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Bye, Bye Birdwatchers

For perhaps the first time, an environmental group, the Nature Conservancy, has landed among the top 10 of U.S charities ranked by income. The conservancy sat at No. 9 on […]

The Fisher Is King

Fearful that a lawsuit filed by enviros might lead to a court-ordered logging injunction in the Sierra Nevada in California, the U.S. Forest Service next week will initiate its own […]

Kris Williams is saving sea turtles in Georgia

Kris Williams is the “Turtle Babe” of Wassaw Island. At 33, the attractive, square-jawed blonde heads the oldest volunteer-based sea turtle conservation project in North America. What a babe. Optimism […]

Well Hello, Dolly

Making a U-tern

Stoking the fires of the Midwest’s most contentious environmental issue, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed yesterday that the flow of water in […]

You Picked a Fine Time to Fund Me, Lucille

Halfway through a five-year effort to preserve wildlife habitat and farmland in Central California, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation issued a report yesterday saying that it could not go […]

Panda-monium

Two decades into the effort to save giant pandas in China from extinction, the greatest remaining threat to pandas may be poor farmers. Chinese authorities estimate that only about 1,000 […]

Whooping Ukraine

Greenpeace leaked a report coming out of Austria yesterday that questions the safety of two nuclear plants meant to succeed reactors at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The report to the […]

Let's Make a Deal

In the wake of the collapsed climate change talks last weekend in The Hague, Netherlands, the Clinton administration has proposed that top officials from the U.S. and the European Union […]

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Weary, Your Spent Nuclear Fuel

Russian officials dealt a blow to environmentalists yesterday by rejecting their petition for a national referendum that would have let citizens vote on whether to allow the import of spent […]