Wilderness

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...

While I believe in a global moratorium on commercial shark fishing, I'm opposed to anthropomorphizing sharks as sleek but harmless swimming buddies.

For the first time, the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest, and Public Lands will consider a bill designed to protect millions of acres of spectacular Utah lands as wilderness.

"The national parks are the first time in human history that land has been set aside -- not for kings or noblemen or the very rich -- but for everybody, and for all time," Burns said.

When Roosevelt preserved a natural wonder or habitat, he was accused of being a socialist. The same battles are still being waged against the same forces and with the same terminology.

Places I viewed as symbols of this so-called Promised Land have disappeared into clear cuts, drilling fields, and open-pit mines. What do our children inherit from this irretrievable loss? Pictures of how it used to be?

While it might be accurate that there would not be an ecologically significant impact on Cumberland Island because of motor tours, there will most definitely be a significant impact on the experience.

$3 million to endow a research station in perpetuity, to secure the continued flow of knowledge and to rest easy that passionate people will be around to advocate for many voiceless species? That's the bargain of the century.

By paying more attention to how we shop and what we buy, we can make a difference for the planet.

America is on the verge of a renewable energy gold rush -- hundreds of applications have been filed for wind and solar projects on public lands. I think this is long overdue.

WASHINGTON — In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderne...

Deforestation, chemical pollution in the world's oceans, biological diversity, species extinction, and greenhouse gas emissions are detrimental to life on Earth as we know it.

This Friday, 110,000 acres of Utah wild lands go on the auction block, to be sold to the highest bidders -- a last-ditch effort by a corrupt administration to further enrich its friends in the dirty fuels business.