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Water and Mohels Don't Mix?

Concern over water supplies in the Middle East is likely to complicate new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s efforts to make peace in the region. Water resources there are stretched […]

Serbing Up Poisons

The U.N. is sending a team of experts to Serbia next week to take measure of the environmental damage caused by NATO’s bombing campaign and the Serbian aggression in Kosovo. […]

Ahead of the Curve

The Union of Concerned Scientists yesterday unveiled its own redesign of the Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle that would get 50 percent better mileage, cut pollution by 75 percent, and […]

Milwaukee Bucks Highway Trend

Although officials in Salt Lake City and Milwaukee both claim to be concerned about sprawl, Utah is using federal funds for a huge highway expansion around its capital city while […]

Old MacMillan Had a Plan

U.S. logging giant Weyerhaeuser yesterday said that if it is successful with its takeover bid for Canadian company MacMillan Bloedel, it will adhere to MacBlo’s promises to use more environmentally […]

Recipe for Controversy

The Clinton administration yesterday finally announced that it would conduct long-term studies of genetically engineered foods, and said that it is considering asking the food industry to voluntarily label genetically […]

Kakadu-dle-don't

Much to the dismay of environmentalists, the U.N. World Heritage Committee yesterday declined to put a prominent Australian wilderness area on its “in danger” list. Enviros had pushed for the […]

Old Disgraceful

Yellowstone National Park’s aging sewage system is overwhelmed and dilapidated, a condition that on July 2 led to several thousand gallons of raw sewage spilling into a meadow in the […]

Rising Tempura-tures

A Japanese nuclear reactor on the coast of the Sea of Japan was shut down yesterday because the facility leaked an estimated 20 tons of radioactive cooling water, one of […]

Allen Wrench in Pollution Monitoring

The administration of former Virginia Gov. George Allen (R) concealed information about river pollution and refused to release data on water contaminants to the U.S. EPA, according to a report […]