Environment

Articles in Environment

Thoughtful explorations of current environmental issues, from global warming to alternative fuels.


October 2009

Editor’s Note

Introducing the October 2009 issue of The Walrus

The Age of Breathing Underwater

Environmentalists have long struggled to save Nature from humanity’s negligence — and still we’ve reached the brink of catastrophe. How can we learn to thrive in the climate we’ve created? The answer begins beneath the sea...


July 2009

Decomposting Bodies

What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?


June 2009

An Inconvenient Talk

Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age


December 2008

Tiger Balm

Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok

Eels on Wheels

The curious conservation of the Great Lakes eel


October 2008

Monkey’s Lunch

Pounding rounds with poachers turned protectors

The Business of Saving the Earth

Ecological economists are assigning a price to watersheds and other biological factories

Baffin Island Expedition

Photos from Sept 2-12 aboard the Lyubov Orlova


July 2008

Grounded

Imagining a world without flight

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Ghetto Affect
Ghetto Affect
by Patricia Pearson | SEPTEMBER 2009
Bringing psychotherapy to the down and out

Word is Born
Word is Born
by Arno Kopecky | DECEMBER 2008
A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers