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Super Models

Two studies published today in the journal Science provide some of the strongest evidence yet that global warming is here and humans are to blame. The studies, based on computer […]

Holy Mackerel!

Federal guidelines to protect women of child-bearing age and babies from mercury in seafood are inadequate, according to a report released yesterday by the Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public […]

Smoky Mountains

Concerned that North Carolina’s mountains are being choked by pollution from coal-fired power plants, all 50 members in the state’s Senate have asked President Bush to clean up the smokestacks […]

Sh*tty Group?

Students gathered in about 80 cities around the world yesterday to protest Citigroup’s role in funding environmentally destructive projects. At the company’s headquarters in New York City, demonstrators tossed the […]

It's a Hard-rocks Life for Us

The amount of toxic chemicals emitted by industry in the U.S. grew by 5 percent in 1999, the U.S. EPA said yesterday in its annual Toxics Release Inventory. Two-thirds of […]

Nature Nurtures

Contact with nature may have therapeutic effects, says a professor of occupational and environmental medicine at Emory University. Writing this month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Howard Frumkin […]

Victor, You Go!

The administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox sent a tax reform bill to the Mexican Congress last week that contains strong environmental protection and cleanup provisions. Environment Minister Victor Lichtinger […]

Where's the Beef Report?

The chemical, beef, and poultry industries are lobbying the U.S. EPA to stall even longer before releasing a final report showing that animal fat and dairy products containing tiny amounts […]

Way Cool

The second-largest air-conditioner manufacturer in the U.S., Goodman Manufacturing, is asking the Bush administration not to roll back a rule approved by former President Clinton requiring new air conditioners to […]

Weeping and A-whalin'

Drawing the ire of environmentalists, Japanese whaling ships returned to harbor this morning with a catch of 440 minke whales after five months at sea. The catch was within the […]