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Petro-fying News

Enviros and Amazon natives fear that oil drilling in Ecuador may soon escalate dramatically. Ecuador last month replaced the national currency with the U.S. dollar in an attempt to pull […]

Hot Dam

Fishing guides, Indian tribes, biologists, and environmentalists showed up in force at a public hearing yesterday in Portland, Ore., to tell federal authorities that they want four dams on the […]

Double, Double for Forest Trouble

The Clinton administration today will announce a proposal to nearly double federal spending for protection of the world’s tropical rainforests to $150 million. Much of the money would be used […]

Get Along, Little Doggies

The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that the black-tailed prairie dog should be listed as a threatened species, but stopped short of granting it protection under the Endangered Species Act. Such […]

They're Multiplying Like Bunnies, I Tell You

Nonprofit organizations working on environmental, social, and economic issues have been springing up around the world in record numbers in recent years, bringing social and political change on local, national, […]

Grist for the Windmill

An Anglo-Dutch consortium plans to build the world’s tallest pair of offshore wind turbines this summer, in the North Sea one kilometer off England’s northeast coast. The partners, which include […]

Johnny Muir, Meet Johnny Cash

A growing trend in the conservation movement has enviros across the U.S. offering financial incentives to farmers and ranchers to protect land or endangered animals. In Indiana, the Nature Conservancy […]

Be My Ballantine

Pres. Clinton will propose a $2.4 billion package of programs to combat global warming, including $200 million to promote the sales of energy-efficient U.S. technology abroad, White House officials said […]

Float Like a Butterfly … We Hope

Mexican officials are cracking down on illegal logging that threatens the winter habitat of hundreds of millions of migratory monarch butterflies, but they have yet to halt the tree-chopping completely. […]

Letter Rip

Leaders of green groups are pushing Pres. Clinton to put his money where his mouth is on trade and the environment. In a letter to the prez, the enviros praise […]