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The Icky 500

New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days Newly minted U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt gave his first major speech yesterday, promising to embark on the “most productive […]

Markey-Mark and the Nukey Bunch

GAO Finds Shortage of Money for Closing Atomic Reactors Nearly half of the nuclear-reactor owners in the U.S. are not setting aside sufficient money to decommission the plants when they […]

Skiing Downhill

Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry Bad news for ski bums: As global climate change heats up the planet and pushes snow lines ever higher, many […]

Go Ahead, Makah My Day

Court Upholds Block on Makah Whale Hunt Whale advocates are celebrating in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling last week that will make it tougher for the Makah […]

Whatever Floats Your Nuke

Russia Offers Floating Nuclear Plants to India How’s this for a bad idea: floating nuclear plants. Russia, which has plans to build 11 such plants in its far north in […]

Less Bark, More Bite

Logging in the Amazon Leads to Increase in Malaria Destruction of the Amazon rainforest is encouraging the spread of malaria, according to new research based on data from Peru. Every […]

The Great Green North

Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada’s Boreal Forests A huge forest-protection initiative will get off the ground in Canada today, aiming to put half of the nation’s northern boreal forests […]

The Fur Is Flying — Off the Shelves

Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species Fur is making a comeback on fashion runways — and that means trouble for a number of endangered animals, according to an official […]

Tara Wesely, Rivers for Life meeting

Tara Wesely is attending the Rivers for Life meeting in Thailand. She is assistant manager of environmental sustainability at Aveda Corp. and a fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program. Monday, […]

Eat Lots, Buy Little, and Try Not to Miss Us Too Much

Grist Takes Publishing Hiatus Until Dec. 1 In honor of Thanksgiving and Buy Nothing Day, Grist will be taking a three-day publishing break beginning tomorrow. But fret not — we’ll […]