What drives environmental activists to fire-bomb laboratories?

Emma Marris investigates a radical fringe of the US green movement in our news feature, In the name of nature.

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Editorial: To build bridges, or to burn them

Environmentalists who have grown impatient with science and technology need not be dismissed as beyond the reach of reason.

One day in June 1998, three young environmental activists of a radical bent drove from Eugene, Oregon, to Olympia, Washington. Their route took them through some of the loveliest country in the Pacific Northwest: up Interstate 5, through the Willamette Valley, between dark green forested mountains and misty hillside vineyards. Their van shared the road with logging trucks carrying immense trees hung with lichens and mosses.

What drives environmental activists to fire-bomb laboratories?

Emma Marris investigates a radical fringe of the US green movement in our news feature, In the name of nature.

PLUS

Editorial: To build bridges, or to burn them

Environmentalists who have grown impatient with science and technology need not be dismissed as beyond the reach of reason.

One day in June 1998, three young environmental activists of a radical bent drove from Eugene, Oregon, to Olympia, Washington. Their route took them through some of the loveliest country in the Pacific Northwest: up Interstate 5, through the Willamette Valley, between dark green forested mountains and misty hillside vineyards. Their van shared the road with logging trucks carrying immense trees hung with lichens and mosses.