by Paul Mackie | June 3rd, 2010
When my wife and I took our honeymoon to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, we did it partly because we love adventure and partly because we figured it might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit a place that would drastically change in the ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | May 27th, 2010
The Washington Post has reported the latest estimates of animals dying from the oil volcano beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 400 dead birds and dozens of dolphins and some of the world's most endangered sea turtles have all perished. Experts claim this is really a ... Read More
by Emily Hall | May 25th, 2010
Not so long ago, my friend Alex and I itched for an adventure. We were both living in Panama at the time and she had a friend in Costa Rica. His family’s land was mountainous, remote, and in the middle of the rainforest. ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | May 19th, 2010
There are more important environmental issues to write about today, like three major new reports on climate change from the authoritative National Academies, but something else is on my mind. I was getting my haircut the other day when my stylist, Patrick, mentioned that he loves ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | May 12th, 2010
The Kerry-Lieberman bill, although given a slim chance of passing into law, was unveiled Wednesday and calls for a 17 percent cut in 2005 emission levels by 2020. While those numbers can be argued about ad nauseum as to whether 17 percent is enough to keep ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | May 5th, 2010
It was shocking to see BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, utter this quote in last weekend’s Financial Times: “It was not our accident, but it is our responsibility to clean it up.” Hayward blames Transocean, the operator of the rig for causing the release of an ... Read More
by Emily Hall | May 3rd, 2010
I have been getting this question a lot: what’s so bad about oil spills? It may sound like a silly question, but I find that most news organizations simply report on the latest development, not the background information needed to fully comprehend what a national disaster ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | April 28th, 2010
Over the past week, nearly 600,000 gallons of oil (pictured) have flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible oil rig. Even though that sounds bad, and the photos and videos look awful, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the ... Read More
by Paul Mackie | April 21st, 2010
Sting, Jimmy Cliff, and Passion Pit will lead the musical portion of this year's 40th anniversary of Earth Day on the Mall in Washington DC. Although that should be a pretty good show, and potentially an historic event, whether or not I attend may depend ... Read More
by Emily Hall | April 1st, 2010
I experienced the aftereffects of my very first sandstorm while in Shanghai last week. The storm was thought to have originated in Mongolia and the Ningxia Hui regions. These regions have been subjected to substantial deforestation and harmful agricultural practices. One example ... Read More
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