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Logging on the Skids

After nine years of political battles and scientific studies, the U.S. Forest Service this week released a broad management plan for California’s Sierra Nevada range that would emphasize wildlife protection […]

Green Mountain's Green's Mountin'

Oil giant BP Amoco and a group of unnamed investors announced yesterday that they will invest as much as $100 million in GreenMountain.com, a company that sells renewable energy and […]

Celling Like Hot Cakes

Texaco yesterday announced a sizable investment in fuel-cell technology, agreeing to pay $67.3 million for a 20 percent stake in Energy Conversion Devices Inc., an alternative energy company. Texaco plans […]

Cutting Through the Crop

The Clinton-Gore administration today is unveiling a proposal to tighten the regulation of genetically modified (GM) foods, but the plan falls far short of what consumer and enviro groups say […]

Wet's the Matter?

1.1 billion — the number of people worldwide who lack an adequate and safe supply of water for their daily needs, approximately one in five 5 million — the number […]

A Site for Sore Eyes

GreaterGood.com, an online shopping portal dedicated to charitable giving, yesterday launched the Rainforest Site, a website that lets people protect 19.2 square feet of rainforest with a single click of […]

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 […]