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Born in the Sign of Cancer

Exposure to toxic chemicals in food, water, and air may be leading to a dramatic surge in childhood cancers, asthma, and sudden infant death syndrome in Canadian children, according to […]

Fine, Dandy

Chevron yesterday agreed to pay a record $7 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the feds, which claimed that the oil giant had violated the Clean Air Act at […]

L.A.-L.A.-Pollutza

Los Angeles is outpacing Houston in the race for the title of America’s smoggiest city. So far this year, L.A. has had 34 days when ozone in the air exceeded […]

Welcome Back, Carter

Former President Carter said yesterday that President Clinton should designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a national monument “without further delay,” shielding it from the threat […]

Commission: Possible

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state’s top environmental body, acknowledged yesterday that global warming may pose threats to the state and said it would explore ways to reduce […]

See Spot Live

The World Bank, Conservation International, and the Global Environment Facility joined together yesterday to unveil a new $150 million fund aimed at preserving biodiversity by protecting “hot spots,” or threatened […]

The Cutting Edge

A key committee in the California state Senate voted yesterday to ban clear-cutting in the state on public and private land, a move that would be unprecedented in the U.S. […]

How Does This Sound?

Loggers in the Clayoquot Sound region of British Columbia chopped down a few old-growth trees yesterday to the sound of cheers from Canadian environmentalists. After a bitter, 17-year battle over […]

Not Just a Fluke

Whale watching has become a booming $1 billion-a-year industry, bringing a new, generally eco-friendly form of income to many cash-strapped areas around the world, according to a report released yesterday […]

My Sediments Exactly

After years of scientific and legal wrangling, the U.S. EPA began an experiment yesterday off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California to test whether DDT-contaminated sediments on the ocean floor […]