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Hail the Cabs!

Nearly 300 taxi, bus, and truck drivers clogged traffic by driving slowly through downtown Hong Kong yesterday to demand government action to combat air pollution, then marched to government headquarters […]

Brad Guy, Center for Construction and Environment

Brad Guy is interim director of the Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. His work focuses on “green” architecture and sustainable community development. Monday, 8 May […]

Home Is Where the Recycled Drywall Is

A growing number of Americans are opting to use eco-friendly materials when remodeling or building homes, and some suppliers are meeting their demand with new green products. Trex Co. in […]

Sound's Good

British Columbia’s Clayoquot Sound, an area of old-growth forest, was designated a United Nations biosphere reserve on Friday, perhaps ushering in a new era for a region that has been […]

Kickin' Asthma, Taking Names

Air pollution from two coal-burning power plants in Massachusetts can be linked to more than 43,000 asthma attacks and an estimated 159 premature deaths each year, according to a study […]

Corning the Market

Two powerful farm-state senators introduced a bipartisan bill yesterday that would triple the use of ethanol over the coming decade and help replace the controversial gasoline additive MTBE. The bill, […]

Seven Brydes for Seven Samurai?

Japan, which has stirred up controversy for more than a decade by hunting minke whales ostensibly for scientific research, now plans to expand its hunt to include sperm and Bryde’s […]

There's Goldfish in Them Thar Streams

The diversity of fish species in America is in serious decline, according to new research published in today’s issue of the journal Science. Small populations of native fish have gone […]

Hot Under the Flea Collar

The U.S. EPA is gearing up to restrict the use of chlorpyrifos, which is one of the most widely used insecticides in the U.S. and has been linked to memory […]

What About Danish Seamen?

Forty-three percent of 700 Danish army recruits tested have sperm counts so low that they could have trouble fathering children, according to research published in the journal Human Reproduction. The […]