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Habitat's Where Ujjal Dosanjh's At

British Columbia tomorrow will announce a new provincial park, helping to complete the largest contiguous body of protected land on the Canada-U.S. border. One of 49 new protected areas that will be introduced by B.C. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh, Snowy Provincial Park will encompass 65,000 acres just north of the Pasayten Wilderness Area and Loomis State […]

Habitat's Where Babbitt's At

President Clinton created seven new national monuments this morning, protecting about 1 million more acres of federal land. The new monuments, all recommended by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, include 377,000 acres along the Upper Missouri Breaks in Montana; 204,000 acres of grassland in Central California; and 486,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert; as well as […]

Time to Get the Lead Out

Governments and the press have paid a lot of attention this year to the question of whether depleted uranium weapons used by NATO in the Balkans may be causing illnesses — but the region is facing other environmental problems whose deadly consequences are more clear, even if less publicized. The situation is especially dire in […]

Drill Team

President-elect Bush says he plans to review and possibly roll back President Clinton’s regulation to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forest land. Bush, in a New York Times interview, said, “What I would seek to do is to make sure that our bureaucracies were not trampling the interest of the […]

L.A. Likers

For the second year in a row, no first-stage ozone pollution alerts were reported in the greater Los Angles area last year. Many of the 16 million people who live in the four-county area are now breathing air that meets all of the U.S. EPA health standards. Unhealthful days have dropped 75 percent over the […]

Of Course It's Tireless. It's a Sub.

Greenpeace activists from Spain, Germany, Austria, and Italy boarded a nuclear-powered submarine from Britain today to protest its presence in Gibraltar, a British colony on Spain’s southern tip. The activists evaded Spanish police and British troops to reach the submarine, the Tireless, which has been docked in Gibraltar for nine months for repairs after a […]

Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision

Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Tuesday, 16 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador Here I am, an environmental manager who has worked with private Latin American companies for over 13 years, sitting on the other side of the table. Since November, I have been actively […]

To Know a Whale

Swan Song

An Argentine court ordered the government this week to prevent a British ship, the Pacific Swan, from carrying spent nuclear fuel into the country’s “jurisdictional” waters. The country’s Foreign Ministry said those waters extend about 12 nautical miles from the shore. But Greenpeace, which calls the ship’s cargo the “the equivalent of a floating Chernobyl,” […]

People for Chapter 11

People for the USA!, the national nonprofit wise-use group, is closing shop later this month, due to a lack of funding and a decline in membership. The group began with a different name in 1988 as a mouthpiece for “rural Americans” who were up in arms over enviros’ efforts to stop old-growth logging in the […]