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Sonar or Later

It is highly likely that Sonar transmissions from U.S. Navy ships caused an unprecedented number of whales and a dolphin to strand themselves in shallow waters off northern Bahama islands […]

Gone With the Flow

Severe drought is forcing dam operators in the Northwest to choose electricity generation over salmon. Under an emergency order issued last week that is expected to last much of the […]

Sorry States

The Bush administration wants to shift significant responsibility for enforcing federal environmental laws from the U.S. EPA to the states. The fiscal year 2002 budget proposed by the White House […]

The Unkindest Cuts

President Bush unveiled a budget yesterday for the next fiscal year that would slash spending on the environment and break a campaign promise he made to protect rainforests. In a […]

A Toad in the Coal Mine

Global warming may be contributing to the decline of the western toad and other amphibians, according to a study published last week in Nature. The western toad has been dying […]

Plan — Nein!

A federal judge in Idaho ruled last week that the U.S. Forest Service under President Clinton did not follow public-disclosure requirements before settling on a plan to ban road-building and […]

A Light Truck at the End of the Tunnel

After jeering at its competitors Ford and General Motors last year for promising to improve the fuel efficiency of their light trucks and SUVs by almost 25 percent over five […]

Support Can Be Beautiful

European Union officials today said they had won China’s support of the Kyoto treaty on climate change. On Sunday, Chinese Environment Minster Xie Zhenhua joined environmental ministers from South Korea […]

Wolong, Farewell

The forests of China’s largest panda preserve are being destroyed four times faster than before the park was created in 1975, according to a study published last week in the […]

No Laughing Matter

With jokes about President Bush’s anti-environmental policies getting center-stage attention on late-night talk shows, the White House has gone into spin mode, trying to put a green lustre on its […]