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Going Apes

Great Apes Are Heading for Extinction Human beings’ endless efforts to kill each other have not reduced their overall numbers, but they may yet wipe out humanity’s closest genetic cousins, […]

List Me Baby, One More Time

Group Petitions for Protection of Hundreds of Imperiled U.S. Species A coalition of enviro groups, scientists, and artists petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday to add 225 species […]

Self Empowerment

California Businesses Hop on the Fuel-Cell Bandwagon A number of California businesses — rattled by the 2000 energy crisis, with its rolling black- and brown-outs, and the state’s generally unreliable […]

The Lead Badge of Courage

Vermont Senator Proposes Stricter Drinking-Water Legislation Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.) announced this week that he will introduce legislation that aims to eliminate lead from the nation’s drinking water. The Lead-Free […]

Terminator 4: Demise of the Machines

Schwarzenegger to Kill Machines, Again — This Time, the Polluting Kind California officials seeking to ameliorate the state’s persistent smog problems are focusing on a common group of culprits: old […]

Blame Canada

British Columbia Mine Plan Has Montanans in an Uproar Coal-mining and natural-gas drilling projects could soon get underway in British Columbia’s Flathead Valley, just north of the U.S. border and […]

Hear No Evil

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Two Environmental Cases Such is the power of the U.S. Supreme Court that its refusal to hear a case can carry as much weight as […]

A Pressing Matter

Journalist Covering Eco-Radicalism Gets Snared in Story A journalist covering attempts by Earth First! activists to thwart a cougar hunt on federal land has been arrested along with one of […]

A long-time conservationist and budding politician answers questions

What work do you do? As the executive director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund, I work to ensure the persistence of imperiled species and their habitats, with an emphasis […]

Absolutely Cabulous

New Hybrid Taxis Taking Off Once the sole province of eco-conscious consumers willing to pay a little extra to reduce their environmental footprint, gas-electric hybrid vehicles have found an eager […]