David Rains Wallace is the author of "The Klamath Knot" (reprinted by University of California Press, 2003) and "Beasts of Eden" (University of California Press, 2004). Tidy symbols tend to be more ...

The founder of Kenya’s GreenBelt Movement, Wangari Maathai, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 because she talked environmental truth to power. She also walked the walk. Especially on a January morning ...

England’s New Forest is home to trees that bear the marks of more than 500 years of human activity. Known as arborglyphs, the etchings range from charms against evil that may have been carved during ...