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The Tortoise and the Scare

An Ecuadorean oil tanker that ran aground about 550 yards off one of the Galapagos Islands began spilling oil on Friday, posing a major threat to the rare bird and […]

2100: A Heat Odyssey

By 2100, the average world temperature could rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report released today in Shanghai by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. […]

Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, “unmanageable by any earthly force though they […]

Heavy Sigh-anide

A cyanide spill in northeastern Romania has killed thousands of fish and now poses a health hazard to humans, government officials said yesterday. The spill occurred when the contents of […]

NOPEC, No Way, No How

Queensland state leaders in Australia have delighted enviros by pressing the federal government to reject a plan to explore for oil near the Great Barrier Reef. The federal environment minister, […]

Getting Their Just Deserts

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and enviros reached an agreement this week to reduce road access and add protections for species in 11.5 million acres of desert in Southern […]

Norton, Your Life

In a Senate hearing yesterday that had Democrats lining up on one side, Republicans on the other, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary, Gale Norton, described herself as a both […]

Amazon.gone

As little as 5 percent of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil may remain as pristine forest by 2020, according to a study published today in the journal Science. The researchers […]

50,000,000 Maine-iacs

The Nature Conservancy said yesterday that it had raised $50 million to conserve land in Maine, the group’s most expensive conservation project yet. Thirty million dollars will buy 185,000 acres […]

Label's Love Lost

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed rules for companies to voluntarily label foods that aren’t genetically engineered — but it refused requests from environmental and consumer groups to […]