Word: environmental
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You point out that despite increasing awareness of our dependence on oil, energy still feels like a distant, impersonal issue to a lot of us. Why do you think that is? The media measures America's energy crisis in terms of megawatts and barrels of oil and pounds of carbon...
There is no such thing as too extreme for Mike Roselle. The environmental activist has scaled the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore to call attention to environmental issues and driven spikes into trees to sabotage loggers' chainsaws. He's even held camps to teach more than 1,000 youths how to do the same. Now Roselle has a new book, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action. He talked with TIME about his choice of methods, where we're winning the battle against climate change and why politicians should be getting arrested...
Mudlarks follow a strict code of conduct. All objects more than 300 years old are taken to the Museum of London to be logged. Thames mud is particularly dense, and its anaerobic environment aids preservation. Curator Kate Sumnall says the museum receives about 500 objects of historical significance a year...
Superman was modeled partly on Moses. The comic-book hero's creators, two bookish Jews from Cleveland named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, drew their character's backstory from the superhero of the Torah. Just as baby Moses is floated down the Nile in a basket to escape annihilation, baby...
...director of Arias' Peace With Nature campaign is in charge of green projects from national park endowments to getting climate change into school curriculums, admit there are some "inconsistencies" in the government's actions. But he insists Arias is "sincere" about the environment and deserves credit as a "world environmental leader." Leon adds that "making peace with nature," like making peace between ideological enemies a generation ago, is a "a logical sequence to Arias' career." But with little more than a year to go in his second, environmental presidency, a growing number of Ticos feel Arias still needs...