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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 […]

Delhi Order: Hold the Pollution

Thousands of workers and factory owners took to the streets in New Delhi, India, last week following an order by the Supreme Court to shut down polluting factories in residential […]

They're Not Making a List, They're Not Checking It Twice

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared last week that it would not add any animals or plants to the endangered species list until next fall because it is so […]

Pool's Paradise

Environmentalists and private landowners in Mexico struck an agreement last week to protect 7,000 acres of the Mexican desert, one of the largest private land conservation deals in the country, […]

The Sound and the Flurry

The Clinton administration is preparing to implement a flurry of controversial regulations on environmental and other issues before a new president moves into the White House on 20 Jan. The […]