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Environmentalism
Little Greenies: Proof that Kids are Environmentalists
We are born with a natural concern for the environment—even if we don’t always hang onto it
Earth Daze: What Happened to the Environmental Movement?
Forty-three years ago, more than 20 million Americans took part in the first Earth Day. Today, the number is a bit less. Has the modern environmental movement lost its way?
Debating the New Environmentalism
Three of the top minds in environmentalism battle over whether the green movement needs to change.
Climate Change Equals Hot Summers. Case Closed.
An unusually explicit climate scientist drops the hedging and says what more and more people believe
Donald Trump vs. Environmentalists
Trump opened his $150 million golf course in Scotland Tuesday despite protests and the premiere of a documentary that condemns him.
Why Indonesia Still Can’t Say No to Palm Oil
If you’re eating a food that came in a wrapper while reading this, you probably eating palm oil — at least there’s a 50/50 chance you are. About half the packaged food found in a supermarket contains palm oil, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and a lot of that product comes from the lush archipelago of Indonesia.
In 2007, I …
Is High-Speed Evolution an Answer to Climate Change?
Maybe, like Al Gore, you believe we are our own worst enemies in battling climate change. You too might think politicians manufacture denial-rhetoric to appease special interest groups, that industries are stubborn and cowardly in their resistance to the facts, and that the media sees science as a playground for concocting deception …
The Tritium Peril From U.S. Nuke Plants: Should You Worry?
Tritium is one of those elements that just sounds bad. There’s something about the name that simply feels radioactive even before you know what the stuff is. That’s one of the reasons people have been so spooked by a new investigation the Associated Press conducted of Nuclear Regulatory Commission records, revealing that tritium has …
What Eric the Red and Modern Greens Have in Common
Environmentalists can be a gloomy bunch, but they’re also realistic. In the past several years, most have given up on the idea of stopping climate change altogether; there’s just too much greenhouse gas already in the system for that. Instead, the refrain has essentially been: adapt or die. Even as we try to curb future greenhouse-gas …