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Mine Kampf

Newmont Mining Corp. Blamed for Sickness and Fish Kills in Indonesia For nearly a decade, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp., the world’s biggest gold producer, has dumped treated mine waste directly […]

Taint Misbehavin’

Pollution Causes Animals to Act All Freaky It seems to some folks that humans behave in more and more bizarre fashion these days, but animals have tended to go about […]

Vengeance Is Mine

Mining Company Funds Campaign to Repeal Cyanide-Mining Ban in Montana In 1998, Montana voters approved a ban on cyanide open-pit gold mining, which for years had defaced the state’s landscape […]

Luisa Colasimone, wind power advocate, answers questions

Luisa Colasimone. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I’m communications director for the European Wind Energy Association. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute […]

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

The Wilderness Act Turns 40 Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Some 9 million acres […]

Pebbles: Bam, Bam!

China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants China’s economy is expanding faster than Bruce Banner with road rage, straining against the limits of its current capacity for creating […]

The Windshield Beneath My Wings

Splatometers Reveal Possible Insect Decline in U.K. Many bird populations in the U.K. have declined precipitously in recent years — for instance, house sparrows have dropped by 65 percent since […]

Losing Our Marbleds

Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird The Bush administration took a big step yesterday toward removing the marbled murrelet, a Northwest seabird, from the list of threatened […]

Good Vote Hunting

More Wildlife Refuges Opened to Hunting and Fishing Yesterday, just as the Republican National Convention was getting underway, the Bush administration announced that it will open an additional 243,500 acres […]

Water Foul

Bush Administration Proposes Lower Standards for Toxic Metal Selenium Even while the Bush administration publicly courts hunters and fishers, it’s taking quiet steps that those outdoorsfolks likely wouldn’t approve of. […]