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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 […]

Biking the Hand That Feeds You

Pedal Express, a bicycle delivery company in Berkeley, Calif., has teamed up with a local nonprofit youth group to run a program that delivers fresh organic produce to Berkeley residents. […]

Toad Kill

Frogs, toads, and other amphibians throughout the world are disappearing at an alarming rate, according to the biggest statistical study of the topic ever completed, published in today’s issue of […]

That Leaves Plenty of Room for a Disney Rainforest Theme Park

Illegal logging and farming in Brazil’s Amazon last year destroyed 6,347 square miles of rainforest, an area bigger than Hawaii, according to a report released this week by the Brazilian […]