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Bummin' Range

Much to the chagrin of enviros, Congress has given the military primary responsibility for managing more than 1.6 million acres of the Sonoran desert in southwestern Arizona, encompassing most of […]

No More Sing Sing for Ling Ling

China yesterday announced plans to release giant pandas born and raised in captivity into the wild in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species. Under a pilot […]

Greenhouse Costs a Bunch of Hot Air

Fighting global warming might cost the U.S. and other industrialized nations far less than most analysts have predicted, according to a new study in today’s issue of the journal Nature. […]

2007: A Truck Odyssey

The EPA yesterday proposed new rules designed to cut emissions of soot and smog-causing pollutants by up to 90 percent from heavy-duty commercial trucks and super-large sport utility vehicles. The […]

Tung Lashing

Hong Kong’s chief executive announced plans yesterday to spend almost $4 billion over the next decade to clean up the territory’s polluted environment and make the city “a green model […]

Bump in the Logging

A federal judge in Illinois has issued a nationwide ban on all timber sales that were approved during the past year without public input and environmental analysis. The decision, handed […]

Flashbacks From Bad Acid Trip

Environmental regulations in North America have succeeded in cutting acid rain, but many North American lakes and streams damaged by the phenomenon still have not recovered, according to new research […]

Kick Some Asthma

Smog in the eastern half of the U.S. sends some 53,000 people to the hospital and 159,000 to the emergency room each summer, and it triggers more than 6 million […]

Couch Potatoes Getting Baked

Three environmental groups today are launching an $11 million-dollar “public education” campaign in the U.S. about the health dangers and physical costs of climate change, with the aim of putting […]

Mess Transit

Many top enviro groups made a last-minute appeal to Pres. Clinton yesterday to veto a transportation spending bill with a provision that would prevent the federal government from even studying […]