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He may have carried a big stick in foreign policy, but Teddy Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment was domestic. Curbing the relentless private exploitation of America's natural treasures, especially in the West, he brought millions of acres of land into the public domain, helped by the indomitable Gifford Pinchot (1865...
When Bob Hunter, right, and Paul Watson joined buddies in Vancouver in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear testing in the Arctic, they didn't realize they were setting off their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy...
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE www.foe.org.hk Braving the threat of high-altitude sickness, Chinese volunteers are traveling to the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, the source of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, to plant drought-resistant shrubs and trees intended to halt soil erosion. They are also sending bottles downstream with messages urging...
Denis Hayes is the Mike Ovitz of the environmental movement, always hustling for new ways to promote the cause. When Hayes, the chief organizer of Earth Day 2000, wanted a headliner host for his April 22 rally in Washington for clean energy, he landed a star of Titanic proportions: LEONARDO...
He went to college in Hawaii and then returned to Palau, where he started working for the government. In 1994 he founded the Palau Conservation Society, the archipelago's only homegrown non-governmental organization. He has traveled to Britain, Canada, Italy, the Solomon Islands and Fiji to study, but Idechong...