Economy
Save the African forests; be a butterfly farmer
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People in the Kakamega Forest in western Kenya have found a way to save their shrinking woodlands and make a living at the same time, all on the wings of a butterfly. Literally.
Economy
Beijing stinks! Deodorant cannons to the rescue
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“At night we all wake up coughing. Even when you are sleeping soundly, you can wake up coughing. Everyone opens their windows in the summer and there is that smell.”
Democracy & Civics
The Havasupai get their DNA back
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The Havasupai Tribe of Arizona, smarting from what they say was a mis-use of DNA samples taken by Arizona State University in the 1990s, have settled their dispute to the tune of $700,000.
Environment
A cleanup of trash (and bodies) in Everest’s Death Zone
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A team of 20 Nepalese Sherpas will work above 26,240 feet in the “Death Zone,” hoping to bring back five bodies and begin a cleanup of an estimated 10 tons of trash.
Environment
Icelandic animals are feeling the hurt
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Livestock, birds and other animals are enduring extreme hardship in southern Iceland, where the cloud of Eyjafjallajökull’s toxic volcanic ash threatens their very lives.
Democracy & Civics
Paraguay Amerindians get their day in court
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Seething members of the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community in Paraguay asserted before an international court this month that they were slowly being squeezed out of existence.
Featured
The 1906 S.F. Earthquake commemoration is … all wrong
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A San Francisco environmental historian says that because of Daylight Savings Time the annual Wreath Laying and Commemoration goes off one hour too early, and that it is “a major distortion of historical reality.”
Economy
Issues resolved, a spectacular new National Park for Canada
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The Canadian government and the region’s northern aboriginal people, Lutsel K’e, hammered out a framework agreement for a new National Park in the Northwest Territories, nearly completing a contentious process that began 41 years ago.
Democracy & Civics
His crime? Giving away water
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The mayor of a Turkish resort town has been acquitted of misconduct charges in connection with his program of giving away drinking water.
Environment
Aussies talk tough on shipping near reef
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In the wake of two troubling incidents regarding shipping near the Great Barrier Reef, including one in which a ship spilled oil when she ran hard aground, Australian officials delivered tough responses.