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To Boldly Clean Where No One Has Cleaned Before

Urging other countries to follow its lead, Australia began a massive cleanup of its Antarctic research base today. As many as 330,000 tons of waste, the detritus of decades of […]

Feeling Horny

One of the world’s rarest large mammals, the Javan rhinoceros, may have taken a baby step back from the brink of extinction, conservationists say. Information from tracking, DNA analyses, and […]

This Is Not the Place

Utah’s teachers unions will consider resolutions tonight opposing the storage of radioactive waste in the state and the use of taxes from such waste to fund schools. The proposals are […]

One month after Sept. 11, it's a whole new environment

Back in the pre-Sept. 11 era, or roughly a lifetime ago, when the word terrorism cropped up during discussions of environmental issues, it always seemed slightly out of context, an […]

Coupe Coup

Less than 6 percent of 2002 model cars and trucks now hitting showrooms get better than 30 miles per gallon, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. […]

Moscowl

Not much of the northern forest in the European portion of Russia is still standing and many of the trees that haven’t been felled are in jeopardy, according to a […]

Toodle-oo, Tuvalu

New Zealand has agreed to welcome an annual quota of immigrants from the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, where rising sea levels are forcing residents from their homes. Tuvalu, a […]

Authority Figures

The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider, announced late last week that it would invest $1.5 billion in reducing sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired plants. The money […]

Wave Hello

The ocean may supply Canada with power for the first time if the Canadian company B.C. Hydro proceeds with plans to build wave-energy plants in British Columbia. Although a few […]

Ready, Willing, and Cable?

Environmentalists are concerned about a proposal by the state of Florida to streamline a lengthy approval process for laying undersea fiber-optic cables by creating four authorized submarine telecommunications corridors off […]