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Can't Bear the Thought

Tension is rising in British Columbia as timber companies begin to log what many call the Great Bear Rain Forest along Canada’s western coast, a vast, largely undisturbed old-growth area […]

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Sooner

A chemical used in everything from baby bottles to tin can linings seems to have caused premature puberty and increased body weight in female mice, according to new research published […]

Don't or Die

Polluting scofflaws in the United Arab Emirates could get the death penalty under a new law issued by Pres. Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan. The law also allows for fines […]

Gene Cuisine

Responding to Europeans’ fears about genetically modified foods, the European Union yesterday gave preliminary approval to plans that would require labeling of foods with at least one ingredient that contains […]

Clinton's Ditch

Pres. Clinton signed a bill yesterday designating the nation’s 55th national park, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River in western Colorado, the first national park created in five years. […]

Y2 Chaos?

The CIA told Congress yesterday that there’s cause for concern about the Y2K bug compromising the safety of aging Soviet-era nuclear power plants in Russia and Ukraine. The risk of […]

Ho Chi Minh-imizing Pollution

Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, plagued by pollution but determined not to be consumed by it like Bangkok, is about to approve a five-year cleanup plan. Some 1,500 large […]

Oil's Not Well With Gore

Vice Pres. Al Gore today plans to announce that he will ban any new offshore oil and gas drilling along the California and Florida coasts if he is elected, a […]

Bark Lacks Bite

Planting vast numbers of trees may stall the process of climate change for a few years but will not help solve the problem, according to research conducted by scientists for […]

Hill's Angel

In a landmark decision, a federal judge ruled yesterday that controversial mountaintop-removal mining operations cannot bury streams under tons of waste rock and earth. Valley fills caused by such mining […]