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Let's say you're in court. The judge walks in; all rise. The opposing attorney approaches the bench and hands his honor a fat wad of bills. The judge stuffs them [...]

It was the Northern Rockies version of Arafat and shaking hands on the White House steps: an 'ecosystem protection summit' in Missoula, Montana, called last December 5 to broker a [...]

An upstart party pitches camp on the Demos' front lawn. For the past 30 years, environmentalist voters have had little choice but to hitch their fortunes to the Democratic Party. [...]

Alaska's governor thinks big--but a wild and pristine state is the last thing on his mind. Remember the good old days--back before environmental impact reports, endangered species acts, and global-warming [...]

Annoy a dinosaur and it can turn on you. That's what San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network learned after a year of targeting Boise Cascade for 'predatory logging practices' in endangered [...]

A better way at the ballot box Last November's election had the unfortunate effect of creating a rift between environmentalist supporters of Al Gore and those of Ralph Nader. With [...]

Vladimir Putin finds a new class enemy in environmentalism Imagine that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service were abolished, their functions folded into the Commerce Department, and that [...]

This November all three branches of government are up for grabs. We could win this time. Here it is, the bright new millennium, but many environmentalists are sunk in gloom. [...]

In the past, environmentalists and union members have often been at odds, with some unions seeing environmental laws as a threat to jobs, and some conservationists blaming workers for their [...]

'November 3, 2004: George W. Bush was returned to the White House for another four years after Green Party candidate Ralph Nader drew off enough votes from the Democratic challenger [...]

DESPITE WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR, turmoil in the Middle East, and energy crises at home, missing from the national dialogue has been talk of 'conservation,' let alone personal sacrifice. [...]

He is, says the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 'the lawmaker environmentalists love to hate.' The former leader of the conservative southern Democrats known as the 'Blue Dogs' (he switched parties last [...]

Farmers face a bumper crop of troubles. Family farms continue to be squeezed out by agribusiness. The chemical 'inputs' recommended by county agricultural-extension agents have poisoned the groundwater, and officially [...]

National parks in the United States are being held hostage by an armed gang--the National Rifle Association. If the NRA has its way, there will never be another national park [...]

Counterrevolution in the Rockies: The timber industry flexes its muscle. Finally, the reformers go too far. Meeting in secret, hardline defenders of the old order scheme to preserve the discredited [...]

It didn't take long for freelance photographer Subhankar Banerjee to go from the top of the world to the basement. This spring, the Smithsonian Institution was about to open a [...]