Environmental News and Magazines

Links to environmental news sources on the web, especially for Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania.

Web Sites

• Audubon Magazine
  This site offers information that supplements our print publication AUDUBON.
• Ecology and Society
  An electronic, peer-reviewed, scientific journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research in the conservation of ecosystems, landscapes, species, populations, and genetic diversity; the restoration of ecosystems and habitats; and the management of resources. Formerly Conservation Ecology. Published by The Resilience Alliance, Waterloo, ON Canada.
• Emagazine.com
  E/The Environmental Magazine was founded in 1988 as an independent newsstand-quality publication on environmental issues--a magazine that could educate, inspire and empower Americans to make a difference for the environment. Their website includes the full text of feature articles from their current issue and abstracts of articles from previous issues. They also offer a calendar of environmental activities.
• EnviroLink News Service
  News about the environment from EnviroLink, including an email newsletter, current corporate boycotts
• Environmental Leader
  Environmental Leader is a daily trade publication that keeps corporate executives fully informed about environmental and sustainability news as well as the latest on corporate environmental initiatives.
• Environmental News Network
  Latest environmental news headlines.
• Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic States) News
  Serving Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The "Current Press Releases" gives information about recent grants awarded by this federal agency.
• Grist Magazine
  Environmental News & Commentary. An online environmental magazine - based in Seattle - from the Earth Day Network that publishes new content each weekday -- in-depth reporting, cartoons, summaries of breaking news stories, diary entries from activists, book reviews, green investment advice, and lots more.

• Orion Magazine
  An environmental magazine published by the Orion Society, an environmental organization concentrating on grassroots networking. Feature articles are available abridged online.
• Plenty Magazine
  "Plenty is an environmental media company dedicated to exploring and giving voice to the green revolution that will define the 21st Century." Articles on how to live greener in an age of superabundance (like why not to drink bottled water).
• Terrain.org: A Journal of the Build & Natural Environments
  http://www.terrain.org/
  A quarterly online journal searching for the integration of the built and natural environments through high quality literary, journalistic, and artistic works. It includes a column on "Unsprawl" highlighting a community.

Pittsburgh Region

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Environment
  This section from the Post-Gazette has articles on local environmental issues and problems.
• Allegheny Front Radio Program
  The Allegheny Front is an environmental radio program/website on WYEP that engages and informs the audience to deepen a respect for nature and inspire all to act in an environmentally responsible manner, by exploring topics relevant to the lives of the people in our region.
• Green Drinks: Pittsburgh
  Every month, people who work in the environmental field or have in interest in a greener planet meet up for drinks at places all around the world at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. Join the local chapter in Pittsburgh to learn the latest in the green building environment.

• Zephyr
  the newsletter of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the Air & Waste Management Association covering regional and national environmental news in the fields of air pollution, water, wastewater, solid waste and environmental management.

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: News Room
  Pennsylvania environmental headlines.
  • Daily Internet News Clippings
    Environmental news from other sites on the Internet.
• Pennsylvania Environmental Digest
  The PA Environment Digest summarizes the news and trends in environmental issues facing Pennsylvania from a wide variety of sources. A service of Holston & Crisci, a Pennsylvania-based government relations firm who represents clients that include Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations and offers association management, issue and bill tracking and communications services.
• Pennsylvania Watershed Weekly
  Watershed Weekly is a publication produced the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers (POWR) to help watershed groups statewide gain visibility and network with each other. The newsletter also includes information on upcoming events, conferences, funding source information, training, and job opportunities. A new watershed project is spotlighted each week with topics such as stream bank buffer plantings, dam removals, monitoring activities for students, and abandoned mine drainage projects.
• Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources News and Information
  Latest news releases from the DCNR.
• The Sierra Club Sylvanian
  Pennsylvania Chapter Newsletter with environmental action news