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Out With the Blades of Glory

The cost of wind power in Scandinavia is dropping as technology improves and competition mounts, but a new challenge may be overcoming public objections that modern windmills are eyesores. Denmark, […]

Flee Willy!

British Columbia’s southern population of orcas may be in trouble, a point emphasized last weekend when one of the orcas washed up dead on shore, its body highly contaminated with […]

In Hot Water

Contaminated plumes of groundwater under the Nevada Test Site, where 828 underground nuclear tests were conducted between 1956 and 1992, may travel beyond the borders of the site toward populated […]

Forgive Them Their Debts

President Clinton, who is travelling through South Asia this week, announced yesterday that the U.S. will spend $50 million over four years to promote clean-energy projects in India, Nepal, and […]

Just for the Halibut

Thousands of rare sea birds and hundreds of marine mammals are being entangled and killed in fishing nets in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off California’s central coast — […]

That's Why They Call Him the "Vice" President

Vice President Al Gore is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism from enviros and others because of his cozy ties to Occidental Petroleum. Gore — who owns as much as […]

The Road to Hell Is Paved By the Brazilian Government?

The Brazilian government’s plans to repair and pave four highways could lead to the deforestation of up to 72,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest over the next 25 to […]

Strife of the Party

Germany’s Green Party has abandoned its goal of immediate closure for all the nation’s nuclear power plants, agreeing to a compromise deal under which Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats plan […]

Not Fine and Not Dandy

For 12 years, the U.S. Department of Energy has neglected to regularly impose fines on contractors running federal nuclear weapons plants and labs when the contractors fail to protect workers […]

Agra-vation

In an effort to keep India’s majestic Taj Mahal from turning black because of serious air pollution, the government is clamping down on industry and cars in the city of […]