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Have You Spotted Owls?

Spotted-Owl Populations Declining The northern spotted owl, a species that took on huge symbolic significance in the early ’90s when activists used its protected status to sharply curtail logging in […]

Fear in a Handful of Dust

Household Dust Carries Toxic Chemicals According to a pair of new studies, common household dust carries “unexpectedly high” levels of PBDEs — chemicals used as fire retardants in computers, appliances, […]

Separating the Wheat From the Chaff

Monsanto Abandons Plans for GM Wheat With little fanfare, biotech-food giant Monsanto announced yesterday that it would abandon plans to introduce genetically modified wheat to the market. Anti-GM activists, who […]

Win Diesel

EPA Announces New Diesel Regulations Today the U.S. EPA put in place tough new regulations on off-highway diesel engines — tractors, bulldozers, locomotives, etc. — which produce more soot than […]

This Land Is Mine Land

Old Mining Law Gives Taxpayers the Shaft Under an 1872 mining law, private companies and individuals have laid claim to 9.2 million acres of public land for mining, often at […]

A Thorn in Our ‘Cides

Study Finds High Levels of Pesticides in U.S. Bodies A large percentage of U.S. residents have unsafe levels of pesticides in their bodies, and children, women, and Mexican-Americans are particularly […]

Bamboo-zled

Pandas Threatened by Loss of Bamboo Up to half of the world’s 1,200 species of woody bamboo are in danger of extinction because of deforestation, and their demise would spell […]

A family-planning advocate and U.N. supporter answers questions

What work do you do? I’m a 62-year-old retired French teacher and tennis coach who has been spending six to eight hours a day for the last 20 months trying […]

Dispatches from the Hague Conference on Environment, Security, and Sustainable Development

Geoffrey Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project in Washington, D.C., a nonpartisan policy forum on environment, population, and security issues. Monday, 10 May 2004 THE HAGUE, […]

Golf War, Too

New Bioengineered Golf Grass Sparks Fears A new strain of grass bioengineered specifically for golf courses has enviros and even federal agencies nervous. The grass — a variation of creeping […]