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I Did It Norway

Norway Plays Host to Creative Eco-Friendly Projects A windy island off the western coast of Norway is the site for an ambitious demonstration project that aims to power a tiny […]

What a Drag

Pollution Gives Girlish Traits to Boy Turtles Some male snapping turtles in the Great Lakes are suffering from reduced penis size and are producing egg yolk protein, a capability once […]

Endangered, Will Robinson!

Endangered Species Act Under Attack Again Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) is once again on the attack against the Endangered Species Act. Nearly a decade ago, during the “Gingrich Revolution,” Pombo […]

Tuna Fishy

Feds Knew “Dolphin-Safe” Rules Were Being Broken In 2002, the Bush administration relaxed restrictions on foreign-caught tuna, allowing boats that netted dolphins to sell their tuna as “dolphin-safe” in the […]

Disorder in the Court

Cheney Task Force Supreme Court Case Gets Underway Court watchers hoping to witness fireworks or heated accusations about duck hunting or energy-executive cuddling were sorely disappointed by the kickoff yesterday […]

Rouge Awakening

Ford Unveils New Green Assembly Plant On the site of its nearly 90-year-old Rouge manufacturing complex, where workers once assembled Model A’s, Ford Motor Co. yesterday unveiled its new Dearborn […]

Dread for the Border

New Border Enforcement Plan Worries Enviros An aggressive new plan to crack down on illegal immigration and smuggling over the Arizona-Mexico border will damage fragile federally protected land that serves […]

Which Blair Project?

Blair Launches New Climate Change Group U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke today at the launch of the Climate Group, an international coalition of financial institutions, business leaders, environmental groups, […]

A freshwater expert and author answers questions

What work do you do? I work through a creation of mine called the Global Water Policy Project to promote the protection of rivers and other freshwater ecosystems. My goal […]

Dispatch from the big annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washingto

Colleen Freeman is a policy analyst at Friends of the Earth-U.S. and Peter Bossard is policy director at International Rivers Network. They took part in discussions between environmental and other […]