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environment
Hong Kong, World’s Shark Fin Hub, Sees Huge Drop in Infamous Trade
Hong Kong, which received roughly half of the world’s shark fin harvest last year, has seen a 30% drop in imports as a long-running environmental campaign begins to bite.
Hong Kong Marine Productions Association chairman Ricky
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EcocentricOil
Inside Win: A Non-Profit Site Wins a Pulitzer for Its Environmental Reporting
A scrappy indie website from Brooklyn wins a Pulitzer for its dogged reporting on a forgotten oil spill.
EcocentricGoing Green
The Great Drying Strikes Again
The drought gripping much of the U.S. may be a reprise of even worse ones the continent has suffered before
EcocentricFood
Why It Was Silly for the Beef Industry to Freak Out Over USDA’s “Meatless Monday” Newsletter
A USDA newsletter mentions Meatless Mondays. The beef industry gets upset. Why this is all a bit ridiculous.
EcocentricEnvironmentalism
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.
EcocentricPopulation
Access to Contraception Helps Save Lives—and the Planet
In too much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is bear a child. Every day, 800 women die from preventable causes while giving birth. Almost none of those women have to die—after all, 99% of maternal deaths …
EcocentricEnergy
Your Time 100 Energy and Environment Influencers
It’s that time of year again—and no, I don’t mean International Jugglers Day, or even worse, Newspaper Columnists Day. It’s the annual unveiling of the TIME 100 list, our roundup of the most interesting and influential people …
EcocentricPopulation
Population Studies: Birthrates Are Declining. For the Earth — and a Lot of People — That’s Not a Bad Thing
I worked in Japan for a year as a journalist for TIME in 2006 and ’07, and here’s what I realized: the Japanese do everything first. Camera phones, Zen Buddhism, little fuel-efficient cars, huge public debt, a stagnant economy, …
EcocentricPolitics
The Dark Side of Steve Jobs’s Dream
I missed the all-night, stop-the-presses TIME session last week that put together an amazing and entirely new issue to commemorate the death of Apple’s Steve Jobs. I don’t have much more to add, other than the fact that like so many other people, I found out the news on an Apple product and am writing this on another one. Outside …