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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise

The U.S. EPA and the Energy Department summoned executives from the nation’s biggest oil companies to Washington, D.C., yesterday to make them explain why gas prices are rising markedly in […]

Maine Squeeze

Under pressure from a lawsuit filed by enviros, the federal government has agreed to make a decision by Nov. 17 on whether to list Atlantic salmon in Maine rivers as […]

Hannah Stewart, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Hannah Stewart is the controlled flow environment specialist on the mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below […]

Getting Your Goat

Large herds of goats and flocks of sheep are being used in woods and fields across the U.S. to reduce the risk of forest fires and protect native plants by […]

To Summit All Up

During a campaign swing through Washington state on Friday, Al Gore pledged that he would convene a salmon summit if elected president, bringing together all interested parties to help hammer […]

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 […]

Dino Might!

Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. […]

Chinese Water Torture

Beijing plans to crack down on water use in homes and businesses as northern China faces a severe drought that is drying up rivers and destroying crops. The city’s worst […]

A Tribe Called Quest

Conservationists cheered a Friday ruling by a federal appeals court that ordered the U.S. government to reconsider its decision to let the Makah Indian tribe of Washington state hunt migratory […]

Quit Your Blubbering

Norwegian whalers resumed their controversial hunt last month, despite a collapsed market for whale blubber. The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but Norway began hunting again in […]