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We Thought They'd Never Notice

New York Gov. George Pataki (R) yesterday signed into law the nation’s most stringent bill on notification of pesticide spraying. The law requires schools and day care facilities to give […]

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary

Grassroots opposition is springing up against massive dairy operations in California, with environmentalists and community activists worried about the millions of pounds of manure produced by facilities with thousands and […]

That Really Hits the Spot

We could preserve a sizable chunk of the world’s plant and animal species by protecting a mere 1.4 percent of the earth’s land surface, or 25 biologically rich “hot spots,” […]

Deborah Schultz, Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program

Deborah Schultz is the education coordinator for the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, a watershed restoration program in southeast Louisiana. Monday, 21 Aug 2000 THIBODAUX, La. Today I will travel 20 […]

Run for It, Santa!

For the first time in perhaps 50 million years, the thick ice covering the North Pole has melted, opening up an ice-free stretch of ocean about a mile wide, according […]

Cherry Bomb

Some Ontario lawn-care companies have begun covering up the smell of toxic pesticides with fragrances like bubble gum, mint, and cherry. Enviros and others worry that this new trend could […]

There's Methane to His Madness

James Hansen, a respected global warming expert and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has spent nearly two decades urging countries to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide […]

Conventional Wisdom

Al Gore may not have spent much time on the environment in his speech last night, but organizers of the Democratic National Convention said they did their darndest to make […]

Claws for Alarm

Blaming pesticide manufacturers for the deaths of thousands of lobsters last year in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York lobstermen on Monday are planning to file suit against the […]

Cheetahs Never Prosper

A well-known ecologist in Africa is charging that the Zimbabwe government’s policy of redistributing land owned by white farmers to poor blacks may create an environmental “disaster” threatening the country’s […]