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Wonder Twin Powers: Deregulate

As electric utility deregulation gets rolling in California and Pennsylvania, enviros are anxiously watching to see whether consumers, who now have a choice about their power providers, will opt to […]

Soil and Trouble

Nations in Sub-Saharan Africa may be unable to feed 60 percent of a projected population of 1 billion by 2025 unless dramatic steps are taken to improve the fertility and […]

Climate Out of Control

Large reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions could have a modest effect in slowing climate change, delaying some of the effects by 50 to 100 years, according to a report by scientists […]

Bawl Bering

Starvation seems the most likely cause of death for nearly 1,000 gray whales that died last summer along the west coast of North America. A Canadian researcher believes the whales […]

Not So Fast, Flux!

Supervisors at a Hanford nuclear fuel factory near Richland, Wash., sometimes told workers in the past to ignore safety rules intended to prevent accidental nuclear reactions, according to a Department […]

Timber Tantrum

In a rare offensive move, the Plum Creek Timber Co. filed suit Thursday against five environmental groups and the U.S. Forest Service, seeking court backing for a controversial land swap […]

Soar Losers

More than 1,000 bird species are in danger of going extinct over the next century, according to a new report released by BirdLife International. Birds are threatened by deforestation, logging, […]

Do Mess with Texas

With Houston’s rise to the status of most smoggy U.S. city, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, top contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is beginning to face criticism for his […]

WTO Pours It On

The World Trade Organization responded to its environmental critics yesterday by releasing a report blaming poverty, not trade, for environmental degradation. The report didn’t address enviros’ criticisms that WTO rules […]

Smoked Salmon

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will seek to have wild Atlantic salmon protected as endangered, after the release last week of a government report that found that the fish is near […]