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Tim Hirsch /
Nancy Harmon Jenkins /
Jane Kay /
Andrew Marshall /
Alan Weisman /
Jeff Danziger /
Balazs Gardi /
Philip Blenkinsop /
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Along the Amazon /
On a ramshackle riverboat in a tributary of the Amazon, a simple and compelling case is made for the world to pay up for protecting the rainforest:
“We are preserving the forests here. Over there, they finished off theirs and now don’t have what we do. They need for us to protect our trees to [...]
Endgame / Essays / Tim Hirsch
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The Last Fish /
No one knows when the annual bluefin tuna catch began on the island of Favignana, off the west coast of Sicily. It may have been before the first Phoenicians reached this part of the Mediterranean. But it ended in 2009. The regional government, facing the same economic problems that prevailed around the world, withdrew the [...]
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California Greening /
When Fran Pavley started her first term in the California Legislature in 2001, she didn’t attract much attention. She was just another freshman, a former middle-school teacher who had earned environmental credentials on the state Coastal Commission and the Air Resources Board. She represented car country, a district straddling Los Angeles and Ventura counties in [...]
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Banglageddon /
The mutiny begins at 9 on Tuesday morning. It is cool by Dhaka standards, yet high above the waking city the pariah kites already circle in the gathering heat. The streets are filling up with ill-tempered traffic, and soon they will be gridlocked. But Seven Mosques Road is empty. This is because at its southern [...]
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Endgame /
Last year, a couple of beers into a dinner of green corn tamales with a friend in Lerua’s, one of Tucson’s oldest Mexican restaurants, I committed a regrettable faux pas. Recently, I’d moved to New England after living most of my life in Arizona, and now returned here only once a year to teach. When [...]
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