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Caveat Pescor

In U.S., “Organic” Label on Fish Means Very Little The “organic” label on some salmon in supermarkets these days doesn’t mean much. The National Organics Program of the U.S. Department […]

Nuclear Proliferasia

Nuclear Power on the Rise in Asia Nuclear power is booming in Asia, thanks to rapidly escalating energy needs and concerns over widespread air pollution from coal-fired plants. Eighteen of […]

The Last Picture Show

Forest Service Brochure Contains Misleading Pictures Pictures used by the U.S. Forest Service in a brochure arguing for heavier logging in California’s Sierra Nevada forest are deliberately misleading — and, […]

Farm Aid

Small Farms Turn Organic to Survive Battered by volatile markets and relentless corporate consolidation, many family farms are turning to organic cultivation — and joining organic cooperatives — to survive. […]

Superfubar

Contaminated Oklahoma Site Highlights Superfund Problems The Superfund site at the former Tar Creek mine, located near the rural northeast Oklahoma communities of Cardin, Picher, and Hockerville, is a sobering […]

Unwiseguys

Italian “Eco-Mafia” Prospers Through Illegal Dumping and Building In a moribund Italian economy, one business sector is thriving: the “eco-mafia,” a network of criminal clans and gangs that engage in […]

Hello, Nu Man

China’s Prime Minister Unexpectedly Suspends Dam Project Well, knock us over with a feather. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has just suspended — pending further study and review — the […]

News Flash: Pesticides Are Bad for Kids

Pesticide Use Impairs Abilities of Children in India According to a study just released by Greenpeace, children from villages in the cotton-cultivating northern states of India, who are exposed to […]

Might and Maine

Maine Pushes Ahead With Pair of Pioneering Green Laws Maine — known, we found out via Google just moments ago, as the Pine Tree State — is leading the state […]

Extreme Prejudice

Bush Campaign Manager Accuses Kerry of “Environmental Extremism” Speaking before a crowd in Michigan, Marc Racicot, chair of President Bush’s reelection campaign, characterized Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry as “incredibly […]