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What's Happening OnEarth

Leopold’s Land Ethic, Codified into Constitutional Law?

Comments (2) | September 29, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

Are We Really Going to Ride Fossil Fuels to the Bitter End?

Comments (1) | September 22, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

Unemployment Rates Could Fall, Says New Report

Comments (1) | September 20, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

Guest Blogger: Journalist Joseph D'Agnese on the Battle for Wind

Comments (0) | September 3, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

OnEarth's Fall 2008 issue, now live on the "read/write" Web.

Comments (2) | August 31, 2008
dispatches

California's Big Ranch Gets Rescued
About 60 miles north of Los Angeles lies a 269,000-acre working ranch, the largest contiguous private landholding in California.
Comments (2) | August 28, 2008
dispatches

China Opens
In an effort to assuage public discontent over environmental problems and to meet new targets for limiting pollution, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has put into effect national regulations allowing ordinary citizens access to national and local government environmental records.
Comments (0) | August 28, 2008
dispatches

Cleaning the Ports of L.A.
Imagine waking up and throwing open your bedroom window for a breath of fresh air, only to find black soot blanketing the sill and a yellow-brown haze hanging in the sky.
Comments (0) | August 28, 2008
feature stories

Delta Blues
In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, cargo ships sail inland, the soil burns, and rivers run backward. Surreal it may be, but the delta is a cornerstone of the California economy -- and now it's at the brink of collapse.
Comments (1) | August 28, 2008
fieldwork

Her Legal Crusade
In China, environmental crimes are rarely challenged. But one lawyer is setting new precedents.
Comments (1) | August 28, 2008