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The Last Orca

Scientist Eva Saulitis has dedicated her life to a vanishing group of whales that survived the Exxon Valdez spill but is now nearly extinct. Read>> Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
Gene-Spliced Salmon, Coming Soon to a Plate Near You?
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April 26, 2013: The FDA says a fast-growing genetically modified fish is no threat to the environment. It would be nice to see the proof.
Pretty Poison
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February 27, 2013: Food technology has transformed the contemporary diet in strange and scary ways.
Eat the City
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September 12, 2012: A new book dives into the history of New York through the stomachs of its people.
Moving the Goalposts
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February 24, 2012: Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli has taken the energy-saving ball and run with it.
It's Just Your Trash Talkin'
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December 7, 2011: What if our garbage system were smart enough to inform waste collectors, recyclers, and resellers what we've just tossed into it? We may be closer than you think.
The Constant Gardeners
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November 28, 2011: Faced with increasing drought and desertification, Africans are focusing on a new farming frontier: the cities.
FoodCorps Founders Youngest Ever Recipients of Heinz Award
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September 29, 2011: This month, the Heinz Family Foundation announced the recipients of its 17th annual Heinz Awards. Among the honorees are Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, the co-founders of FoodCorps, highlighted by OnEarth in its fall issue.In... read more >
Virginia on Their Minds
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August 24, 2011: On the debut CD from Driftwood Fire, a duo with day jobs in the environmental field, musings about relationships intermingle with meditations on coal mines.
Consider the Seas
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August 24, 2011: A scuba-certified Michigan native looks out for the world’s waters, and the people who depend on them.
Ripe Reading: Barry Estabrook's Tomatoland
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July 7, 2011: Read an excerpt from Tomatoland here: "Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck"In case you haven’t already, check out Dwight Garner’s rave review of Barry Estabrook’s Tomatoland, in yesterday’s New York Times. Barry and I worked... read more >
Voice of the People
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May 25, 2011: We think of climate change as an environmental issue. But if those most responsible differ from those most affected, isn’t it a human rights question as well?
Haiti Sanitation Pioneer Wins Emerging Explorer Award
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May 18, 2011: Yesterday National Geographic announced its 2011 class of Emerging Explorers, 14 "visionary young trailblazers" who are breaking new boundaries in "discovery, adventure, and global problem-solving." Among those selected was... read more >
Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
Jocelyn Zuckerman is OnEarth's former articles editor and the former executive editor of Whole Living and deputy editor of Gourmet, where she won a James Beard Award for feature writing in 2002. She is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia... More
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