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Cough Like an Egyptian

Dense, acrid smog choked Cairo for the second day in a row yesterday, causing respiratory problems, sore throats, acute headaches, and flu-like symptoms for many of the city’s 16 million […]

The Answer Is Blowin' in the Wind

The U.S. wind power industry got a boost last week from news that congressional negotiators agreed to extend a tax credit for electricity produced from wind and some other renewable […]

Old McDonald Had an Image Makeover

Sales of organic food in Britain rose 40 percent in the last year, driven by consumer concern about genetically modified food and mad cow disease, according to a report by […]

God Love 'Em

Ministers, rabbis, and other religious leaders in Oregon are kicking off a campaign to combat global warming, the first of 17 statewide efforts across the nation that aim to wed […]

Still One Wild and Crazy President

As one of his last major public land initiatives, Pres. Clinton is preparing to designate up to a dozen areas in the West as national monuments, with the aim of […]

Green Houses Are a Gas

Developers have built 3,500 “green” homes in Colorado during the past two years, more than $1 billion worth, making Colorado the top green building state. Colorado kicked off the nation’s […]

J. Crud

The U.S. catalog industry last year produced 17 billion catalogs, or 64 for each American, and used 3.35 million tons of paper, more than 12 percent of all the printing […]

Tibet-er Late Than Never

After years of clashes between poor Tibetans trying to make a living from the land and foreign environmentalists trying to save forests, conservation groups and agencies like the U.N. Development […]

They're Going Through a Phase — You Know, Hormones

Biotechnology advocates and opponents squared off yesterday in Chicago at the first of three public debates on genetically modified foods being hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The […]

Brooking No Damage to Blue Lagoon

A U.N. report made public yesterday warned of potential environmental harm from a salt plant that Mitsubishi and the Mexican government want to build on a lagoon in Baja California, […]