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If It Weren't for Those Medaling Kids …

Next month’s Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, have been billed as the “Green Games,” but Greenpeace says Olympic organizers deserve only a bronze medal for their efforts to make the […]

Gore in the Stocks

As President Clinton sang Al Gore’s praises yesterday to kick off the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a few thousand protestors raised their voices outside the convention hall, many […]

Who Were Those Masked Men?

Hundreds of NATO peacekeepers wearing surgical masks shut down a lead smelter in Kosovo yesterday, citing environmental dangers caused by its emissions, which have been measured at levels 200 times […]

Road Warriors

Environmentalists in Vietnam are battling a national highway project which they say threatens endangered wildlife. Construction began in April on the Ho Chi Minh Highway, which is planned to run […]

O Solar Mio

Events like the current heat wave in California, which is stressing the state’s electricity system and pushing energy prices up, are leading a growing number of businesses and homeowners to […]

Shalini Ramanathan, Global Village of Beijing

Shalini Ramanathan works with Global Village of Beijing, a Chinese environmental group. Previously, she was international coordinator of the Earth Day 2000 campaign, based in Seattle, Wash. Monday, 14 Aug […]

Pulling Another Babbitt Out of the Hat

U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Friday recommended the creation of a new national monument near the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and the expansion of an existing monument in […]

Fit to Be Thai-ed

Environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Thailand are waging a fierce fight against a proposed coal-fired power plant along the shore of the Gulf of Thailand, a project that they […]

Yelling Fire in a Crowded Political Theater

Texas Gov. George W. Bush, campaigning in the Northwest over the weekend, defended himself against accusations that his state is an environmental mess. He claimed that Texas’s air and water […]

A Silent Spring in His Step

Al Gore called for a renewed commitment to environmental protection during a Saturday campaign stop at the Pennsylvania birthplace of environmental pioneer Rachel Carson. He spoke of how her groundbreaking […]