Earth First! (EF!) is a network of environmental activists, living mostly in the United States, committed to preserving wilderness and biological abundance. Earth First Journal logo. (Courtesy of Earth First Journal. Reproduced by permission.) It was...

Earth First! is a radical and often controversial environmental group founded in 1979 in response to what Dave Foreman and other founders believed to be the increasing co-optation of the environmental movement. For Earth First! members, too much of...

EARTH FIRST! Earth First!, the best known among the so-called radical environmental groups, was founded in 1980 in the southwestern United States. With its slogan "no compromise in defense of mother earth," it underscored its...

Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group[1] that emerged in the Southwestern United States in the spring of 1980. Inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a group of...

A judge sentenced a radical environmentalist Friday to nine years in prison for torching a police substation and a tree farm and for downing a power line, deeds the judge called acts of terrorism.Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, 30, is the third of 10 members of The...

Demographics: Advocates of population stabilization -- a euphemism for population reduction -- are highly skilled at gaining attention for their cause. They're not so good, though, at dealing with the facts.From the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which favors a global population of less than 1...

More than a decade after they began setting fires across the West, remnants of the radical Earth Liberation Front stood before a federal judge, one by one, to hear her decide: Had they committed acts of domestic terrorism?First, Stanislas Meyerhoff.Quiet, shy, his hair turning gray...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is asked constantly about his 71 years on earth. First, he responded with jokes. Now, he talks about judgment.In the early days of his campaign, McCain kidded: "I'm older than dirt, more scars than Frankenstein."Today, with the race at a...