A dozen environmental groups issued a sharp rebuke Friday of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmental lawyer who led the green group Waterkeeper Alliance until 2020 and has promised to be the “best environment president in American history.” Kennedy “is not an environmentalist,” reads the letter, whose signees included the Sierra Club, … Read more
Before I left the city for the prairie, I never thought that I might be a pyromaniac. I’d never started a fire outside a hearth, or thrilled at seeing one burning on the landscape. Then I stood in Nebraska, at dusk, with a crew of wildland firefighters, land managers, and biologists charged with setting fires. … Read more
There are things you see, walking through the big cities of South Korea, that remind you of the recent but worlds-apart past. Venders of live cuttlefish and quilted hemp linens in the traditional market. An elderly woman on the sidewalk selling small, homegrown quantities of millet and barley. Their customers are few; everyone shops at … Read more
