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The Day I Hit the Brakes
What if you stopped driving? Not bought a hybrid, or carpooled, or kept your tires inflated. Just stopped. Forever. One man did -- and lived to tell the tale.
Comments (1) | August 26, 2009
Make Way for the Movable Beast
Elephants and lions used to roam the Great Plains, and some scientists would like to put them back. But can we really hope to restore the world to its "original" state?
Comments (0) | May 28, 2009
The Buried Treasure in My Backyard
All in all, a narrow escape.
Comments (1) | February 27, 2009
Why the Planet Needs a Free Press
What do the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the cyclone in Burma, global warming, and freedom of the press have in common? Just ask Mikhail Gorbachev.
Comments (3) | December 1, 2008
Welcome to My Paperless World
Mr. Uhlik . . . has scanned about 100 of his reference books to try to make his home library digital and searchable. Because he wants to keep the house nearly paper-free, most of his remaining 1,000 books are in a shed. He occasionally pays his children to help scan them.—New York Times, February 10, 2008
Comments (1) | August 28, 2008
Brief Encounter On The Savanna
On the African savanna, one woman goes eyeball-to-eyeball with a curious bull elephant and wonders at the earth's endless varieties of self-expression.
Comments (0) | May 28, 2008
Time To Be Unfaithful to Old Faithful
What are we prepared to give up? The reality is that we have to accept some major trade-offs here. The situation is too grim, too urgent, to duck them.
Comments (2) | February 29, 2008
Better to Have Loved and Lost?
How much of their engagement with the natural world is to be a farewell tour, a litany of the last, and how much a celebration of what is?
Comments (1) | December 1, 2007
Africa's Next Green Revolution
The world's billion and a half poorest people -- the quarter of humanity malnourished to the point of brain damage and deformity -- are mostly rural and live on mostly arid lands. Global warming will increase the stock of such lands, especially in Africa.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
Flying the High-Tech Skies
Birdwatching used to be seen as the ultimate geeky pastime. But combine it with new online technologies and it can reveal new truths about how our world is stitched together.
Comments (0) | June 1, 2007