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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Monday, 8 Jan 2001 STELLENBOSCH, South Africa Timm, the leader of the project I am […]
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That Can-do Spirit
Industry experts say Brazil will recycle about 80 percent of the 9.5 billion aluminum cans sold in the country in 2000, putting it on pace to match Japan’s trend-setting rate […]
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Kicking a Two-pack-a-day Habit
The air in Mexico City — described by the U.N. in 1992 as the world’s worst — seems to be getting cleaner. Even as the number of cars and people […]
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What's Mine Is Theirs, What's Theirs Is Mine
A coalition of Canadian and U.S. environmental groups submitted a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt yesterday, asking him to help protect the Taku River watershed from mining. The […]
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The Rules of the Roadless
Pres. Clinton today moved to put almost a third of the country’s national forestland forever off-limits to road-building and commercial logging. The rule to protect 58.5 million acres of land […]
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Shape Up, Don't Ship Out
Environmental groups in India are protesting a plan by a U.S. company to ship about 120 tons of used mercury to India. The chemical company HoltraChem produced the waste mercury […]
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Lean, Green Electoral Machine
Although Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader received only 3 percent of the popular vote nationally, 32 of 240 other Green candidates won elections in 12 states. In all, the […]
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Throwing It in Reverse
In a private letter to President-elect George W. Bush, Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah), the incoming chair of the House Resources Committee, has proposed reversing a wide range of the Clinton’s […]
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Road Worriers
Negotiations between environmental groups and Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) over how to balance air quality and road-building in the Atlanta metro area collapsed this week. The two sides were […]
