Trees to the Rescue

In laboratories around the country, scientists are working to alter the genetic working of trees in order to increase their ability to store carbon, absorb…

Presto Fresh Water

©Mammoth Water/Richael Young A new technology could make use of excess heat and at the same time produce millions of gallons of fresh water from…

PowerPoint Activism

In many instances, litigation has been the tool of choice for environmentalists seeking to halt everything from logging to subdivisions. But times are changing and…

Nature Undisturbed

  A Yellowstone gray wolf. ©Yellowstone National Park The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is broken. Indeed, it was born broken. Enacted in 1973, the act…

The Lasater Ranch

Shortgrass prairie, which once extended across vast stretches of the western Great Plains, is largely gone. A Nature Conservancy-owned ranch in Kansas and several National…

Lethal Light Trucks

A rise in seat belt usage, combined with campaigns against drunk driving, helped reduce highway fatalities in the United States by about 20 percent from…

Letters to the Editor

A proponent of wind power takes on Thomas Tanton's article from December, and Tanton replies.