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Down the Hatch

Pres. Clinton nominated Ted Stewart, a conservative Utah Republican strongly disliked by enviros, to a federal judgeship yesterday, caving in to the wishes of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin Hatch […]

Dental Damn!

Baby teeth from children who live in the radiation paths of nuclear power plants in Connecticut and New Jersey contain alarmingly high levels of radioactive matter, scientists reported this week […]

Gorillas in the Midst (of War)

The five-year-old war in Congo is taking a heavy toll on the nation’s wildlife. Officials in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park talk of “animal genocide” and estimate that about 100 of […]

They'll Finnish the Report Annan

The head of a U.N. team investigating environmental damage in Yugoslavia said yesterday that the team has found no evidence that NATO bombing caused major ecological catastrophes. But Pekka Haavisto, […]

Riders Knocked Out of Their Saddles

Senate Democrats knocked four anti-environmental provisions out of an Interior Department spending bill yesterday, including riders that would have blocked new energy-efficiency rules for federal agencies and permitted lead mining […]

Carbon Sinking

Worldwide emissions of carbon from the burning of fossil fuels fell by 0.5 percent last year, the first drop since 1993, according to new estimates from the Worldwatch Institute. This […]

Boyz 'n the Oxygen Hood

Children in poor, predominantly minority neighborhoods in New York City are as much as 21 times more likely than children from affluent parts of the city to be hospitalized for […]

Frown and Bear It

Wild bear populations around the world are seriously threatened by poaching, pollution, and disappearing forests, according to a World Wildlife Fund report released yesterday. In Russia, home of the world’s […]

Seedy ROM

In a project likely to revolutionize the study of biology and have important impacts on international environmental policy, a group of nations this month began setting up a database where […]

I Don't Want My MTBE

An expert panel convened by the EPA plans today to recommend a substantial reduction in the use of MTBE, an additive that makes gasoline burn more cleanly, because MTBE poses […]