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Fishing for Votes

Commercial salmon fishing should be shut down in Washington state to save endangered salmon runs, says former radio talk show host John Carlson, the favorite to win the Republican primary […]

Hot Diggity Smog

The buzz a couple of weeks ago was that Los Angeles was set to regain the title of smoggiest city in the U.S. from Houston — but, hark, the race […]

My Gorge Is Rising

A combination of population growth, drought, desertification, water waste, and global warming is causing a serious water shortage in China that experts say could induce environmental and political crises. Officials […]

Papua Goes the Weasels

Papua New Guinea islanders filed suit yesterday in San Francisco against a London-based mining company, Rio Tinto PLC, over environmental and human rights abuses, acting under a federal law that […]

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Historically adversarial players in the Everglades restoration effort joined forces yesterday to support a plan working its way through Congress. Florida’s sugar industry, a number of environmental groups, the office […]

Sorry, Charlie-san

The U.S. and 18 other nations attending a meeting this week on migratory fish approved a plan on Tuesday to create a commission to regulate tuna catches in the Pacific […]

Rodham, Cowgirl!

The Sierra Club endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) yesterday in the hotly contested race to represent New York in the Senate. The move is viewed as a setback for Clinton’s […]

Didn't They Ever Read the Cherry Orchard?

Russian enviros are concerned that President Vladimir Putin is sacrificing environmental protection in pursuit of economic growth. Their biggest complaint is that Putin transferred the powers of the State Committee […]

Lactose Tolerant

Stonyfield Farm Inc., a New Hampshire-based yogurt company, is launching a new national print ad campaign that aims to promote environmental and social causes as well as its own cultured […]

Arsenal and Old Laws

The U.S. government’s reliance in the 1940s and 1950s on a large network of private plants, mills, and shops to build the country’s first nuclear arsenal led to huge environmental […]