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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 […]

Owling in the Wilderness

Ten environmental groups in the Northwest filed suit this month against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming that the agency has not done its duty to protect the northern […]

Oh, My Aching Corns

A new scientific study confirms a previous finding that pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn can kill monarch butterfly caterpillars, reigniting a heated debate over whether GM crops should be […]

Let's Whale on 'Em

Ambassadors and representatives of 15 nations joined together yesterday at the Japanese Foreign Ministry to protest Japan’s whale hunting, which the country claims is done for scientific research. President Clinton […]

An Uphill Climate

Sixteen environmental groups are banding together today in Switzerland to unveil a new Climate Voice website that lets visitors send messages to the world’s political leaders calling for action to […]