Departments

Aggressive Optimism: Environmental Challenges Facing the New President

• Eco-Gadgets: Exploiting the Shame Meter
  Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
• To Save the Parks--Turn Off the TV!
  Patricia Zaradic
• Cap and Dividend, Not Trade: Making Polluters Pay
  Peter Barnes
• For Alternative Energy's Sake--Keep Oil Prices High
  Steven Kyle
• Green-Collar Jobs--The Future of the Global Workplace
  Jerome Ringo
• Obama's First 100 Days
  Shirley Ann Jackson

• View: The Truth about Trash

• Singing in the Rain (Forest)

• Branding Tap Water to Replace the Plastic Bottle

• Green Role Model: California Academy of Sciences

• Resources in Film and Online

• Your Idle Computer Could Help Calculate Global Warming

• Greening the Supply Chain

• Ecotravel: Migration Sightseeing--From Gray Whales to Butterflies

• Stock-Market Strategy Halts Fishing Collapse

• Organic Farms Say "WWOOF"

• You, Too, Can Be a Hyper-Miler

• Being Green: An Ecofriendly Guide to Surviving Winter

• New Intel Plant Saves the Air--And Money

• Buying Green: Products for Sustainable Living

• Biofuel Crops Could Also Cleanse Soil

 

Features

The U.S. Needs to Lead in Clean Tech
Steve Mirsky talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman on how green technology can save the world economy
By Steve Mirsky and Thomas L. Friedman

Can Nuclear Power Compete?
Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil-fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense
By Matthew L. Wald

Clean Cities and Dirty Coal Power--China's Energy Paradox
China is aggressively building cleaner cities and renewable power supplies, but the relentless expansion of dirty coal may suffocate those efforts. A firsthand look
By David Biello

Chicago's Plans to Go Green
Mayor Richard Daley has unveiled an aggressive plan to transform the old, gritty city. If he can pull it off, other cities might follow
By Josh Boak

Shark-Smitten Tourists Help Save Guadalupe's Great Whites
Ecotourism has become the unlikely protector of the unexpectedly endangered great white sharks
By Jim Cornfield

Carbon-Offset Cowboys Let Their Grass Grow
Ranchers in Montana are being paid by polluters to keep their grass unmowed
By Ashley Ahearn

Regrowing Borneo's Rainforest--Tree by Tree
To save orangutans, scientist Willie Smits is restoring a rain forest—and creating new livelihoods for the Indonesian families who help him
By Jane Braxton Little

Online Exclusives

In-Depth Report:
The Future of the Poles
Both the North and South poles are undergoing unprecedented changes as a result of man-made climate change. What does this mean for the region's wildlife and natural resources as countries make claims for territory?

Extreme Tech:
Turbine Rides Underwater Currents Like a Kite
New technology would enable turbine tethered to the seabed to harvest energy

In-Depth Report:
China and Environment
China struggles to reconcile its rapid growth with the health of its people and environment

News
Cylindrical Solar Cells Give a Whole New Meaning to Sunroof
Solyndra hopes to capture the wasted sunlight falling on roofs by making solar cells into cylinders rather than panels