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Gone Fission
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where a reactor melted down and spewed radiation 14 years ago in the world’s worst nuclear accident, was shut down with a simple flip of […]
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Going Ape
Wildlife got a break in the Republic of Congo yesterday when the government quadrupled the size of Odzala National Park to 3.2 million acres, about half the size of Vermont. […]
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In the Forest, the Mighty Forest, the Lyons Speaks Tonight
“It would be a feather in the cap” of the logging industry if it stopped cutting down old-growth trees, Undersecretary of Agriculture Jim Lyons said earlier this week. Lyons, who […]
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Hold the Anchovies
Hake, cod, and anchovy populations are being driven towards extinction in European waters and fisheries ministers are meeting today to debate whether to cut catch quotas by up to 74 […]
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Vex and the City
Dust and soot in the air contribute to between 20 and 200 early deaths a day across 20 of the largest cities in the U.S., according to a new study […]
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The End of the World As We Know It?
What will President Bush’s environmental policies mean to the American West? Observers say the Bush administration will be friendly to developers and the logging, grazing, and mining industries, and have […]
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Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for Snake River dams?
Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river’s imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. […]
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The Blues and the Graze
The U.S. government is calling for more timber harvesting and less grazing on 64 million acres in the eastern part of the Northwest as part of the largest federal land-use […]
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Yuck Is Mountin'
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place […]
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Blubber Clubbers
Canadian officials are denying they have decided to curb the annual seal hunt off of Newfoundland, by far the largest cull of marine mammals in the world. Based on an […]
