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Wilted Greens

The Mexican Green Environmental Party (PVEM) has become the nation’s fourth largest political party and recently increased its clout by forming an alliance with Mexico’s biggest opposition party, the pro-business […]

But It Gives Strip-Mall Developers a Nice Head Start

Africa lost more than 9 million acres of forest each year between 1990 and 1995, primarily because of logging, overgrazing, conversion of land for agriculture, and civil unrest, according to […]

Get Wind of This

Wind power is beginning to gain ground in Japan, and the public is paying more attention to clean energy in the wake of a series of nuclear accidents that have […]

Or We Could Just Put Them All Up at the Hilton

More than a third of the planet’s plant and animal species exist on a mere 1.4 percent of its land surface, according to a new study published in today’s issue […]

Cat on a Hot Radioactive Roof

An ingredient in kitty litter may be just the thing to help clean up a radioactive mess left in West Valley, N.Y., by an old recycling plant for spent nuclear […]

GM to Heavily Promote New Off-Road SUV in Oregon

Dozens of enviro groups, businesses, and churches are banding together in Oregon to push for more federally protected wilderness in the state. The new “Oregon Wild” campaign, spearheaded by the […]

Make It $10 Billion and We'll Turn Niagara Falls Into a Water-Slide Park

The military commanders of the Army Corps of Engineers are waging a behind-the-scenes campaign to boost the agency’s $4 billion civil works budget by more than 50 percent, even as […]

A Disappearing Act

  137 species are estimated to go extinct each day 50,000 species are estimated to go extinct each year 78 species were on the original U.S. endangered species list 1,201 […]

We Got the Fever

A new analysis by government scientists indicates that the planet’s climate is warming at an unprecedented rate, suggesting that the future impact of global warming may be more sudden and […]

Mileage, Shmileage — What About the Cup Holders?

DaimlerChrysler has unveiled a new 72-mpg diesel-electric hybrid sedan with a lightweight plastic body, but it has no plans to sell the car. The concept vehicle, the Dodge ESX3, would […]