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Drain Oh!

Harsh Western Drought May Be the Norm, Say Scientists The harsh drought that has been plaguing the American West in recent years is set to produce a raft of environmental, […]

From Russia With Wood

Russia’s Siberian Forests in Danger The Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia is Russia’s most significant timber-producing area, which is saying something in a massive country 70 percent covered by forest. But […]

You Do Have to Live Like a Refugee

Pacific-Island Dwellers Suffer from Global Warming Now is not a good time to live on a small Pacific island. Thanks to global warming, many researchers say, species on such islands […]

Readers sound off on manipulated science, Sierra Club electioneering, and more

  Back to School, Craig Re: Craig’s List Dear Editor: Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson claims that abuse of science is one of the most “misbegotten” criticisms of the Bush […]

Dispatch from a contentious meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board

Will Fantle is director of research for the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. The group’s Organic Integrity Project acts […]

Sink-o de Mayo

Water Troubles Cause Mexico City to Sink Mexico City is sinking — in some areas, by as much as a foot a year, and altogether by about 30 feet over […]

Take It Wheezy

Climate Change Contributes to Asthma in Poor Preschoolers Poor and minority preschool children in U.S. inner cities are among the first people suffering adverse effects from global warming. According to […]

Leavitt for Later

EPA Postpones Final Decision on Mercury Regs Under a withering storm of criticism — hundreds of thousands of public comments, outraged punditry, and earlier this month, a letter from 45 […]

Goin’ Smack to Cali

Supreme Court Rules Against California Air-Quality Regulators The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 yesterday that Southern Californian air-quality officials had overstepped their legal bounds when they required operators of private fleets […]

Waiting to Inhale

American Lung Association Names Most Polluted Areas The Supreme Court ruling spotlighted above is harshly ironic in light of today’s release by the American Lung Association of its annual report […]