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Reinventing the Wheels

After more than a century of causing horrendous pollution, the auto industry is undergoing a green revolution, writes Jim Motavalli in Grist. Spurred by air pollution laws, the specter of […]

Baked Alaska

The polar ice cap has thinned by 40 percent in the last 30 years, according to preliminary findings presented this week at a conference of the Arctic Research Consortium of […]

Revenge of the Nerds

A coalition of enviros and high-tech philanthropists in Washington state is launching a three-year campaign to raise at least $25 million in private donations and leverage at least $100 million […]

The Sweat of Our Brower

Pioneering environmental activist David Brower resigned from the board of the Sierra Club yesterday, complaining that the group has become too bureaucratic and its leadership has lost its sense of […]

Bush Whiffs on Another Enviro Issue

Weak environmental regulations in Texas have led to a big influx of industrial livestock operations that are hazards to public health and the environment, says a report issued yesterday by […]

Seedy Dealings

Tempers are flaring in Europe this week as hundreds of farmers in England, France, Germany, and Sweden have found out that they unwittingly planted genetically modified (GM) rapeseed oil crops, […]

Ford Better or Ford Worse?

Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it would make a 25 percent cut in production of its gas-guzzling Ford Excursion for the 2001 model year, but pinned the decision to […]

There Was Something in the Air That Night, the Stars Were Bright, Fernando

In a victory for enviros, leaders in the Brazilian Congress yesterday dropped a bill that would have cut the protected portion of the nation’s Amazon region from 80 percent down […]

Dear John

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) signed an executive order yesterday that calls on the state government to work toward environmental sustainability by making more efficient use of materials and emphasizing […]

Globalization in Over Drive

One outcome of China’s expected entry into the World Trade Organization is likely to be a dramatic rise in car ownership among the nation’s 1.3 billion citizens, a possibility that […]