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If you don't have anything good to say about fruits and vegetables, friends, you had better not say anything at all, or else the produce industry will sue you for [...]

Until recently, most vegetarian cookery in this country has suffered from meat envy, depending upon vast amounts of cheese and butterfat (or worse yet, quivering lumps of soy product) to [...]

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 [...]

Unfortunately, Liam does not mention his fear of heights to anyone until we reach the summit. Perhaps he wasn't aware of it himself, having never been higher than a Dublin [...]

The central tactical issue dividing the U.S. environmental movement is the question of compromise. When should it be sought, and when should one risk everything either to win it all [...]

The Faeroe Islands are not for the faint of stomach. For starters, the ferry that connects this grass-covered rockpile to Norway, Scotland, and Iceland was built for the placid Baltic, [...]

If you had a billion dollars. would you rather save thousands of acres of glorious Alaskan coastal forest from clearcutting, or finance a perpetual bureaucracy? The trustees for the billion [...]

There was no question that the guys in the airport lounge were heading for Montana too, what with their cowboy hats, camouflage suits, and camouflage backpacks. (One was even wearing [...]

Alyeska plugs a leaky pipeline with its own private FBI Oil-industry gadfly Charles Hamel was sitting in Fletcher's Bar in Anchorage late one night when a 'lovely young lady' attracted [...]

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 [...]

The article offers news briefs related to the environment. The topics include the first floating wind farm Hywind, which begins operation in Scotland, a study published in the Journal "Lancet," which revealed that pollution led to 9 million premature deaths and the decision by Syria to sign the Paris climate accord.

I'm a senior editor at Sierra and a longtime roadie. Our bicycle category manager, John Kodin, is a lifelong cyclist and Master D USCF racer who logs 12,000 miles a [...]

The article focuses on news briefs related to environmental issues including a Chinese energy firm's plan to construct 100 solar farms, Sweden's commitment to carbon neutrality and decline in the sperm count and quality among men in the U.S., Europe and Australia in the last 40 years. It also refers to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

The article presents the author's views on the efforts of Denmark to become free of fossil fuels by 2050. He states that Demnark has pledged commitment to renewable energy in late 1990s and has implemented numerous measures to achieve it. These measures include wide bike lanes that are segregated from parked cars and motorized traffic, wind turbines, requirement for firms to use renewable energy at their factories.

San Francisco's board of supervisors has okayed $2 million to study the feasibility of harnessing the tides rushing through the Golden Gate. The water could generate 2,000 megawatts, twice as [...]

Televised images of military Humvees rumbling over the Iraqi desert have apparently increased the machismo of owners of their civilian counterpart, the Hummer. Rather than meekly park their three-ton, 11-mile-per-gallon [...]

What's in a name? Big bucks, according to some Republicans in the Massachusetts legislature, who wanted to sell naming rights to the state's parks, forests, and recreation areas to the [...]

Efficiency Vermont is a new kind of utility. It has no nuclear reactors, no coal-burning plants, no dams, yet in the last three years it's generated nearly 100,000 megawatt-hours in [...]

Some 7 million acres of drought-parched western states went up in flames last summer, killing 23 firefighters and burning more than 800 homes. Colorado was one of the worst-hit states, [...]

Most of the hundreds of thousands of adventure travelers who trek through Nepal each year take along basic medical supplies. Idaho resident Janice Belson is trying to persuade them to [...]

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 [...]

SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES Christopher Swain is the Columbia River's first anadromous human. The 35-year-old Portlander is swimming the entire 1,243-mile length of the river--through Class-IV rapids, hundreds of miles [...]

This spring, just as the issue of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling came up again in Congress, government researchers announced their discovery that the region plays [...]

While our elected officials waffle about global warming, somebody's got to do something--and that somebody can be you. Here are the ten biggest energy-saving steps you and your family can [...]

Renewable energy is like your beautiful and talented best friend who can't get a date. Even though the cost of wind power has dropped by almost 90 percent over the [...]

The article offers the author's insights on the exportation of natural gas, oil and coal of the U.S. and its association to the issue of climate change. He states that the International Energy Association predicts that by 2017 the U.S. can surpass Saudi Arabia as the largest oil producer worldwide. He also challenges U.S. President Barack Obama on requiring the U.S. federal agencies to exercise their responsibility on climate change.

A visit with Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns, who came to Kamchatka to prove that Ursus horribilis can be a cream puff if you talk to him nicely. Luckily the [...]

At the same time Rocky Mountain National Park is trying to ban commercial helicopter flights into backcountry areas, it is approving chopper transport for tenderfoot government workers. For the past [...]

Sierra Club members in Utah are puzzling over a pamphlet called 'How Parents Can Help Children Live Marijuana Free' by Gerald Smith, director of the criminology program at the University [...]

Activist's How-To I first met Ric Careless in 1992 in the midst of his campaign to save the wild Tatshenshini River from what he called 'one of the most dangerous [...]

Given that the 104th Congress is the most anti-wilderness Capitol Hill delegation in memory, choosing its worst members is no easy task. According to the League of Conservation Voters, which […]

ANDREA SEASTRAND The spectacular central California coast region suffered a major disaster in 1969 when a catastrophic oil spill spread across the Santa Barbara Channel. In 1994 in inflicted disaster [...]

Most of the anti-environmental zealots spotlighted as 'ecothugs' in this column thus far have objected, claiming that they are, in fact, misunderstood nature lovers. No such quibble is likely to [...]

When Don Young (R-Alaska) went looking for help in dismantling the Endangered Species Act, he passed right by moderate Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), whose subcommittee would normally have handled the matter. [...]

The competition is stiff these days, but the hands-down winner of Sierra's new James Watt Act-Alike contest is James Hansen, Republican representative from Utah. While not as outwardly loopy as [...]