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How Delightful, How Insightful

Honda’s hybrid Insight hit California showrooms yesterday, becoming the first gasoline-electric hybrid car to go on sale in the U.S. The two-seater, which has a base price of $19,000, gets […]

Enviros Ruffle Ridge

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R) yesterday signed into law a $646 million program to help protect many thousands of acres of open space, preserve 1,500 farms, and improve state parks. […]

Drop the Chalupa, er, the Agua

Mexican and U.S. enviros are teaming up to pressure the U.S. government into allocating more water from the Colorado River to protect endangered species, a move that could spur new […]

Life Is Beautiful. Nukes Are Ugly.

Italy plans to spend nearly $3 billion over the next 20 years to dismantle and clean up its four nuclear power plants and create a repository for nuclear waste, the […]

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 […]