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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 […]

Green Ketchup

Teresa Heinz Kerry Critical of Bush Environmental Record Teresa Heinz Kerry slammed the Bush administration’s efforts to change clean-air and clean-water rules as “inexcusable and unforgivable” in a speech in […]

Aguapocalypse

Mexico Faces Coming Water Crisis A dam planned for the Huentitan Canyon northeast of Guadalajara, Mexico, is becoming a flashpoint of political controversy and a grim illustration of the water […]

A Flighty Wind

Wind Power Sparks Controversy Across Western Europe In Western European countries, where thousands of wind farms are sprouting up across the landscape, fierce bickering has broken out over the benefits […]

Mitt Wit

Mass. Gov. Questions Climate Change and Launches Plan to Fight It When a draft of Massachusetts’ new plan to fight global warming was released, enviros were heartened that a Republican […]

Flotsam I Am

Ocean Riddled with Microscopic Plastic Particles Microscopic bits of plastic are ubiquitous in the world’s oceans, everywhere from the depths to the shorelines, reports a new study in the journal […]

Apathy Not Endangered

Bush Rule Change on Salmon Not Likely to Affect Election Last week, when the Bush administration announced that it would count hatchery salmon along with wild salmon when determining what […]

Whatever Floats Your House

Netherlands Prepares for Climate Change with Amphibious Homes Builders in the low-lying Netherlands have always used ingenious means to keep the water out: If not for a series of dikes […]

Buoys in the Hood

Hood Canal One of Growing Number of Dead Zones Hood Canal is dying in slow motion, victim of a growing oxygen-deprived “dead zone,” and there is little political will or […]