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Happily Everglades After?
The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed landmark legislation on Friday that would provide $1.4 billion to begin a 30-year effort to restore the Florida Everglades, one of the largest environmental restoration projects in history. The measure, part of a larger water resources bill, was approved by the Senate on Tuesday and is expected to be signed […]
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Rats!
A naturally derived pesticide used by many organic farmers and home gardeners can produce the classic symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in rats, scientists said this weekend at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience. The scientists said the finding was the best evidence so far linking chemicals in the environment to Parkinson’s. Deborah A. […]
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Guess What's in Store
The ongoing recall of genetically modified StarLink corn, which is not approved for human consumption, could cost businesses all along the food chain hundreds of millions of dollars as they try to track down and dispose of nearly 300 food products that may contain the corn, as well as contaminated grain shipments. The recall is […]
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They Blindsided Me With Science
Three of the U.S. government’s top salmon scientists contend today in an article in the journal Science that breaching four dams on the lower Snake River in southeastern Washington might not be the best way to ensure the survival of salmon runs. The article by scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service supports the Clinton […]
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In Hot Water
Radioactivity in waterways near a top-secret nuclear weapons complex in Siberia is higher than what would be released from 10,000 commercial nuclear reactors, making it the worst nuclear river contamination ever uncovered, U.S. and Russian watchdog groups announced this week. Between 1955 and 1967, the Soviet Union commissioned five nuclear reactors at the Siberian Chemical […]
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Rain of Terror
As pouring rains brought the most widespread flooding Britain has seen in 50 years, Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested yesterday that global warming is contributing to the disastrous weather. “In the longer term, we have to try and work to deal with these problems on not just a national level, but on an international level. […]
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We Blinded Them With Scientists
More than 250 scientists, including Edward O. Wilson and Paul Ehrlich, sent a letter to President Clinton this week urging him to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Many enviros have been calling on Clinton to declare the area a national monument before he leaves office, but Clinton has announced […]
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Fox Guarding the Penhouse
To the disappointment of environmental and human rights activists, a Mexican judge on Tuesday rejected evidence that two environmentalists had been tortured into confessing to drug and weapons charges. Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, who have been sentenced to seven and 10 years in prison respectively, led peasant farmers in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero […]
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Chile Con Carnage
The tourism and salmon-fishing industries are joining with enviros to try to stop the U.S. multinational Boise Cascade from building what would be the world’s largest timber mill in the middle of the Puerto Montt region of southern Chile, which includes the country’s lake district and northern Patagonia. Critics say the $180 million port-and-mill project, […]
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Pulling the Plug
After getting a complaint from the national League of Conservation Voters, Rick Lazio, the Republican candidate for Senate in New York, pulled a campaign ad yesterday that criticized his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for supporting the Kyoto climate change treaty. The ad described Kyoto as “a radical environmental treaty that would wipe out thousands […]
