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Turtles in the Soup

Environmentalists are outraged after Mexican authorities gave approval earlier this month to five hotel chains to build a tourist center in a sea turtle sanctuary in southeastern Mexico near Cancun. […]

How Slow Can You Go?

Italians have launched a worldwide “eco-gastronomic” movement to save what they say are the latest endangered species — foods that are produced locally and organically, in contrast to mass-produced fast […]

Every Which Way But Loose Standards

Dissatisfied with the federal government’s efforts to control dirty emissions from buses and big trucks, 13 states have decided to join with California in trying to impose tighter controls on […]

Gym Dandy

To increase its chances of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing has ordered some of its biggest polluters to clean up their acts. A $1.25 billion cleanup project is aimed […]

Climate negotiators in The Hague have their work cut out for them

THE HAGUE, Netherlands Bill McKibben reports from The Hague: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five This month’s international climate negotiations in The Hague, though full of […]

Little Dutch Boy Withdraws Finger

Many of the 45,000 big dams that have been built around the world cost too much and have had negative impacts on the environment and the poor, according to a […]

Fleet Enemy

Japan sent its whaling fleet to sea today with much fanfare, including fireworks and a brass band. Despite angry international protests and the possibility of U.S. sanctions, the Japanese intend […]

Master of Their Dominion

Under a landmark court settlement, Dominion Virginia Power this week agreed to spend $1.2 billion to cut emissions at eight coal-fired power plants by 70 percent within 12 years. Currently […]

Top Banana

The world’s top banana producer, Chiquita, which grows about one-quarter of all bananas, announced its participation this week in the Better Banana Project, an environmental certification program requiring companies to […]

A Bitterroot to Swallow

After years of debate, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday that it would reintroduce grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana and central Idaho beginning in […]