Environment
Road Kill Meets Fashion
By Soli Salgado
One woman is revolutionizing the controversial fur industry, one accidental death at a time.
Measuring Radioactivity in the Environment
By Timothy Mousseau, ed. Helen Caldicott
26 years after Chornobyl, researchers found significant decreases in biodiversity in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, apparently directly correlated to the degree of radioactivity in the environment.
Cause and Effect: Residential Housing in Natural Environments
By Lincoln Bramwell
As residential housing developments turned away from the urban and suburban sprawl during the 1950s and 1960s, developments that emphasized landscape features became appealing to developers.
The Genesis of a Bird Rescue
By Michele Raffin
One injured dove leads to the inception of the bird rescue that became Pandemonium Aviaries, now one of the largest bird sanctuaries and rare breeding facilities in the world.
What’s Deadlier: Car Emissions or Car Crashes?
By Soli Salgado
Road transportation poses two fatal threats with a variety of statistics.
A Personal Quest for Jaguar Research and Preservation
By Alan Rabinowitz
Alan Rabinowitz tells his story of connecting with endangered big cats as a child and conducting jaguar research in hopes of saving the largest cat in the Americas from extinction.
Debunking Claims by Climate-Change Skeptics
By Seth B. Darling and Douglas L. Sisterson
Use scientific evidence to counter the argument by climate-change skeptics that global warming might have positive effects.
Modern Beauty in the Natural World
By Sandra Lubarsky
How the individual’s notion of beauty in the natural world is tied to the context it's perceived in.
Want to gain a fresh perspective? Read stories that matter? Feel optimistic about the future? It's all here! Utne Reader offers provocative writing from diverse perspectives, insightful analysis of art and media, down-to-earth news and in-depth coverage of eye-opening issues that affect your life.
Save Even More Money By Paying NOW!
Pay now with a credit card and take advantage of our earth-friendly automatic renewal savings plan. You save an additional $5 and get 4 issues of Utne Reader for only $40.00 (USA only).
Or Bill Me Later and pay just $45 for 4 issues of Utne Reader!
