8 Great Articles and Essays about Natural Resources

Trees

Blood Wood by Patrick Symmes

Environmentalists are once again being murdered, while illegal logging pushes deeper into the world’s last great tropical jungle

The Stolen Forests by Raffi Khatchadourian

Nearly every train from Russia brings in just one commodity: wood

Sued by the Forest by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Should nature be able to take you to court?

Misc.

Our Good Earth by Charles C. Mann

Scientists at the International Soil Reference and Information Centre in the Netherlands estimate that humankind has degraded more than 7.5 million square miles of land, an area the size of the United States and Canada combined

Red Is the New Green by Patrick Symmes

Cuba has the Caribbean’s largest wetlands and earth’s happiest lobsters, but is Fortress Fidel really an environmental paradise?

Soy in the Amazon by Pat Joseph

Mato Grosso has seen some of the most rampant deforestation on Earth, with land being cleared in a mad rush to graze cattle and grow crops — principally soybeans

Mining

Death of a Mountain by Erik Reece

How to kill a mountain

Salmon or Gold by Edwin Dobb

“It’s time to decide what we value most”