China

Drowning in Boxes: Is More Cardboard Recycling Really the Answer?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Amazon, box, boxes, brick, brick-and-mortar, cardboard, China, Christmas, Deloitte, holiday, mall, mortar, recycling, retail, shop, shopping, store, Target, Xmas

The cardboard you recycle likely makes a 12,000-mile, fossil-fuel-spewing loop at sea (to China and back) in its journey of rebirth…

Under Water

Interview: Jonathan White Explores The Science & Spirit of Ocean Tides

E The Environmental Magazine Arctic, China, energy, France, Indians, Inuit, Jonathan White, Kuna Yala, Mt. St. Michel, Normandy, ocean, Qiantang River, rights, Scotland, tidal, tidal resonance, tide, tides, wave, waves

In his new book Tides, author & conservationist Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides…

Reading List

The Last Savanna: A Writer’s Memory

Mike Bond Africa, author, book, China, Chinese, choice, choices, consumer, DNA, elephant, elephants, homeland, lion, Mike Bond, products, Savanna

Mike Bond wrote THE LAST SAVANNA because the loss of Africa, the loss of the magic savanna, was driving him crazy. It still does…

Protesting Apple working conditions in China

EarthTalk

Chinese Worker Exploitation Claims Persist for Apple

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Apple, Apple China, boycott, China, China Labor Watch, Fair Labor Association, Foxconn, Green America, manufacturing, protest, safety, standards, worker

Is Apple really doing everything it can about claims of Chinese worker exploitation at its suppliers like Foxconn and Pegatron in China?

Kota Layar ships out of Singapore. Credit: Andrew Priest, FlickrCC

Warming World

With TPP, There Goes The Neighborhood

Ethan Goffman 350.org, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Chevron, China, CITES, climate change, Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species, Ecuador, global warming, Greenpeace, Keystone XL, NAFTA, oil, pipeline, Sierra Club, tar sands, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Trans Pacific Partnership might be the worst news for the environment since NAFTA, and environmentalists are coming out against it…

EarthTalk

How Can We Save Elephants Around the World?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Africa, African, China, Chinese, CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, elephants, IFAW, International Fund for Animal Welfare, ivory, pachyderm, poachers, poaching, tusk, tusks, wildlife

Environmentalists are scurrying to save elephants and other iconic African wildlife from extinction in the face of increasing poaching across Africa.

Reading List

Blood of the Tiger

E The Environmental Magazine activism, activist, Blood of the Tiger, book, China, J.A. Mills, species extinction, wildlife

Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world’s rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires. Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever—from […]

EarthTalk

What is the Great Green Wall of China?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer carbon, China, climate change, desert, dust, Global Forest Resources Assessment, global warming, Gobi, Great Wall, Green Wall of China, reforestation, sequestration

Dear EarthTalk: What is the Great Green Wall of China? —Jacob Williston, Tempe, AZ Unlike the Great Wall of China, a 5,000-mile fortification dating back to the 7th century BC that separates northern China from the Mongolian steppe, the Great Green Wall of China — otherwise known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program — […]

Warming World

South Africa’s Fossil Fuel Folly

Blake Wilkins China, coal, energy, fossil fuel, hydro, National Research Institute for Rural Electrification, Practical Action, renewable, Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development, SHP, small hydro power, South Africa, Water Research Commission

South Africa’s slow uptake of sustainable, renewable energy resources, underlined by its dependency on poorly maintained, fossil-fueled power stations and protracted delays in commissioning two new coal-fired stations, has plunged the country in a series of nationwide blackouts. The move to renewable power, as the government struggled with the principle of loosening its grip on […]

Ground Pangolin at Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa. Credit: David Brossard

Wild & Wooly

Precious Pangolins

Lauren Kearney anteater, China, CITES, endangered, exotic wildlife trade, extinction, Humane Society International, pangolin, scaly, Tikki Hywood Trust

A pangolin, also known as a scaly anteater, is a burrowing mammal found throughout Africa and Asia. This shy and defensive creature spends most of the day feasting on insects using its sticky, 16 inch tongue. When threatened, pangolins will roll into a ball. While this may protect them from animal predators, it has quite […]

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