Audubon
Pandora's Water Bottle
Heard about endocrine disruptors? They're in everything from skin moisturizers to skillets, from raincoats to water bottles. And they're wreaking havoc on living things… READ ARTICLE
The Last Great Wilderness
Most of us will never see the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So why shouldn't we drill for oil there? Susan McGrath travels to "the biological heart of the refuge" to unlock the mystery… READ ARTICLE
Cork Screwed
Check under the foil wrapper before you break open your next bottle of wine. No longer deemed low-class, synthetic and screw-top stoppers are replacing real cork—and threatening an entire ecosystem… READ ARTICLE
Galapagos Now
Charles Darwin, who visited these islands in 1835, based his theory of evolution on the riotous diversity he found. The diversity is still here, but so are alien species, tourists, and increasingly restive fishermen. Can the Galapagos ecosystem survive?… READ ARTICLE
Smithsonian
The Vanishing
Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan. Large vultures, vitally necessary and once numbering in the tens of millions, now face extinction. But why?… READ ARTICLE
Shoot-out at Little Galloo
Angry fishermen accuse the cormorant of ruining their livelihood and have taken the law into their own hands. But is the cormorant to blame?… READ ARTICLE
National Geographic Magazine
Attack of the Alien Invaders
All over the world, animals and plants that evolved somewhere else are turning up where they're not wanted… READ ARTICLE
The Wet Wild
Cowboys, caimans, and mud come together in the Pantanal, where modern pressures threaten the health of one of the world's largest wetlands… READ ARTICLE
The Household Environmentalist
Radon? Yes it's boring…
RADONZZZZZZZ. This is going to be a difficult column to write. The trouble is that the subject is so boring I keep drifting off as I do my research… DOWNLOAD PDF (448 KB)
Plant Amnesty's hall of pruning horrors
Seattleites have a reputation for being ever so civilized, with their lattes and their book groups and religious devotion to crossing only with the light and at the crosswalk… DOWNLOAD PDF (1.5 MB)
National Geographic Adventure
La Chiquitita takes Cuba
For weeks before I went biking in Cuba, I lay awake at night, fretting. It wasn't the 50-mile days over the Sierra del Rosano that had me worried. Nor was it… READ ARTICLE
Bark
