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Trout Killing in America

Dam operators could flood part of the Colorado River next year in an effort to save an endangered fish species, rebuild beaches, and kill part of an excessively large trout […]

Don’t You Hate Your Energy Bill?

After some two months of debate, the Senate energy bill passed by a vote of 88 to 11 yesterday, but no one’s very excited about it. Environmentalists and many Democrats […]

Cherignoble

Sixteen years ago today, a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded, resulting in the worst atomic accident in the history of the world. The explosion affected 3.3 million Ukrainians as well […]

Bad Air Day

As if California didn’t have enough of a smog problem all by itself, now it and other parts of the nation are suffering from air pollution blown in from China. […]

Froggy Went a Coughin’ and He Did Die, Mm-hmm

Category: More Bad News About Frogs. Those amphibian-lovers who were dismayed to learn last week that frogs and their fellow kind are being rendered hermaphroditic and otherwise sexually odd by […]

Quick Draw, McGraw

A tiff has broken out between the Department of Interior and the U.S. EPA over proposed gas drilling in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The energy industry would like to drill […]

Have Trash, Will Travel

Like a cross between hitchhikers and shipwrecked sailors, marine animals are straying from their normal habitats by catching rides on sea-borne trash, according to an article appearing in the current […]

Phil Anthropist

Phil Anschutz is an unlikely hero for Native Americans and environmentalists. One of the richest people in the country and a mega-donor to the Republican Party, Anschutz made his fortune […]

Hi, I’m Not in Delaware

In the latest blow to its image, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a planned $311 million deepening of the Delaware River after learning that the General Accounting […]

Rodents of Usual Size

It’s a grand time to be a San Bernardino kangaroo rat — or as grand as they come for the endangered nine-inch rodent. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service […]