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The Smog Monster

Forty-nine years ago, in November 1953, New York City was stricken with a six-day siege of air pollution so fierce that it killed or contributed to the deaths of 25 […]

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go?

Nearly three years after some 20,000 anti-globalization demonstrators all but shut down the city of Seattle, a fraction of that crowd showed up to protest this weekend’s meetings of the […]

Everything Goes Worse With Coke

As if population pressures and the international demand for wood weren’t exacting enough of a toll on tropical ecosystems, here’s another problem: cocaine. In the last 30 years, some 5.7 […]

And other words from readers

  Re: I’d Like My C, Under the Sea Dear Editor: The article implies that storing carbon in air pockets under the sea floor is the definition of carbon sequestration. […]

Old Flame

The chemicals in fire-resistant products help keep your home safe — but they appear to be endangering species in the Norwegian Arctic. Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are showing up in […]

Klam Bake

In the latest turn of events in the Water Crisis That Won’t Die, state officials in California are considering releasing water into the Klamath River to rescue thousands of salmon […]

For the Birds

The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was widened this week to include six types of whales, a rare Asian river dolphin, the great white […]

Drill Press

As the U.S. Congress debates the details of a far-ranging energy bill, Interior Secretary Gale Norton has announced that she will ask President Bush to veto any version of the […]

Luck Ran Out

Nevada has run out of funding to continue its birth-defects registry, a loss that supporters say couldn’t have come at a worse time. The registry, which was begun three years […]

Sea Minus

It’s an ocean of trouble out there — such were the conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, which issued an interim report today at the halfway-point of an […]