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The article focuses on Vietnam's arrest and detention of prominent environmentalists involved in shaping policies related to a multibillion-dollar deal aimed at reducing the country's use of coal, raising concerns about human rights violations and the clampdown on activists.

The article focuses on the Supreme Court temporarily lifting a stay on the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 300-mile pipeline to carry natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia, which has been the subject of legal challenges from environmental groups.

The article profiles environmentalist, investor, and former U.S. vice president Al Gore, highlighting his sense of optimism regarding the future for investment in renewable energy sources and clime change mitigation. Topics addressed include Gore's excitement over the possibility of the widespread use of cheaper renewable energy technology, his schedule of delivering presentations on environmentalism and climate change, and reactions to his success in business.

The article discusses controversy surrounding environmental activist Majora Carter's support of grocery delivery service FreshDirect's attempts to establish operations in the South Bronx, New York City. Topics addressed include her past environmental activism in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx, her consulting firm The Majora Carter Group, and her reputation as an environmentalist and community advocate.

Comments on the conservation movement in the U.S. Views of advertising executives, environmentalists and cultural critics, who say conservation can become a movement large enough to influence world energy markets only if it becomes fashionable; How conservation was regarded in the 1970s, beginning with Earth Day and followed by a decline in energy use; Approach of President Jimmy Carter; Need for a wide range of options; Suggestion that environmentalists need to be less preachy; Background on the fight to make conservation part of the mainstream.

Focuses on photographer Chris Jordan, who makes art out of what others throw away by the millions. Comments of Jordan, who abandoned his career as a corporate lawyer; How his photographs criticize the excesses of consumerism by capturing it in minute detail; Examples of his portraits of industrial waste and consumer castoffs, including a pile of about 3,000 discarded cellphones; Problems making the picture of cellphones; Scale of Jordan's images; Influence of Andreas Gursky; Intention of heightening awareness about our collective environmental disregard.

Reports that several of the United States' most prominent environmentalists have gone public with the message that nuclear power should be reconsidered as a remedy for global warming. Reference to an article in "Technology Review," by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Comments made by Stewart Brand, a founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and the author of "Environmental Heresies"; Link between global warming and the use of fossil fuels; Report that environmentalists have come to view nuclear power as less of a threat than fuels like oil and coal, which produce carbon emissions; Statements made by other environmentalists, including Fred Krupp, Jonathan Lash and James Gustave Speth, regarding nuclear power; Efforts of Senator John McCain to offer significant financial incentives for the development of new nuclear technologies as part of a bill to regulate emissions.

Discusses how environmentalists from the group Riverkeeper are tracking pollutants in New York City's waterways. Observations of John Lipscomb, a boat captain who patrols the Hudson River for the group; Use of helicopters to search for pollution; Details of a helicopter ride over the city taken by Lipscomb, lawyer Basil Seggos, photographer Giles Ashford, and pilot Yossi Benbassat.

Two Chinese environmental advocates have won a prestigious award given to people doing work to improve living conditions in Asia. The two advocates, Yu Xiaogang and Ma Jun, were declared among the winners of 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award on Friday. A total of six people from across Asia were given the award this year, but only China had two winners. The announcement comes at a time when the Chinese government appears to be cracking down on the work of grassroots organizations, possibly because of the coming 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule. A well-known lawyers' group, Gongmeng, and a group that advocates for people infected with hepatitis B have been harassed or shut down in recent weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was one year ago that the environmental scientist showed up at Fred Slowman's door, deep in the heart of Navajo country, and warned that it was unsafe for him to stay there. The Slowman home, the same one-level cinderblock structure his family had lived in for nearly a half-century, was contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of uranium from the days of the cold war, when hundreds of uranium mines dotted the vast tribal land known as the Navajo Nation. The scientist advised Mr. Slowman, his wife and their two sons to move out until their home could be rebuilt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twenty years ago, a Brazilian environmental activist and rubber tapper was shot to death at his home in Acre State by ranchers opposed to his efforts to save the Amazon rain forest. After his death at age 44, Francisco Alves Mendes, better known as Chico, became a martyr for a concept that is only now gaining mainstream support here: that the value of a standing forest could be more than the value of a forest burned and logged in the name of development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOST marketers readily concede it: getting rid of direct mail -- or junk mail, as environmentalists and most recipients call it -- would save a lot of trees. But they are not about to render bulk mailings obsolete. ''The return on investment is just too high,'' said Jeffrey Horton, marketing supervisor for Kawasaki Motors Corporation U.S.A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs that Christian environmental activists in Virginia are making efforts to halt removal of mountaintops. Sharman Chapman-Crane of the Mennonite Central Committee Appalachia, along with her colleagues, is speaking out against mountaintop removal at different levels of government. According to Allen Johnson, Founder of Christians for the Mountains, the group is urging religious people to take up mountiantop removal "as a spiritual issue".

The article presents information on Elizabeth May, one of the most prominent environmentalists of Canada. Elizabeth migrated to Canada before thirty three years along with her family. At that time Elizabeth lived at Hartford, Connecticut and was an undergraduate student at Smith College. Suddenly, she along with her family moved to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada. Elizabeth founded the Sierra Club of Canada around 17 years back.

The article comments on environmentalism in the U.S. and the effort to counteract against global warming by environmentalists in the country.

Focuses on Clarence Petty who turns 100 this year and his advocacy efforts for the Adirondack wilderness. His opposition to development; Background on Petty's life in the Adirondacks; View of Carol W. LaGrasse of the Property Rights Foundation of America that he is a "radical preservationist"; Criticism of Petty for his views on park development; How environmentalists perceive Petty.

Reports the controversy generated by a thesis written by two environmentalists arguing that environmentalism is dead. Distribution of the paper, "The Death of the Environmentalism," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, at a meeting of foundation executives who finance the environmental establishment; Internet debate about the future of environmentalism due to the paper; Reactions of environmentalists to the paper's arguments.

Discusses the conservationists at Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglas, Queens, to preserve the bluebird, the official bird of New York State. Construction of four nest boxes; Disappearance of the birds from the city; Promotion of conservation and construction of bluebird trails; Fluctuation of the bird's population.

Discusses how plans by the Chinese government to build a new generation of dams are threatening the environment. China's growing energy needs; Environmental concerns over the Nu River hydroelectric project; Description of the Nu River region, which is remote but environmentally rich; Comments of scientists and villagers; Efforts of environmentalists to protect the river; Issue of exploitation; Clash between China's need for electricity and conservationists' priorities; Outlook.

Examines how rising temperatures in Alaska are curtailing the search for new oil deposits. Observation that a prolonged Arctic warming trend has diminished the number of days that vehicles have been permitted to explore and drill; The growing demand for oil; How the U.S. Department of Natural Resources must not only protect the land, but increase the extraction of oil and gas beneath it; Outlook for changing the rules for tundra travel; Role of Harry Bader, land manager for the oil-rich North Slope, in testing how to judge when vehicles can cross the North Slope without harming it; Comments of Bader; Objections of environmentalists.

Reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt to replace Christie Whitman as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Reactions of business, Republican Party groups and environmental activists; Remarks by Bush and Leavitt; Outlook for a politically charged battle over Bush's environmental record when Leavitt's Senate confirmation hearings are held; Views of Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.); Background on Leavitt; Leavitt's stance on land issues.

Discusses the attempts of environmentalists to preserve the land surrounding the Shawangunk Mountains, which are located outside of New York City. Cost of the land in which the environmentalists are trying to purchase; Reasons why this land is important to the environment and recreation; How the effort to protect the land is being led by the Open Space Institute; History of the region.

Discusses disappointment of actor Robert Redford with plans of United States President George W. Bush to combat energy problems in U.S. Views on ambitions of Redford to clean up environment; Symposium on global warming called 'Greenhouse Glasnost,' which was hosted by Redford, and which created more pollution than it cleaned up; View that highway safety seems less important than protecting environment to Redford.

Focuses on Sam Wyly, chairman of GreenMountain.com, which markets electricity from sources like solar power and wind energy. How Wyly also started Republicans for Clean Air, and supports United States presidential candidate George W. Bush in the 2000 elections; Controversies which have surrounded Wyly, his platforms, and his business ventures; His comments on politics, the company, and environmental issues.