Wilderness & Resources

A recent scientific review and new study add to the mounting evidence that the chemical atrazine is harming animals and people far from the farms where the herbicide is used. (more…)...

  By Michael Kobori As global cotton prices continue to fluctuate significantly, and the effects of climate change threaten the 300 million people engaged in cotton farming around the world, a small group ...

By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that''s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world''s population is still unable to secure a ...

  Captain Charles Moore had an unexpected discovery in 1997. Traveling between Hawaii and California, Moore is said to be the first to document what became known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Writing...

  Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo joined other environmentalists at Occupy Wall Street in New York City on October 21, asking the crowd to join him in protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline on November 6 in W...

By Tom Zeller Jr. Rob Sisson, the president of the group Republicans for Environmental Protection, walks something of a lonely road these days. His group, founded in 1996, aims to restore what it calls the &qu...

By TreeLiving.com If nothing else, the recent droughts throughout the south and southwestern United States serve as a reminder of how precious commodity water is. Though we usually don’t give it a second ...

  By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska — The group promoting a massive gold-and-copper prospect near Alaska''s Bristol Bay said Tuesday they plan to press on with their work, despite passage of a b...

By Theron Jourdan The good news is that paper recovery rates continue to increase year after year in North America and Europe (with the exception of 2009-2010 in Europe due to a dip in production during the eco...

A new multi-year, multi-platform campaign hopes to raise awareness about the state of the world's oceans and focus on how they can be protected. The One World One Ocean campaign is an extended film, televi...