Heroes of the Environment

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A Sense of Urgency

For 2007, TIME's annual celebration of heroes spotlights the most innovative and influential protectors of the planet More »

Photos: This Fragile Earth

To commemorate TIME's Heroes of the Environment, a whirlwind tour of some of the wildlife and ecosystems most endangered by global warming More »
Photos: China's Dust Bowl

Decades of ruinous environmental policies have turned the delicate grasslands of central China into desert. James Whitlow Delano documents the ongoing fight against the sand More »
Photos: Al Gore's American Life

A look back through the archives at TIME's environmental hero and Nobel Peace Prize winner More »
Leaders & Visionaries

Mikhail Gorbachev
Faced with the cold war's disastrous ecological legacy, he saw that the Soviet Union had to change its ways More »
Activists

Frederic Hauge
How a Norwegian pragmatist makes big waves among corporate and political leaders More »
Scientists & Innovators

Toyota Prius Design Team
Ten years ago Toyota launched a gasoline-electric hybrid; the fuel-sipping Prius has since set the environmental standard More »
Moguls & Entrepreneurs

Tulsi Tanti
Wind power saved his first factory. Now he wants to harness it to help save the world More »
Green Stream

How Lee Myung Bak turned a polluted expressway into the centerpiece of Seoul's environmentally friendly future More »