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This Little Carbon Went to Market

The Sydney Futures Exchange is setting up a market in Australia in carbon sequestration credits, or units of carbon dioxide that have been absorbed by trees. Industries will be able […]

A River Runs Sioux It

The EPA yesterday settled a lawsuit and agreed to study why children have taken ill after playing in a river that runs through a South Dakota Indian reservation. The Oglala […]

Demand Hops for Wind Power

The New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colo., will buy all the power produced by a new wind turbine in Wyoming, prompting one official to propose that the turbine be […]

Wild, Wild West Bank

A number of Israeli industries are dumping toxic waste in the West Bank, Palestinian officials charge, violating environmental agreements made in 1993 as part of the Oslo peace accords. Friends […]

I Want My DDT

As the U.N. drafts a treaty that could ban DDT worldwide, many health officials are protesting that such a ban would devastate efforts to control malaria in some developing nations. […]

Cod Dammit!

Even as tough fishing restrictions in New England’s Georges Bank fishing ground are beginning to restore populations of cod and other groundfish, a new report by federal and state biologists […]

Tongue Depressing News

The destruction of forests and other ecosystems is leading to a loss of languages, as indigenous peoples are driven from their homes and forced to migrate to urban areas and […]

Less Fun in More Sun

Heat waves, rising sea levels, drought, disease, and other problems brought on by global warming could keep tourists away from many of the world’s most popular vacation spots in coming […]

EPA: Extremely Plodding Agency

The EPA is lagging far behind schedule in setting new pesticide restrictions based on risks to children, as called for in a 1996 law. By August 3 of this year, […]

An Ill Wind

After years of tough talk, some Northeastern states last week signaled a willingness to retreat from demands that Midwestern and Southern states reduce their air pollution, which blows into the […]