Environment:
Marc van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist whose research in the Amazon has led to the discovery of five species of monkeys and a new primate genus. But precisely because of that work, Dr. van Roosmalen was recently sentenced to...
Posted on August 28, 2007 11:31 AM • 0 Comments •
China's environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party. And it...
Posted on August 27, 2007 12:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Stomachs and petrol tanks are for the first time in competition and farmers everywhere are asking themselves a novel question: am I planting food or energy? There is no single source for the revolution sweeping across every continent. But one...
Posted on August 27, 2007 12:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Ocean Beach's dreadlocked trustafarians and E -fueled hippy chicks have decamped for a multi-day bacchinalia in the desert or at least until the drugs run out. In recent years hipsters and stoners have taken their toll on Black Rock City....
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:03 PM • 7 Comments •
Brazilians focus on the body beautiful enlisting the help of skilled plastic surgeons and all manner of health an beauty products derived from the rainforest. Producers do not claim that those ingredients are better or healthier than those found in...
Posted on August 24, 2007 11:42 AM • 0 Comments •
Clinton, like many other famous figures who have thrown themselves into bettering conditions in Africa, is passionate about what he does here. His efforts bring both media attention and money. But assessing the long-term results of this effort is more...
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Posted on August 23, 2007 11:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Significant swaths of California's wilderness are being burnt to a crisp this Summer due to drought and scorching temperatures. The third-largest wildfire in modern state history showed no sign of slowing down, as hot and dry conditions helped sustain the...
Posted on August 21, 2007 11:32 AM • 0 Comments •
Reflecting a shift in priorities under the Democratic majority, Congress is moving to spend as much as $6.7 billion next fiscal year to combat global warming, an increase of nearly one-third from the current year. That is likely to set...
Posted on August 21, 2007 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Liberals claim to have learned one hard lesson from Karl Rove Republicans, and that's the importance of "framing" language. Call the estate tax the "death tax," and suddenly everybody hates the idea. So how do you reframe the notion of...
Posted on August 20, 2007 11:51 AM • 0 Comments •
Fred Berman has a new found appreciation for eating locally. He's seeing that awareness in his job of the past 16 months as Small Farms Program coordinator for the Washington State Department of Agriculture. As "farmbudsman," he's working to develop...
Posted on August 20, 2007 11:34 AM • 0 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
