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Snow Shoos

A top official in Yellowstone National Park says the snowmobile industry has failed to provide useful information about new technologies that would justify overturning a ban on snowmobiling in the […]

On De Loose

Greenpeace U.K. is in a tizzy because of mysterious DNA found in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybeans, the world’s most widely grown genetically engineered crop. The unexpected string of DNA, which […]

Going With the Wind

“The Pacific Northwest is well on its way to becoming the wind capital of the U.S.,” says Tom Gray of the American Wind Energy Association. For example, the new Stateline […]

World Bunker

Citing the disruptiveness of protests and a fear of violence, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have decided to cram their annual meetings into two days next month […]

Bug Bang Boom

A California appeals court ruled yesterday that pesticide companies can be sued over concerns that home bug sprays are making people sick. The court in Los Angeles rejected arguments by […]

Spell 'Pig' Backwards and Say 'Funny'

In a pioneering study examining the exposure of urban and suburban children to household pesticides, all but one of 96 Seattle-area preschool children were found to have trace levels of […]

Green Lantern

Thanks to new LED lamps, thousands of green traffic lights in the Los Angeles area have been retrofitted to use 80 percent less electricity than in the past. The old […]

Edward Sullivan, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

Edward Sullivan is the director of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, a grassroots force for wilderness in New Mexico. He previously worked for the Sierra Club in Washington, D.C. Monday, […]

Oil Is Thicker Than Blood

Police in Nigeria this weekend shot and killed a demonstrator who was protesting against an oil spill at a Royal Dutch/Shell field, reports the independent newspaper ThisDay. Gabriel Ayoko, a […]

Smacked Down

The World Wildlife Fund won a legal battle on Friday to limit the World Wrestling Federation’s use of the initials WWF. A High Court judge in London ruled that the […]