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Giving Climate Change the Byrd

Very rarely do the words “climate change” or “greenhouse gases” appear in President Bush’s energy plan. A group of 250 scientists is circulating a letter to the public arguing that […]

Vermonty Haul

Explaining his motivation to leave the Republican Party and become an Independent, U.S. Sen. James Jeffords (Vt.) this morning listed “energy and the environment” as two of the “fundamental issues” […]

Rats.

Officials are conducting tests off the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island — one of the world’s most well-known feeding grounds for whales, dolphins, and seals — after a […]

They've Got Balls

Vice President Dick Cheney was greeted by two standing ovations from the crowd yesterday at the annual conference sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Institute. Cheney is the architect of the […]

Pop the Corks

Delegates from 127 countries yesterday formally moved to adopt a treaty to ban or reduce the use of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemicals such as PCBs and pesticides that […]

With a Knick-knack, Sarawack

Elsewhere in Malaysia, the $5 billion, 2,400-megawatt Bakun Dam project is slated to flood a rainforest area the size of Singapore. The government says the dam is needed to help […]

I Shout, the Shariff

The mayor of Kuala Lumpur, Kamaruzzaman Shariff, announced plans earlier this week to clean up the city by adopting Singapore-style laws to punish litterbugs. He said that contractors in the […]

How Do We Sleep While Our Labs Are Burning?

Federal authorities believe that two fires in the Northwest may have been set early on Monday by environmentalists opposed to genetic engineering. The arson at the University of Washington in […]

Linking Logs

Huge Asian timber companies now control 90 percent of the $10 billion tropical timber trade and are posing a new threat to the world’s tropical rainforests, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer […]

A Good Yarn

Fairy penguins on the Australian island state of Tasmania are gearing up to survive the winter, as tiny wool jerseys arrive from around the world to help them cope with […]