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Summer 2007
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Mining operations like this one on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, work around the clock; this lonely stand of trees disappeared in less than a day.
Mountaintop removal -- the name says it all -- is the most ruthless method yet found to extract coal as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
Features
A tale of blind salamanders, endangered snails, and one man's underground crusade.
How a small farm town traded its dairy cows for renewable energy.
Discoveries about the impact of the environment on our DNA could revolutionize our concept of illness.
Manufacturing microchips takes a colossal amount of scarce water. But in a hypercompetitive industry, conservation may actually help the bottom line.
Scrambled Eggs Q & A: Troubled Waters Telling It on the Mountain The UN's Facelift Cleaner than What?What could be more geeky than the image of a birder checking species off a list? Maybe that same birder later, assiduously typing the list into a computer.
A historian explores the lost connections between the land, our health, and our afflictions.
So Yesterday, Yet Still Here Today Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
For a whole month, one writer practiced a kind of abstinence so she could better understand her own complicity in our throwaway culture. It wasn't easy.
A powerhouse economy is learning to lighten its carbon load.
FIELDWORK: A Legal Eagle Lands NRDC in the News
Wall Street sees global warming pollution as a risk for investors.
Chemical Reactions Wolf Pact Big Green Machines Whales Win a Big one