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P-Sea-B

Some 110 tons of PCB-contaminated waste that were forced out of Seattle’s port last month may now be headed for Johnston Island, a wildlife refuge and U.S. territory 700 miles […]

One Is the Loneliest Number

Almost 20 years after China began trying to limit its population growth with a strict one-child policy, the effort seems to have been undermined in many regions by corruption, uneven […]

Droughting Thomases

The planet is now hotter than at any time in recorded human history, according to research conducted at Texas A&M University and published in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science’s […]

Mad Max

Environmental activist Richard Max Strahan filed suit yesterday against Maine Gov. Angus King (I) and U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daly, asking a judge to order them and other officials to […]

Utilities Knifed

The New York state legislature approved a bill yesterday that aims to reduce air pollution drifting into New York from coal-burning power plants in Midwestern and Southern states. Under a […]

The Placer's All Mine

Placer Dome, a Canadian gold mining company that has been on the defensive ever since a devastating waste spill at one of its mines in the Philippines in 1996, is […]

Matt Zencey, Alaska Rainforest Campaign

Matt Zencey is campaign manager of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign. A 19-year resident of Anchorage, Alaska, Matt temporarily moved to Washington, D.C., last fall to expand the campaign’s national operation. […]

Certifiably Sane

Consumers and businesses will soon be able to buy a number of products and services that don’t cause any net greenhouse gases to be released into the environment, thanks to […]

Have a Coke and a Frown

Residents of a number of Colombian villages say their health, crops, and farm animals are being threatened by an American-sponsored program intended to wipe out heroin poppy and coca cultivation, […]

Leaf Me Alone

Reacting to mounting consumer unease about genetically modified (GM) foods, McDonald’s and other fast-food chains are quietly telling their french-fry suppliers to stop using Monsanto’s GM “New Leaf” potato, which […]