A NARROW ROAD cuts through Karadi Kallu Attur Kolli Haadi village in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, dividing farmland from the forested hills. This land once belonged to the Jenu Kuruba, an ...

Earth Island Institute is an international environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than seventy-five projects working in the areas of conservation, wildlife protection, climate change ...

WATER FROM THE night’s rain still clings to the mountains in the early morning. The grass is wet, and the ground is soft underfoot when the children begin to arrive at Pawmum Tharkla, an Indigenous, ...

Tucked into the hills outside Benevento, in the southern Italian region of Campania near Naples, Mirra Farm is defined by 70 hectares of rippling wheat fields. Previously specializing in broad-leafed ...

As the Rim Fire burnt its way into the record books this summer, hundreds of firefighters, as well as fire engines, airplanes, helicopters, and bulldozers, were used to try and bring the blaze under ...

There was a time in my life when fly-fishing was my life. I was a true fish bum. My entire existence revolved around the “sport.” I fished more than 150 days a year and had an unhealthy obsession with ...

THE FOREST BEHIND Bruce Anderson’s home in the rolling foothills south of Puget Sound in Washington is densely packed with enormous Douglas fir trees, the most commercially harvested tree species in ...

The use of prescribed fire — intentionally setting fires in forests and other ecosystems under planned circumstances — has received increased attention in California and elsewhere in recent years. On ...

R SCOT DUNCAN CAN TELL YOU how Alabama ranks among the 50 states for its number of imperiled species (third). He can say how much temperatures have already risen in the region (three degrees ...

On an uncharacteristically sunny October morning in Humboldt County, CA, park ranger and environmental educator Julie Clark maneuvers through towering redwood trees (sequoia sempervirens) along the ...

The sun is rising in the Indigenous reserve Provincial, in the northern Colombian province of La Guajira. The morning silence is broken by a pounding sound, emanating from a nearby mining pit just a ...

The use of the unconventional hydraulic fracturing method of oil and gas extraction has expanded energy infrastructure across parts of the nation that were previously untouched by machinery. Pristine ...