Remembering Douglas Rainsford Tompkins, 1943-2015
Global Conservation Cause Loses a Giant to South American Kayaking Accident Douglas Rainsford Tompkins, 1943-2015 Doug Tompkins was Ohio-born and New York-bred... Read More
Dust in the Wind: Audacious ‘Desert Wheat’ Scheme Wilts in Sands of Saudi Arabia
With depletion of fossil aquifer used for irrigation, cultivating wheat in Saudi Arabia’s desert proves just another pipe dream. Flush with hundreds... Read More
Amazonia’s Trees Threatened
The Amazon River and Basin (Amazonia) need no introduction. The river itself is by far the biggest on Earth; in fact, its... Read More
Global Consumption Skyrocketing
One consequence of an enormous population Across four decades, the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute, founded in 1974 by the incomparable Lester Brown,... Read More
Earth on Edge of Losing its Coral Reefs?
The warming seas are cooking the coral (well actually, bleaching it) Healthy coral reefs support a mind-boggling variety of marine life. California’s... Read More
Fish Depletion Signals the Reality of Limits
If human population keeps growing, will we humans – or at least many of us – run out of food? No way,... Read More
Solitude Sought in Nature Threatened by Overpopulation and Overcrowding
Years before I became persona non grata in the Sierra Club for my criticism of its leadership’s refusal to acknowledge immigration’s environmental... Read More
Grading the ProPublica Series ‘Killing the Colorado’ on its Population Coverage
Not as Bad as Most, Not as Good as It Could and Should Be We’ve said it before and we’ll say it... Read More
Mother Nature Drugged with Our Pharmaceuticals
In 1996, pharmacologist and wildlife toxicologist Theo Colborn, Ph.D. (1927-2014) published her landmark book, Our Stolen Future, coauthored with Dianne Dumanoski and... Read More
Pollution Defiles Air Quality in California’s National Parks
I was so excited to be making my first-ever camping trip to Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. My wife and I would inhale... Read More