In 2014 and 2015 the Methow Valley in Washington State experienced the largest wildfires in the state’s history.
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The Hanford Site in the United States was the home of the first full-scale plutonium reactor in the world. It produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste and is now the site of massive cleanup efforts.
The US Government begins importation of some Sami Reindeer Herders and their Reindeer–both native to Northern Scandinavia–to Alaska in an effort to teach the Inuit population to herd Reindeer as a source of income and sustenance.
After the World Bank provisions required the privatization of Bolivia’s water system in return for economic assistance, high water prices and the effective monopoly over water rights spurs residents to organize, mobilize, and combat the legislation.
In the United States the 1985 Farm Bill lead to the creation of a program called the Conservation Reserve Program. It allows farmers to enter into a rental contract in which they are paid for idling and reverting agricultural land to natural ecosystems for conservation purposes.
This study reviews the main changes of the vegetation and fauna in northern Portugal during the Holocene, using literature from palaeoecology, archaeology, history, writings from travellers and naturalists, maps of agriculture and forestry and expert consultation.
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.
This article considers Hegel’s account of the emergence of Absolute Spirit, weighs its advantages and disadvantages as an approach to human moral experience and as a strategic move for environmentalists, and concludes with a refinement of Darwinian humanism and a clarification of its implications for environmental ethics.
This article looks at the history of colonial forest policies in South India to argue that initially British destroyed most the accessible forests and used desiccationist fears to justify the colonial state’s monopolistic control over the forests.
In this article the author poses the question whether rationality can be the reason why humans deserve moral consideration and animals do not.