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General Excitement?

General Motors Corp. announced today that within a few years it will begin producing fuel-efficient, hybrid gas-electric versions of its full-size pickup trucks and city buses, just days after Ford […]

Cheney on the Brainy

The Democratic Party has unveiled new TV commercials that lambaste the environmental records of George W. Bush and his running mate Dick Cheney, just in time for the Republican National […]

Space Invaders

A number of scientists are warning that the spread of invasive species could become the next big environmental crisis. Some of the invasives are brought into non-native areas deliberately, but […]

Shape Up or Ship Out

The cruise ship industry has been hit with bad press lately for some high-profile pollution cases involving the illegal dumping of oil-contaminated water and other pollution into the channels and […]

A Gab Fest

Gabon’s government reached an agreement last month with the country’s major logging companies and an assortment of environmental groups to permanently protect a 1,900-square-mile tropical rainforest reserve rich with large […]

Smells Fishy

Even low levels of common pesticides can disturb the ability of salmon to smell, possibly reducing their chances of survival, according to research by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Salmon […]

Republican Riders in the Saddle Again

Congress’s efforts to pass the massive bills that authorize government spending are being tied up because some Republicans insist on attaching to the bills unrelated amendments called “riders,” many of […]

Smokin' Reefers

Tropical waters in the Northern Hemisphere have been heating up at a dramatic rate, about 1 degree Fahrenheit per decade since 1984, contributing to the unprecedented bleaching of coral reefs […]

Weird Science

In a move that has angered the international community, Japan sent out a fleet of ships into the North Pacific on Saturday with the aim of killing three species of […]

Beyond a Shadow of a Drought

China is enduring one of the worst droughts in its history, and many experts are worrying that the nation is running out of water for its 1.3 billion people. Some […]