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Good as Goldman

Vera Mischenko, a lawyer who established Russia’s first public-interest environmental law firm, is one of eight grassroots activists from around the world who today will receive prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes. […]

Denis Hayes, Earth Day Network

Denis Hayes is chair of Earth Day Network. He was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970 and now earns his keep as president of the Bullitt […]

Damn Those Snakes!

Federal officials say they are likely to delay making a recommendation about the fate of four dams on the Snake River in southeastern Washington until after the November presidential election. […]

This Stresses Me Out — I Need a Nice Cup of Herbal Tea

The growing popularity of herbal medicine, particularly in Western countries, is threatening the survival of a number of valuable wild plants, according to delegates to the U.N. Convention on International […]

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise

A House-Senate conference committee yesterday dropped from a major budget bill a controversial provision that could have opened the way for oil and gas drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic […]

Wind Without Sales

Construction is set to begin today on seven towering windmills that together will constitute the largest wind power project in the Eastern U.S. Most wind farms in the nation have […]

Book 'Em

Vice President Al Gore, in a new foreword to his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, renews his call to eliminate all internal combustion engines and take dramatic steps to […]

Spencer for Higher

Greenpeace is claiming moral victory after 13.5 percent of votes cast at BP Amoco’s annual shareholders meeting yesterday supported a Greenpeace-backed resolution that calls on the company to stop oil […]

Fire on the Mountain

Enviros are upset over what they fear may be an impending cave-in by the Clinton-Gore administration on the issue of mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. A federal judge ruled last […]

Giving Pandas a Leg Up

Some captive male pandas in China will soon be given the anti-impotence drug Viagra to boost their sex drive in an attempt to save the species from extinction. Scientists have […]