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Prestigious Environmental Prize Honors Five Youth Leaders
October 9th, 2025
“Earth Island is pleased to reach an amicable resolution with Danone, and for Danone’s agreement to support initiatives and efforts to reduce plastic waste in California.”
September 10th, 2025
Groups claim three new dispersants are Corexit knockoffs with the same deadly effects as the discontinued Corexit products
June 23rd, 2025
Despite the setback, environmental attorneys think similar litigation can succeed elsewhere.
Grist, November 19th, 2024
Featuring Earth Island's Rise St. James
The Guardian, August 10th, 2023
Featuring Earth Island's Wild Oyster Project
Berkeleyside, July 12th, 2023
Trump’sWallCannotBlockCollaborationsAcrosstheBorder
Cross-border conservation collaborations between US and Mexican communities remain unbroken.
August 13th, 2026NeartheSaltonSea,LittleLeaguePlayersStruggletoBreathe
Pediatric asthma is common in Calipatria, California, where young athletes compete despite extreme heat and air pollution. Some worry a lithium boom could make things worse.
August 12th, 2026FromGazatoLebanon:AScorched-EarthStrategy
The Israeli army is unlawfully using deadly white phosphorous and other chemical weapons to destroy farmlands and forests in southern Lebanon, reports reveal.
August 6th, 2026
Supporting a new generation of environmental leaders and presenting the premier youth environmental prize in North America, the Brower Youth Award.
Images at the top of this page: Picture Lake and Mount Shuksan, North Cascades, James Patterson/TandemStock; Kikuyu farmer near Lake Bogoria, Kenya, Scott Davis/TandemStock; dolphin off the coast of Ixtapa, a Pacific Coast beach resort in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Christian Vizl/TandemStock; a young boy hugging a tree, Karine Aigner/TandemStock.
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