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This scientist is making quite a buzz
The San Rafael Desert — 500 square miles of rolling gravel broken by an occasional butte or sandstone formation — certainly isn’t the prettiest place in eastern Utah. Dotted with […]
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Le Car-less
Tens of thousands of citizens in Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Rome, and some 150 other European cities left their automobiles at home yesterday to observe a car-free day, the second annual […]
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Coming Soon: A 10K Salmon Run
A major electric utility in the Northwest, PacifiCorp, said yesterday that it would pay $17 million to remove a dam rather than cough up the $30 million that would have […]
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Tiger Salamander Lawsuits: They're Grrreat!
In a lawsuit filed this week against the feds, the Center for Biological Diversity is pressing to have the California tiger salamander and nine other critters in the West protected […]
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Peter Pence Gets Pounded
The poor in Britain are hit much harder by pollution than the rich, according to a new report produced by Friends of the Earth and the think tank Catalyst. In […]
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Californians to Stop Passing Gas?
The California Air Resources Board today will consider a first-of-its-kind crackdown on something usually not thought of as an environmental threat: small, portable gas cans. The cans are so leak-prone […]
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New Kink for Perverse Subsidies
If the world’s governments took just a portion of the money they use for environmentally damaging subsidies and used it for conservation efforts, the world’s rich diversity of species could […]
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Oil and U'wa Don't Mix
In a move that a Colombian Indian tribe says could mean the end of its culture and people, Colombia’s government yesterday granted Occidental Petroleum a license to explore for oil […]
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Fund for the Whole Family
Worldwide funding for family planning and women’s health has fallen billions of dollars below targeted levels even as the world’s population climbs toward 6 billion, the U.N. said yesterday. The […]
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Not a Creature Was Stirring, Not Even a Grouse
Large swaths of sage and grassland desert in the West are the focal point of a contentious debate over protections for the sage grouse, a large bird that some enviros […]
