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What a Long, Range Trip It's Been

Some 100 environmentalists convened in Reno, Nev., yesterday to push for an end to all livestock grazing on federal lands in the U.S., a notion once considered radical but now […]

Ouch of Africa

Nations throughout Africa, with their populations soaring, are facing dilemmas as they try to grow their economies and stem poverty without destroying their unique wildlife and landscapes. In Cameroon, 90 […]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in hazardous-waste cleanup costs, General Electric asked a U.S. federal court yesterday to declare the Superfund law unconstitutional. In its lawsuit, the company contends […]

Monsanto: We Should Have Been More Honest About Misleading You

Monsanto announced yesterday that it will restrict sales next year of one variety of genetically modified corn and delay until 2002 the introduction of another in order to avoid disrupting […]

Any Way You Slice It, This Sucks

Someone recently used a chainsaw to slice into Luna, the 1,000-year-old redwood made famous by Julia "Butterfly" Hill. Hill lived in the tree in Northern California for two years to […]

Close Line

A cold snap and resulting power-line failures forced the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to shut down yesterday, three weeks before it is due to be closed for good. […]

To Drink Perchlorate Is Human

In what may be the first large-scale study to use volunteers to test the effect of a water pollutant on humans, the aerospace behemoth Lockheed Martin is funding research in […]

I'm Going to Pop You One

More than 120 countries are slated to meet in December in South Africa for a final meeting to draft a global treaty restricting the production of 12 persistent organic pollutants […]

Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment

Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Monday, 27 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Today, […]

That Sinking Feeling

International climate talks in The Hague, Netherlands, collapsed on Saturday, with U.S. and European negotiators unable to agree on a plan for reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Two weeks […]