Topic - Activism, page 5

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For Iranian Villagers, A Dam Uproots a Rural Way of Life

The free-flowing Baker River in Chile's Patagonia region. Permits for a major hydroelectric project on the waterway were revoked in 2014 amid protests.

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time

By Jens Benöhr and Patrick J. Lynch

The 3,122-megawatt Civaux Nuclear Power Plant in France, which opened in 1997.

Opinion

Why Nuclear Power Must Be Part of the Energy Solution

By Richard Rhodes

Do Conservation Strategies Need to Be More Compassionate?

By Brandon Keim

Wildlife

Coyote Carnage: The Gruesome Truth about Wildlife Killing Contests

By Ted Williams

The previously undamned Vjosa River leaves vast gravel deposits along its banks in Albania as it winds its way to the Adriatic Sea.

Conservation

A Balkan Dam Boom Imperils Europe’s Wildest Rivers

By Paul Hockenos

Flared natural gas is burned off at a processing plant in Garden City, Texas.

Opinion

How Climate Activists Failed to Make Clear the Problem with Natural Gas

By Bill McKibben

Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument.

Opinion

From Utah’s Red Rock Desert, A Call for Protecting Our Public Lands

By Terry Tempest Williams

President Xi Jinping announced an aggressive environmental agenda at the Communist Party Congress last month.

As It Looks to Go Green, China Keeps a Tight Lid on Dissent

By Michael Standaert

A mining operation in Surigao del Norte, a province in the Philippines.

Interview

How an Activist Minister in Philippines Took On the Mining Barons

By Fred Pearce

Nonhle Mbuthuma, leader of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, which opposes a proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

A Death in Pondoland

How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast

By Fred Pearce

Supporters of Bill Kayong outside the court at the trial of three men charged in his murder.

Murder in Malaysia

How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life

By Fred Pearce

A shrine to Berta Cáceres in La Esperanza, Honduras.

Firing Line

In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business

By Fred Pearce

With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight?

By Bill McKibben

Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland in the Amazon rainforest.

The Legacy of the Man Who Changed Our View of Nature

By Diane Toomey

Protesters gathered on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to contest the building of a pipeline near Cannonball, North Dakota.

Activism

At Standing Rock, A Battle Over Fossil Fuels and Land

By Katherine Bagley

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An Amazon Tribe’s Deadly Fight To Save Its Land From Logging

By Adam Spencer

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After Denial: How People React to the Hard Reality of Climate Change

By Bill Finnegan

Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival

Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests. In addition to the environmental benefits, these greening initiatives may help catalyze an economic recovery.

By Winifred Bird

Activism

Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science Positions?

By Fred Pearce

As Alberta’s Tar Sands Boom, Foes Target Project’s Lifelines

Exploiting North America’s largest oil deposit has destroyed vast stretches of Canada's boreal forest, arousing the ire of those opposed to this massive development of fossil fuels. Now those opponents are battling the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pass through environmentally sensitive Western lands as it moves the oil to market.

By Jim Robbins