Environment & Health

I went to visit Seattle's lame-duck mayor, a global leader on climate change who couldn't cut it with the locals.
| Fri Dec. 4, 2009 11:09 AM PST
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Bandits, then locals, broke the rules in self-governed marine reserve, marring what had been a heart-warming conservation success.
| Wed Dec. 2, 2009 3:59 AM PST
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The tiny Kauai Creeper bird is one of the animals most threatened by climate change.
| Wed Dec. 2, 2009 4:03 AM PST
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Taco Bell, an Iron Chef, guerrilla gourmets, and Ruth Reichl do battle over the food world's hottest new trend.
| Tue Dec. 1, 2009 4:00 AM PST

Continues Below

Continued From Above

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Meet the people of Tuvalu, the world's first climate refugees.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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Global warming coping mechanisms from Cameroon, Thailand, and the Philippines.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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Four Don Quixote-style climate change projects—and how likely they are to succeed.
| November/December 2009 Issue
For centuries we've displaced people to save nature. A huge project in Africa offers a chance to turn that around.
| Wed Nov. 25, 2009 3:00 AM PST
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Can we summon the people power of Berlin in 1989 and Seattle in 1999 to Copenhagen in 2009?
| Tue Nov. 24, 2009 2:24 PM PST
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There's a toxic bottom dweller lurking on your sushi menu.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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Marketers gave these former trash fish new names—and transformed them from gross to gourmet.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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Thanksgiving: A holiday filled with friends, family, and trash. Here's how to curb your waste.
| Mon Nov. 23, 2009 2:59 AM PST
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People with some of the world's smallest carbon footprints are being displaced—so their forests can become offsets.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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A new website allows you to offset your cheating by paying others to be faithful. Sort of like offsetting carbon.
| Thu Nov. 19, 2009 4:05 AM PST
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On the climate, we need more than rhetoric and excuses.
| Mon Nov. 16, 2009 10:58 AM PST
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How the Yes Men inspired a climate activist to derail a multimillion-dollar oil giveaway.
| Fri Nov. 13, 2009 4:00 AM PST
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Want proof of climate change's swiftness? It took mere months for Europe to freeze solid 12,800 years ago.
| Wed Nov. 11, 2009 5:58 PM PST
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California's Central Valley is dying of thirst.
| November/December 2009 Issue
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Who says conservation is impossible?
| Wed Nov. 4, 2009 3:02 PM PST
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How "undue optimism" created the vaccine shortage.
| Tue Nov. 3, 2009 2:38 PM PST

Photo Essays

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