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Social Lite

More Businesses Flock to U.N.’s Social-Responsibility Compact The five-year-old United Nations Global Compact, which held its first summit in New York City last month, is the world’s biggest corporate social-responsibility […]

Bhopal-Bearer

Judge Orders Payments to Bhopal Victims Released Yesterday, the Supreme Court of India ordered the government to release the remaining compensation owed the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, […]

Train Has Left the Station

Republican Ex-EPA Chief Criticizes Bush “It’s almost as if the motto of the administration in power today in Washington is not environmental protection, but polluter protection.” Why, what sort of […]

It’s Only a Model

Chesapeake Bay Progress Systematically Overstated Since the Chesapeake Bay Program — an alliance of the feds and several states — signed an agreement in 1987 to revitalize the ailing bay, […]

Welsh Gambit

Welsh Village Adopts Long Name to Protest Wind Development Wind turbines are controversial in the U.K., where some people object to what they claim is the damage — both environmental […]

Livin’ la Vida L’oppie

Trend Alert: Organic Professionals As everyone knows, a social movement is nothing until it is given a silly name, treated as a fad, trivialized, commodified, and ultimately destroyed by ravenous […]

Advances With Wolves

Bush Administration to Remove Gray Wolf Protections Today the Interior Department announced a proposal to lift endangered-species protections from gray wolves across some two-thirds of the U.S., citing what Interior […]

‘N Sink

Oceans Absorbing Half of CO2 Emissions; Effects Uncertain According to studies published today in the journal Science, the world’s oceans have absorbed almost half of all the carbon dioxide emissions […]

In the Navy, You Can Wail the Seven Seas

Enviro Groups Claim Navy Sonar Harms Whales Speaking of oceans: Four enviro groups sent a letter to the U.S. Navy this week urging it to change the way it uses […]

Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud

Chinese Provinces Fight Over Cloud Seeding Hey, speaking of water debates, how’s this one for weirditude? In China — large sections of which are parched by persistent drought — the […]