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Give a Hoot, Let Us Pollute

Foreign and trade ministers from several developing countries, led by Malaysia, are pushing for the world’s industrialized nations to give up their requests that environmental and labor standards be made […]

The border patrol is threatening two endangered cats in Texas

The Texas-Mexico border has long been a setting for political skirmishes, a conflict zone where figures hide in shadows hoping to find a loophole in the paramilitary operations that attend […]

If They Could Just Harness All That Hot Air …

While government representatives in The Hague quibble over ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Germans are making some real progress in adopting clean energy. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, […]

For the Crater Good

While George W. Bush and Al Gore continued to duke it out over the White House, President Clinton exercised his executive authority yesterday by creating a new national monument in […]

The Green-ch Who Stole Christmas?

Some enviros and others who voted for Ralph Nader are now regretting their choice, fearing that it gave George W. Bush an advantage over Al Gore. In the chat room […]

The Importance of Being Ernesto

In an effort to protect the winter nesting grounds of monarch butterflies, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo expanded a forest reserve in central Mexico yesterday. Local residents and giant logging companies […]

Dombeck Rules!

U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck officially instituted new rules yesterday requiring that ecosystem health be the No. 1 priority in managing national forests. The agency previously required its managers […]

Chair-ish the Thought

Much to the distress of environmentalists, Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah) is poised to become the next chair of the House Resources Committee, which deals with all bills related to wilderness, […]

I Do Know Why, 'Cause There's Carbon in the Sky, Stormy Weather

Representatives of some 180 countries will gather in the Hague, Netherlands, next Monday to begin two weeks of talks to nail down the details of how to implement the Kyoto […]

Surveillance Says …

Brazil launched a $435 million program yesterday to fight illegal logging, mining, and drug trafficking in the Amazon rainforest, which is home to about 50 percent of the world’s plant […]