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The Environmentalist Currently Known As Prince

Britain’s Prince Philip (you know, the queen’s husband) warned today that the Danube River is on a path toward ecological disaster unless European governments rally to save it. The prince, […]

Roslyn Cameron, Charles Darwin Research Station

Roslyn Cameron is public support and outreach coordinator at the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galapagos Islands. Monday, 30 Apr 2001 ISLA SANTA CRUZ, Galapagos A five-minute ride along […]

Poll Position

Only 38 percent of the American public approves of the way President Bush is handling the environment, according to a poll taken this week by CBS News. More than twice […]

The Bonneville Horror

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) on Wednesday said the Bonneville Power Administration and other federal agencies were not fulfilling their obligations to help salmon in the midst of a drought […]

The Fool on Capitol Hill

Some Labor Party members in the U.K. are publicly deriding U.S. President Bush as the “toxic Texan” and “the fool on Capitol Hill” for his stance on climate change. In […]

Their Side of the Mountain

A federal appeals panel earlier this week dismissed a lower court’s ruling that mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia violates environmental law by burying hundreds of miles of streams under tons […]

Um. Haven't We Learned Anything?

People across the former Soviet Union offered their prayers yesterday to victims of the Chernobyl disaster, 15 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government […]

Credit Cars

Ford, Toyota, and Honda are working with environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists to urge Congress to pass tax credits for people who […]

Reserve Judgment

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and the state cabinet unanimously approved a plan yesterday to create the largest no-fishing zone in the U.S. The Tortugas Ecological Reserve, which lies 70 […]

Double, Double for Soil and Trouble

Laying the groundwork for what may become the first environmental law signed by President Bush, the U.S. Senate yesterday voted 99-0 to more than double spending to clean up of […]