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It's My Prague-ative

Up to 30,000 anti-globalization protestors, including many enviros, are expected to descend on Prague in the Czech Republic this week during meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. […]

Come on and Easement Down, Easement Down the Road

Almost one-third of Maine’s 15 million acres of forest have been put on sale in the last two years, and conservationists are worried that a good deal of forestland now […]

Stand and De-Liverpool

Citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, are calling on Al Gore to make good on a 1992 campaign promise to crack down on a local hazardous waste incinerator, which is spewing […]

Everybody Cut Footloose

Enviros are asking drivers in 700 European cities to take part in a car-free day this Friday, hoping to spread awareness of the pollution and congestion problems caused by cars. […]

Cruisin' for a Bruisin'

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) blasted the cruise ship industry yesterday for polluting state waters and demanded that state and federal governments tighten “woefully inadequate” cruise ship regulations. Preliminary tests […]

Help Me, I'm Melting

In another sign that global warming is likely upon us, a study of ice cores from deep inside a glacier suggests that the last century has been the warmest in […]

Try Not to Breathe

Calling for the creation of an international database on air pollution and its health effects, the World Health Organization said this week that the people most at risk from air […]

The Cisco Kid Was No Friend of Mine

Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader lambasted Cisco Systems Inc. yesterday over its plans to construct a $1.3 billion campus on one of the last open spaces in California’s Silicon […]

Due for a Shell-acking

A U.S. court of appeals ruled yesterday that a lawsuit accusing Royal Dutch/Shell of assisting in the torture and murder of Nigerian environmental activists can be heard in the U.S., […]

A Campaign Stuck in Park?

Standing on a scenic cattle ranch in the battleground state of Washington yesterday, GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush pledged that he would increase funding for national parks by $3.75 […]