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Fin-ished
By virtue of its name, the whale shark summons a ferocious mental image, something along the lines of Moby Dick meets Jaws. But in reality, the creature is a gentle, […]
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Corn Bawl
In a slap in the face to the bioengineering industry, the government of Zambia has rejected thousands of tons of genetically modified corn offered as food aid to the starving […]
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Putting Their Lives on the Lime
Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has […]
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Animal Crackers
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s highest scientific authority, has issued a long-awaited report cautioning that genetic manipulation of animals could pose a serious threat to the environment […]
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Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe
As if being battered by severe storms wasn’t enough, Central and Eastern Europe now face another threat: pollution unleashed by heavy flooding. In addition to concerns about contamination and disease […]
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Laughy Tafty
The U.S. EPA has warned Ohio that it could soon be stripped of federal highway funds for failing to enforce national clean air standards. The move would be a major […]
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Nature Not Nurturing?
The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s wealthiest environmental organizations, is drawing fire from other enviros for venturing into particularly unlikely territory: oil refining. In 1995, Mobil Oil gave the […]
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Sh*tting By the Dock of the Bay
Ten years ago, delegates attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro wrinkled their noses upon encountering the putrid smells emanating from the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay. The summit […]
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Sun Worshippers
Clean energy is next to godliness — or at least that’s the position of the soon-to-open Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, which has installed a […]
