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Oh, Blast!

Underwater noise or explosions caused healthy beaked whales to beach themselves in the Bahamas in March just as the Navy was conducting underwater tests in the area, according to a […]

The Powers That Won't Be

The German government and energy companies today reached an agreement to shut down the nation’s 19 nuclear power plants by about 2020. The deal, which comes after more than 18 […]

Micheal Phillips, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Michael Phillips is a scuba technician and archaeological diver for Tidewater Atlantic Research in Washington, N.C. He is the operations and communications specialist at Aquarius, where a team of six […]

Crime Me a River

It will soon be a crime to harm salmon or steelhead in some urban areas in the Northwest. The National Marine Fisheries Service is planning to announce rules to that […]

Many Happy Returns

Europeans would be able to return their outdated electrical goods to the products’ manufacturers under a new law proposed by the European Commission yesterday. The proposal aims to cut down […]

Surplus With a Smile

Al Gore pledged yesterday that if he’s elected president, he will use some of the federal government’s surplus to create a National Energy Security and Environment Trust Fund, which would, […]

Profit in the Wilderness

An Australian company, Earth Sanctuaries Ltd., is aiming to turn a profit by protecting land and wildlife. The company, one of the first of its kind in the world, operates […]

Jim Leichter, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Jim Leichter is a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This is his fourth saturation diving mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days […]

Mercury in Retrograde

The Clean Air Network, a coalition of nearly 1,000 enviro groups, called on the U.S. EPA yesterday to require some 600 old, coal-burning power plants to reduce their mercury emissions […]

A Clean Slade?

Conservative Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) has entered into an odd alliance with the Sierra Club to push for higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. At a press conference […]