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Let It LEED

Green Skyscraper Underway in NYC Since the United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group, published its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building standards in 2000, […]

The Butterfly Effect

Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico A guerilla war is underway in Mexico’s idyllic Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where millions of black-and-orange monarch butterflies alight every year […]

Oil Over Again

Analysts Warn That Natural Gas Could Pose Same Problems as Oil As the inevitable oil crisis draws closer, with demand continuing to rise and production capacity rapidly approaching its peak, […]

Coolin’ the Gang

Toronto Cools Itself with Cold Water Starting this week, near-freezing water from the depths of Lake Ontario will bring relief to heat-stricken residents of Toronto, Ontario. A multi-million-dollar project will […]

Me-ouch!

Conservationists Struggle to Preserve the World’s Big Cats Perhaps the most charismatic of charismatic megafauna, the world’s big cats — lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my! — are in […]

Enough With the Snowmobiles Already

Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone — Again The saga of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park contains more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Only without the sex. […]

Developing Nations Do It Faster

Population to Grow Rapidly in Developing Countries The world population is expected to balloon from 6.3 billion to 9.3 billion by 2050, and nearly 99 percent of the growth will […]

Mo’ Emissions, Mo’ Problems

Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs Environmental Defense is pushing the U.S. EPA to increase the pollution reductions it is set to impose on power companies in December. […]

Welcome to the Mo’ Hell California

New Study Predicts Hot, Dry Future for California According to a new study, global warming will leave California either really hosed or just moderately hosed, depending on the choices the […]

A Plan Fiendishly Clever in Its Intricacies

Bush’s Small Tweaks to Regulations Carry Large Consequences In the third installment of its in-depth three-article series on Bush administration regulatory changes, The Washington Post today focuses on the way […]