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World Watch articles from January 1997
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World Watch archives from January 1997
Seeing the forest through the trees. (forest conservation)(Editorial)
January 1, 1997... I live in a county near Washington, D.C. that is still partially covered with what experts call "temperate broadleaf/mixed forest.' As I write, I am sitting by a window overlooking the Occoquan River, which flows into the Potomac, and ultimately...
Mammals in global decline.
January 1, 1997... Nearly one-fourth of the world's known mammal species are threatened with extinction, according to a recent study compiled by the IUCN-World Conservation Union, which suggests that earlier estimates of the number of endangered species may have...
Most forests have no protection.
January 1, 1997... A map of the world's forests, ten years in the making, has been produced by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Bringing together more detailed maps and digital files from over 80 sources, the new map...
Climate change and storm damage: the insurance costs keep rising.
January 1, 1997... In the article "Storm Warnings," in our November/December 1994 issue, we noted a striking development in the escalating debate over global climate change: the growing concern of the insurance industry.
By the time we ran that story, many...
Chiapas: an uprising born of despair. (Mexican state)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1997... In Mexico, as in many developing societies, millions of people are trapped in a crucible of poverty, poisoned environments, and violent political repression. The Zapatista revolt shows why the fate of such people has become a pressing political...
After the deluge: the changing worldview. (containing the effects of the Pacific Northwest's 'extractive' industries)
January 1, 1997... In the November/December WORLD*WATCH, Alan Durning described six waves of "extractive" industry that swept through the Pacific Northwest region of North America over the past two centuries. The Northwest's history, we noted, has been a microcosm...
The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis.
January 1, 1997... In December of 1995, just one month after the Nigerian government executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists (see my article, "Dying for Oil," in the May/June 1996 issue), I attended a lecture on foreign policy in Washington, D.C.,...