The degradation of coasts and oceans continues, but faint hopes for improvement are stirring.
Roger Stone
Roger D. Stone, guest editor for this special report, is director and president of the Sustainable Development Institute. He was formerly a correspondent and news bureau chief for Time magazine with three years' service in Brazil. He has also been a vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank and of the World Wildlife Fund, and president of the Center for Inter-American Relations. He is the author of five published books including Dreams of Amazonia (Viking/Penguin, 1985).
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Water Wisdom
Recently I visited water expert Peter Gleick at the Oakland, California, headquarters of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, where he is president and co-founder. A MacArthur Fellowship award winner for his work on water issues, Dr. Gleick has been a practitioner in the field for some 20 years. His institute’s […]
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The Search for Solutions
From indigenous people to carbon traders, concerned groups have stepped up the fight to save the Amazon.
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Tomorrow’s Amazonia
As farming, ranching, and logging shrink the globe’s great rainforest, the planet heats up. A Prospect special report on the assaults on, and the efforts to protect, the Amazon.