Wangari Maathai

Karura Forest sits in the northern corner of Nairobi, Kenya, an oasis of more than 1,000 hectares of native trees, waterfalls and nature trails surrounded by a modern city of more than 3 million people.  It’s one of the largest urban forests in the world, and it wouldn’t exist without …

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Rachel Carson

In January of 1958 a gardener and birdwatcher in Massachusetts sent Rachel Carson a letter describing the dead birds she kept finding in her back yard. She believed they were dying from chemical exposure, specifically the pesticide DDT. Prompted by the letter and her decades of work with the Fish …

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