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Bitter Sweet

Two years of wrangling and two days of intensive, closed-door negotiations ended in compromise yesterday when the U.S. Forest Service and environmentalists agreed to allow limited logging of burned timber […]

War and Peas

War is hell — and not just for human beings. A team of researchers from the U.N. Environment Programme is headed to Afghanistan to measure the ecological damage of decades […]

Manta Rey

Following the blueprint for charter schools, which seek to bypass the bureaucracy of public schools and enhance local control, the Bush administration will ask Congress to approve a new system […]

A Bunch of Hot Air?

In an apparent effort to patch its shabby environmental reputation at home and abroad, the Bush administration is preparing a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The final version won’t […]

Memolition Derby

A draft report of the Bush administration’s energy policy was heavily criticized last year by a senior U.S. EPA official for blaming energy shortages on environmental regulations, according to a […]

What Sumatra You?

The Tesso Nilo forest on Sumatra, Indonesia, contains more biological diversity than the Amazon. It is home to elephants, tigers, gibbons, and tapirs, and a recent survey conducted by scientists […]

When Methanol’s Said and Done

In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California’s ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. […]

Civic Virtue

For the first time ever, consumers will be able to buy a hybrid version of a popular car model — the much-beloved Honda Civic. Environmentalists, industry analysts, and even other […]

Mah-agony

No, it’s not an anti-abortion campaign: This Operation Rescue is an attempt to save Brazil’s mahogany trees from the chainsaw. The nation has launched a “war” to recover an estimated […]

Wolfing It Up

Maybe it’s Manifest Destiny — or maybe it’s just the instinct of all creatures to return to their home. Whatever the reason, the gray wolf, once exterminated from Northern California […]