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That's Some Killer Pot

Nearly 11 percent of children in Tijuana, Mexico, have high lead levels in their blood, according to a three-year study by researchers from the University of California at Irvine. Most […]

Hungary for Some Boar

Croatia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are embarking on an ambitious project to create a cross-border nature preserve of at least 250,000 acres at the confluence of the Danube and Drava rivers, […]

Who Ya Gonna Call? Trust Busters!

Monsanto was hit with a class-action lawsuit yesterday, brought by a coalition of small farmers and farm groups that accuse the company of rushing genetically modified seeds to the marketplace […]

Killmore Trout?

The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to give state and local governments the lead role in protecting threatened salmon and steelhead trout in the Northwest and Northern California, a major […]

Meow!

In what researchers are saying could be a big advance for endangered species, a house cat gave birth three weeks ago to a rare African wildcat. Scientists at the Audubon […]

Arrested Development

Most executives say they want their companies to pursue sustainable development — that ubiquitous buzzword that can be loosely defined as incorporating environmental performance and social responsibility into business strategy […]

Forest Grump

The U.S. Forest Service has been hearing cheers and jeers during its public sessions across the country this fall on the Clinton administration’s proposal to protect some 50 million acres […]

Put an End to Our Sulfuring

Within a few weeks, the U.S. EPA will likely announce its plan to cut back the level of sulfur allowed in gasoline and to put all vehicles, from small cars […]

Slammy Davis

Demonstrators yesterday said they held the largest rally ever in the U.S. against genetically modified (GM) foods, as they protested in Oakland outside the last of three Food and Drug […]

Zoning Out

The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which is rendered uninhabitable by marine life because of pollutants from the Mississippi River, was larger than ever this year, according to […]