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Removing Heavy Metal from the Radio

The European Union is weighing a proposal that would require electronics makers to take responsibility for their products once their useful lives are over, with the intent of encouraging companies […]

Virginia Slim on Pollution Controls

Environmentalists have won a court order forcing the federal government to act more aggressively to protect Virginia waterways from pollution. A federal judge ruled that Virginia officials have been lax […]

Don't Chew on This

Lead exposure in children may lead to tooth decay, perhaps accounting for as much as 11 percent of cavities in kids, according to a new study published in today’s issue […]

What Do Butterflies, Ski Passes, and Eggs Have in Common?

The British government plans to start monitoring numbers of butterflies and the sales of Scotland ski passes, among other indicators, as part of an effort to track climate change. Each […]

Summers Hot

In a rare public dispute, Treasury Secretary-designate Lawrence Summers yesterday said the U.S. would vote against a controversial World Bank loan to China that environmentalists have criticized. The $40 million […]

Giving Public Lands the Shaft

The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday gave initial approval to a bill that would protect Western mining interests from tougher environmental rules proposed by the Interior Department. A 1997 Interior Department […]

Koop Has the Vinyl Word

Millions of dollars worth of vinyl toys pulled from store shelves at the behest of Greenpeace and other groups pose no medical threats, according to a panel of leading physicians […]

Panda-monium

In a bid to save the endangered giant panda, Chinese scientists have successfully cloned an embryo and will try to implant it in a host animal’s uterus. The researchers had […]

Ouch, That Mega-Hurts

As more Americans move to get rid of old personal computers, the nation may face a significant environmental problem. PCs contain traces of toxic chemicals such as mercury, and one […]

Russians Play Roulette with Pollution

Many Russian towns, heavily polluted by decades of emissions from filthy factories, are facing a devil’s choice between keeping factories running and thus endangering residents’ health or shutting them down […]