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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Show the slightest bit of concern for the environment and you get labeled a tree hugger. That’s what poor Newt Gingrich has been dealing with recently, as the other presidential candidates attack his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The environmental community is engaged in a deeply important conversation about equity. It holds great promise for a more inclusive, diverse, and powerful movement — one that is progressing toward an ...

In the 1970s, in the spirit of back-to-the-land movements and intentional communities, a group of lesbian separatists in the United States decided to remove themselves from a society based on ...

Find more of our Covid-19 coverage. ETHNOS360, AN EVANGELICAL Christian missionary group, is embarking on a controversial new project, just as the coronavirus begins spreading widely in Brazil. The ...

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 invaders began arriving in Southern California half a century ago. They lurk in ponds, slower streams, and creeks in the Santa Monica Mountains, prevailing over all the watershed area. A kind of ...

KENYA’S MAASAI MARA reserve is internationally recognized as the home of the wildebeest migration. This spectacular phenomenon attracts thousands of guests each season, as they witness an epic ...