Articles by Katharine Wroth

A preview of this year’s green-tinted movies

Last year was a banner one for nature movies, kicking off with The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and ending up with the wild cowboys of Brokeback Mountain (c’mon, Jake wasn’t the only gorgeous scenery). In the middle, there were record-grossing Penguins, a trip to Syriana, and the horrors of The Island. So what does […]

Which words defined 2005?

Check out Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year for 2005 -- the words most often looked up online. Can this be real?

1. integrity
   
2. refugee
   
3. contempt
   
4. filibuster
   
5. insipid
   
6. tsunami
   
7. pandemic
   
8. conclave
   
9. levee
   
10. inept

Yup, that pretty much sums it up.

Look, honey! It’s a disaster!

New bus tours of Katrina's aftermath: creepy or clever?

One thing's for sure: they're popular.

This year’s acts of nature were anything but

This straightforward story makes a no-doubt-unpopular point: The "natural" disasters of 2005 were anything but.

From the Mississippi delta to the mountains of Kashmir and the beaches of the Andaman Sea, governments failed in almost every case to respect the basic laws of sustainable development.

It's not a point many will see, or want to see. But we obviously need to.