “sport.” I fished more than 150 days a year and had an unhealthy obsession with ...

In a landmark victory for Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled in October that the government should never have granted licenses for two wind farms recently constructed ...

High above the Bolstad Fjord, perched on a scaffold set into the cliff-top hut, Helge Furnes watched with the intensity of an osprey for a monstrous salmon to enter his trap of netting laid out on the ...