Earth Island Journal articles from March 1998

Earth Island Journal archives from March 1998

Call of the wild for Colorado's rivers. (fish stocking)
March 22, 1998... Each year prior to 1996, more than 15 million non-native rainbow, brook and brown trout, and non-native sub-species of cutthroat trout, were stocked in Colorado's 24,000 miles of streams. Stocking the state's streams with hatchery-raised fish...

Between the bullets and the bison. (killing of bison by Montana Department of Livestock)
March 22, 1998... The world's oldest national park was the scene of deadly conflict this winter, as animal rights activists on snow-mobiles dodged hunters' bullets to protect Yellowstone's bison -- the last unfenced, free-roaming herd in the US. Bison...

The last traveling dolphin show. (Water Land, touring show from Colombia)
March 22, 1998... Dig a hole in the ground and line it with plastic. Fill it with tap water and add bags of salt and gallons of chlorine -- instant synthetic sea water. Then put some dolphins in the hole, and voila: you have Water Land -- the world's last, and...

The year of the oceans. (United Nations)
March 22, 1998... Men have swung golf clubs on the moon. Supersonic transports whisk passengers from New York to Paris in a few hours. Adventurers have climbed to the top of Mt. Everest more than 1,000 times. Yet as we approach the close of the 20th century no...

East Timor: "an ecological disaster waiting to happen."(includes related article on the effects of U.S. policy)
March 22, 1998... Though the widespread violation of human rights in East Timor remains the focus of the world's concern, environmental tragedies also have followed in the wake of Indonesia's 1976 invasion. In the highlands of Maubessie, Ermera, Bobonaro...

US space junk falls on Siberia.
March 22, 1998... Russia -- When the Lykovy family moved to the rugged Siberian wilderness of Khakasia in the 1920s, they wanted to raise their children in isolation from civilization. But 60 years later, civilization -- and the Space Age -- arrived at the...

The Gold Rush legacy: greed, pollution and genocide. (California)
March 22, 1998... On May 12, 1848, Samuel Brannan paraded down San Francisco's Montgomery Street waving a quinine bottle full of gold dust and proclaiming "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" The Gold Rush was born that day. The Gold Rush laid...

Corporations get the gold, taxpayers get the shaft. (Mining Law of 1872)
March 22, 1998... This is the ninth agonizing year of my effort to reform the Mining Law of 1872, signed by Ulysses S. Grant and intended to entice people to "go west" and settle. Because I will leave the Senate at the end of the year, the conclusion of...

Beyond the Kyoto conference. (global climate change)
March 22, 1998... The Planet's Future Fossil fuel's grip on global energy politics is weakening. Some of the major loopholes were rejected and the final agreement went significantly beyond what the fossil fuel lobby wanted. The Kyoto Protocol sets...

The PR plot to overheat the earth. (corporate public relations on global warming)
March 22, 1998... In 1995, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- a working group of 2,500 climate experts sponsored by the United Nations -- bluntly warned that the burning of oil, coal and gasoline has pushed the Earth into a period of climatic...

US military moves into Mexico.(includes related article on arms distribution)
March 22, 1998... Chiapas, Mexico -- On February 9, 1995, while traveling south on mountainous Highway 173, we encountered a heavily supplied Mexican military convoy, carrying hundreds of armed soldiers. The convoy was moving towards Simojovel, the highland...

Cindy Duehring: a beacon in a toxic storm.(includes related article on chemical sensitivities)(Cover Story)
March 22, 1998... In 1985, I was studying to become a doctor in Seattle when I was poisoned by a local company that misapplied pesticides inside my apartment, saturating all my belongings, furniture and clothes. One of the pesticides was diazinon, which is now...

Living with cancer.(excerpt from 'Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment')(includes related article on chemicals and cancer incident statistics)
March 22, 1998... In the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college, I was diagnosed with a type of bladder cancer called transitional cell carcinoma. It is something I have in common with at least one beluga whale in the St. Lawrence River. ...

Fluoride: industry's toxic coup.(excerpt from Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1992)
March 22, 1998... For nearly 50 years, the US government and media have been telling the public that fluoride compounds (generally referred to simply as "fluoride") are safe and beneficial chemicals that reduce cavities -- especially in children. ...

Rethinking fluoridation.
March 22, 1998... In the early 1930s, US dentists were becoming aware of the damage fluoride can cause during the development of our children's teeth. Communities in 16 states had observed disfiguring stains and and pits in their children's teeth from naturally...

"The abuse of nature is a sin."(address from the Symposium on the Sacredness of the Environment, November 8, 1997)(Transcript)
March 22, 1998... Here in this historical city of Santa Barbara, we see before us a brilliant example of the wonder of God's creation. Recently, that God-given beauty was threatened by an oil spill. The Ecumenical Throne of Orthodoxy today renews its...