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Please Don't Feed the Sharks

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission gave preliminary approval yesterday to a ban on shark-feeding dives. The ban would cover “interactive” shark tours that use cut-up fish bait to […]

The Military Is Hazardous to Your Health

The Pentagon isn’t cleaning up thousands of former military sites as quickly as it claims, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. General Accounting Office, the investigative arm […]

Cheesed Off

A growing number of children are giving the thumbs down to meat, but public schools haven’t been quick to provide alternative options at lunch, according to vegetarian advocates. Recent surveys […]

When It Rains, It Poors

Poor people in the U.K. are among those worst affected by environmental problems in the country, according to a recent study published in Britain. The researchers conducted a series of […]

The Green Planet

The Northern Hemisphere is greener now than it was 20 years ago, possibly because the Earth’s temperatures are rising, according to a NASA-funded study. The scientists found that the growing […]

Fish-ious Cycle

Traces of antibiotics, estrogen, and antidepressants have been found in Canada’s water system, according to Canadian health officials. They promised yesterday to develop regulations requiring drug manufacturers to assess how […]

Clean Up Your Vroom

The German army is developing “green” weaponry meant to reduce the pollution coming from guns and military rockets. In place of missiles and space rockets whose emissions contribute to acid […]

Not Plover Lovers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a long-awaited environmental impact statement for managing the Missouri River, listing six possible options but refusing to back the only one […]

Drilling Ain't Job One

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling would result in only 46,300 jobs, far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of jobs cited by some unions, according to a […]

Sri-k of Horror

Sri Lanka’s proposed ban on genetically engineered foods has been delayed again, this time indefinitely. The ban would require 21 categories of food imports to be completely free of biotech […]