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Not-So-Safe Harbor
Australia’s Sydney Harbor was hit this week by an 80,000-liter (21,000-gallon) oil spill, creating a seven-mile-long slick that lapped at the side of the famous Sydney Opera House and pungent […]
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South Park Village: Bigger, Longer, and (Mostly) Unopposed
Developers and a number of enviro groups are backing a compromise plan to build a large tourist and resident area outside Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The proposal, which […]
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A New Monty Python Parrot-y
Monty Python comedian John Cleese, featured in the famous “dead parrot” comedy sketch, has joined an effort to push for stronger parrot protections. A new study by the World Wildlife […]
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Does This Mean Kids Are Pests?
Men who are exposed to pesticides on the job may have increased difficulty fathering children, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal. Researchers studied 650 couples, […]
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Chinese Water Torture
Only 23 percent of recent tap water samples from China’s main cities met national health standards, according to figures from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The percentage would be […]
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Brazilian Army in the Line of Fire
Brazil this week launched a campaign to tackle illegal logging and fires in the Amazon rainforest. The Environment Agency (Ibama) and the army will cooperate to survey by helicopter the […]
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Population Bomb-ay
Within days, India will become the second nation with a population that exceeds 1 billion, according to U.N. demographers. India, with an annual population growth rate of 1.6 percent, adds […]
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Insects Chewing into Monsanto's Profits?
Some insects may be able to develop resistance to genetically modified cotton plants more quickly than expected, rendering the plants obsolete sooner than developer Monsanto anticipated, according to research published […]
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Saving Salmon from Dam-nation
A bipartisan group of 107 House members has sent a letter to Pres. Clinton urging him to consider the removal of four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington […]
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Nukes Still Driving Us Buggy
Thirty U.S. nuclear power plants still need to upgrade their computers to be immune from the Y2K computer bug, and six of the plants are not scheduled to finish their […]
