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Royal Caribbean's new "green" mega-liner still burns the world's dirtiest fuel. Can the cruise industry clean up its act? Table of Contents | Digital Edition
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Department: reviews

On This Earth, a Shadow Falls
By The Editors | Reviews
May 23, 2012: Nick Brandt left a career as a music video director to become a wildlife photographer, taking many haunting and majestic images of African megafauna. (0) Comments
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
By Sharman Apt Russell | Reviews
May 23, 2012: A review of David George Haskell's new book exploring how plants and animals adapt to changing seasons, which paints a vivid picture of biological processes. (0) Comments
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
By Jeff Turrentine | Reviews
May 23, 2012: A review of Taras Grescoe's new book on how good public transportation makes communities stronger. (0) Comments
Anatomy Lessons
By Elizabeth Kolbert | Reviews
May 23, 2012: The modern world lays siege to a miracle of evolutionary engineering. (0) Comments
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
By Jason Tanz | Reviews
April 30, 2012: The modern history of ExxonMobil is rife with international intrigue, political and economic misdirection, and a bullying insistence on profit above all else. A review of the new book by Steve Coll that exposes it all. (0) Comments
The Kunstlercast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler
By Scott Dodd | Reviews
March 27, 2012: A series of podcasts takes you on a trip to suburbia and explores how cars came to dominate America's communities. (0) Comments
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
By Emma Marris | Reviews
March 14, 2012: Desert cities are notorious for their water-guzzling tendencies, but could Phoenix break free from its brown reputaton? (5) Comments
Our Unhappy Meals
By Tom Philpott | Reviews
February 29, 2012: Who puts all that food on our table? An invisible army of millions of underpaid workers. (1) Comments
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
By The Editors | Reviews
February 22, 2012: OnEarth executive editor George Black tells the dramatic story of Yellowstone through the lives of the driven, ambitious, and often ruthless men who created the world's first national park (0) Comments
High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug In the Auto Industry
By Adam Aston | Reviews
December 13, 2011: A new book chronicles the technological challenges and environmental benefits of the emerging electric vehicle industry. (2) Comments