One of war's consequences -- and sometimes its cause -- is the destruction of natural resources.
Erin Patrick | Posted 05.25.2011
This summer I traveled to the Dadaab region in Kenya, where three refugee camps -- among the largest in the world -- host nearly 300,000 refugees.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011
Most of the country's trees had long since been chopped down for firewood. Much of the topsoil had washed away and when the rain got heavy, the bare hills and mountains became launch pads for floods.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011
Now with parts of Haiti in ruin and perhaps 200,000 people dead, the tree-planting and the soil sampling have halted. But the catastrophe makes it more critical than ever that Haiti be re-greened.
guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011
should you use coal, logs -- or even those briquettes made from waste newspaper that you sometimes see advertised in this very newspaper? ...
Erin Patrick | Posted 01.04.2012