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Oldman River Doesn't Just Keep Rolling Along

NAFTA’s environmental watchdog, the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation, has recommended that Canada be investigated to see whether the nation is adequately enforcing its environmental laws and protecting fish habitat. […]

What's Next, a Swarm of Locusts?

Survivors of Turkey’s massive earthquake last week now face the prospect of acid rain caused by pollution from a large oil refinery fire, according to Turkey’s health minister. A five-day […]

Green and Pleasant Land?

The U.K. lags far behind many nations in the proportion of its land set aside for wildlife protection, according to a new report by Friends of the Earth U.K. Using […]

Raul Alvarez, PODER and Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Raul Alvarez is transportation coordinator for People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER), an environmental justice group based in East Austin, Texas. He is also environmental justice […]

No Frankenbeer in My Stein

Demand in Britain for organic products, including organic beer, is on the rise, spurred in part by consumer fears over the safety of genetically modified foods. Sales of organic foods […]

Doing a Double Take

The timber wars are flaring up again after an announcement on Friday that the U.S. Forest Service plans to roughly double logging on some 2.5 million acres of national forest […]

Oooo, Ahhh, Good News for Tribe

The U’wa Indian tribe in Colombia, which had threatened to commit mass suicide if oil exploration was conducted on its ancestral lands, has been granted a large new reservation in […]

Fringe Benefits

The federal government will pay a fringe religious group $13 million for 9,300 acres of land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. The area will provide additional grazing grounds for herds of […]

Refined Tastes

Construction is slated to begin next year on a “bio-refinery” in California that will convert thousands of tons of orchard prunings, rice straw, and other agricultural wastes into ethanol, which […]

Mediterranean Sea-ing Stars

The Mediterranean Sea is facing an ecological disaster if the nations along its shores don’t curb their polluting ways, according to a Greenpeace report released last Thursday. Greenpeace is pushing […]