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Amazon Painforest

Outrage is brewing among human rights organizations and environmental advocates over the murder of Brazilian environmental and labor leader Ademir Federicci. Federicci, one of seven environmental, labor, or religious leaders […]

Our Hero, Teijiro

After months of ambivalence, the Japanese government is poised to seek ratification of the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Teijiro Furukawa plans to meet later this […]

Jim DiPeso, Republicans for Environmental Protection

Jim DiPeso is communications director for Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP America), which works to make natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection fundamental elements of the Republican Party’s vision […]

Flood Insurance

Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding […]

Oily Sheen

Summoning the specter of national security threats, President Bush called on the U.S. Senate yesterday to pass an energy bill that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife […]

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. […]