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The Naked Truth

Nude protestors crashed the opening session of an international water conference underway today at the Hague, Netherlands. The inaugural speaker, Egyptian water resources minister Mahmoud Abu Zeid, looked on in […]

Green and Bear It

Six major timber companies in British Columbia are working toward an agreement with enviro groups under which the companies would stay out of certain pristine tracts in the Great Bear […]

Well, It's New Jersey — What Did You Expect?

Despite Gov. Christine Todd Whitman’s (R) campaign to make New Jersey a national model for controlling growth and protecting open space, sprawl is still spreading out of control in the […]

Bite Me

Despite mounting controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods, many U.S. farmers plan to plant GM crops again this year because they are easier and cheaper to grow and there’s still […]

Let's Hope It's Not Oil-Slick Willy

President Clinton said yesterday that he will announce steps soon to deal with the rising costs of gasoline and oil. Enviros hope he’ll refuse to consider the environmentally damaging options […]

Make Mine Manure-Covered

Re: Food for Thought Dear Editor: As a fan of organic produce and a local newspaper editor, I appreciated Donella Meadows’s article. She does a great job of rounding up […]

Better Homes and Gardens

Mary Cordaro has made a career out of what she learned trying to cope with her chemical sensitivities and allergies, starting a green design business that helps people make healthy […]

Put Him in the Stocks

Vice President Al Gore said this week that he will not divest himself of stock in Occidental Petroleum, despite the company’s controversial plans to drill for oil in the Colombian […]

Nativity Seen

The U.S. is home to more than 200,000 native species of plants, animals, and other wild things, at least twice as many as previously thought, according to a new Nature […]

Congrats, Big Three — You Didn't Come in Absolutely Last!

Vehicles produced by U.S. automakers rank as nearly the worst polluters on the road, behind only Isuzu models in a new study of 11 automakers by the Union of Concerned […]