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Hawaii K.O.

Hawaii may seem like a tropical paradise teeming with beautiful animals and plants, but what tourists don’t know is that many of the archipelago’s common species are non-native, and its […]

Dorm!!!

Northland College in Ashland, Wis., is giving 90 students the chance to live in one of the most eco-friendly dorms in the U.S. The $4.1 million Environmental Living and Learning […]

Heard It Through the Pipeline

With wholesale prices for natural gas doubling in the last year, environmental concerns are taking a back seat as energy companies make plans to build one, maybe two, pipelines to […]

The Nitro of the Living Dead

In the past few decades, industrialization, population growth, and the heavy use of chemical fertilizers have doubled the amount of nitrogen in circulation, contributing to environmental problems worldwide and possibly […]

Cape Crusaders

South Africa outlined a sweeping conservation plan yesterday to protect biodiversity and estuaries across 35,000 square miles of the Cape Floral Kingdom, a region in the southwestern part of the […]

Beachy Keen

Congress passed a bill yesterday to expand the testing of coastal waters for pathogens and encourage states to warn beach goers when water is contaminated, and President Clinton is expected […]

Good Ideas in Short Supply

Believing that Al Gore is vulnerable on the issue of high oil prices, George W. Bush is planning to unveil an energy policy on Friday. It will include steps to […]

A New Lease on Life

Washington, D.C.-based Conservation International is trying a new approach to saving natural areas in developing countries: leasing trees. CI is working on a deal to buy the logging rights for […]

MTVP

In an MTV town meeting yesterday in Ann Arbor, Mich., Al Gore said that after long deliberation he had sided with paper bags over plastic, more out of personal preference […]

Cruise Controls

The U.S. Justice Department has joined Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) and environmentalists in criticizing proposed cruise ship legislation sponsored by Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), saying it would legalize the […]