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Star Warnings

The Brits are spearheading the biggest investigation into the Earth’s climate, a $640 million Living Planet program under the European Space Agency that will use satellites to study weather systems. […]

Afghan Forests No Longer Blanket the Country

Increasing deforestation in war-ravaged Afghanistan is a major concern, the U.N. warned last week. The environmental degradation facing the nation is among the most severe in the world, according to […]

Fusing over Fusion

After years of discouraging setbacks, specialists in hydrogen fusion research are banding together to revive the effort to harness energy from thermonuclear fusion. Believers say fusion energy could become a […]

Oil's Well in California

A battle is brewing over oil drilling off the coast of California, and the controversy is likely to become an issue in the 2000 presidential race. Federal officials are expected […]

Supreme Court A-Noise Enviros

The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case from environmental groups that want the feds to act more quickly to reduce noise in the Grand Canyon from sightseeing planes. […]

Royal Flushed over Frankenfoods

Britain’s Prince Charles has bucked the royal tradition of political neutrality by loudly voicing his opposition to genetically modified crops, pitting him against Prime Minister Tony Blair. Charles, a committed […]

DDT-Free Willy

Some killer whales in the Gulf of Alaska have dangerously high concentrations of DDT and PCBs in their blubber, according to a new scientific study. Scientists worry that several pods […]

Bonn Fire

The Kyoto climate change treaty is running into real trouble over a European Union proposal to cap emissions trading. A new study of the European proposal by the Paris-based International […]

Cold Comfort

A two-mile long ice core drilled out of an Antarctic ice sheet shows that levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane are higher now than at any time […]

Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition

Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Sunday, 6 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. I am home from several days in Portland, Ore., attempting to […]