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Gardeners of the Grasslands
Hail the marvellous Yak! A personal viewpoint on why yaks are important for fostering healthy grassland ecosystems on the Tibetan plateau— ZIMOV's ARK: For more than 20 years, maverick Russian...

Dam lies, Broken promises
How China’s Draconian megadams are causing the slow strangulation of Tibet’s mighty rivers In April 2019, a colossal new project, Lawa Megadam, was given the green light by Chinese authorities....

Nepal’s Last Wild River
The Karnali in western Nepal is the nation’s longest river. It flows gloriously free for now, to the benefit of rafting tourism and the people and wild animals that depend...

Darwin, Guns and School Safety
Darwin firmly established that no species can survive if it does not ensure that its offspring reach reproductive adulthood. Where are the priorities of the richest nation on Earth when...

Why Business Should Support Regulation
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.” – Native American Saying,...

Straws Upon Request Makes Sense and Cents
New legislation (AB 1884) proposed by California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon to decrease plastic pollution by requiring restaurants to offer plastic straws only upon request is facing pushback. And...

And I Thought the EPA Was There to Protect Me...
I owe a debt of gratitude to my friend, investigative reporter Marcus Stern. Thanks to his recently published article on Weather.com, I believe I finally have the necessary insight into...

It's About Damn Time
Men may take credit for conquering the frontier but women make it livable. We are now zealously engaged in a new frontier of discovery in technology, economic entrepreneurialism, globalism and...

It Can Happen Here & 2℃
The importance of 2℃ is difficult for the average person to see, but 2℃ was established as the point where normal economics ends and survival economics takes over. Most Americans...

What Is Driving Change?
Before we can address sustainable development we must first look at what is driving change. Just what are the powerful, interconnected trends that transform how we are altering the natural...

Trump's Other Agent of Ecocide
Should we conserve American wilderness and cultural sites, or bulldoze trees, lop off mountaintops and deface areas of spiritual and ancestral heritage to benefit extractive industries? The fiery, never-ending debate...

Instagram and Nature's Demise
After selfies and food porn, nature shots -- especially those of a lone hiker staring wistfully at a sun-drenched landscape -- just might be the most popular genre of photography...