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No Nukes Would Be Good News

Japan’s worst nuclear accident — a September 1999 incident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura — exposed 439 people to radiation, up from a previous estimate of 69, government […]

A Forests-Gone Conclusion

Indigenous peoples from Alaska and the Peruvian Amazon joined enviros Monday in calling on the U.N. to act quickly to stop a global crisis of deforestation. This week in New […]

Dissed Oriente

A Manhattan federal judge says he is leaning toward ruling that an environmental lawsuit filed against Texaco by Ecuadorian Indians should be tried in Ecuador, as Texaco prefers, rather than […]

Frito Be GM-Free

Frito-Lay, the big American junk food purveyor, is telling its suppliers not to use genetically modified corn, a change of course that is angering some farmers and pleasing enviros. The […]

Raid On!

Environmental cops arrested seven dealers and rescued hundreds of animals in a weekend raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part of a campaign underway to halt the massive illegal trade […]

Grace Under Pressure

A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday on behalf of residents of Libby, Mont., against W.R. Grace & Co., former owner of an asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mine that operated for more than […]

Tune In, Plug In, Drop Out

While consumerism runs rampant and companies produce a constant stream of new widgets to tempt potential buyers, a small but growing number of American high-tech workers are adopting “voluntary simplicity” […]

Suzanne Cheavens, Mountainfreak magazine

Suzanne Cheavens is the senior editor of Mountainfreak magazine, based in Telluride, Colo. Monday, 31 Jan 2000 TELLURIDE, Colo. Welcome to the happy chaos of my life as editor of […]

Duh.

The U.S. government is finally conceding that workers who helped make nuclear weapons at 14 plants have higher-than-normal rates of a wide range of cancers, most of them fatal. The […]

Tickle Me, Elko

Hundreds of disgruntled Nevadans paraded through Elko, Nev., with 10,000 shovels on Saturday to protest a federal environmental policy that is keeping the U.S. Forest Service from rebuilding a washed-out […]