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Lone Sharks
Sharks are in trouble, with their populations in serious decline around the world in large part because of overfishing, according to marine scientists gathered at a conference in California. More than 100 million sharks are caught each year by crews from 125 nations, and only four of those — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the […]
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Air Bradley Vs. Hot-Air Gore?
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley attacked Al Gore yesterday on Gore’s signature issue, the environment, accusing him of being all talk and no action. Bradley, speaking in San Francisco, ticked off a list of environmental promises that Gore had made before the 1992 election that the administration had failed to follow through on. He also […]
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What Would Latke Do?
American Taxi in Santa Ana, Calif., has become the first taxi company in the nation to power its fleet exclusively with clean-burning natural gas, a move made in anticipation of proposed smog-fighting rules in the region. In April, the South Coast Air Quality Management District will vote on a proposed regulation for Southern California that […]
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Air Plan Crash
The administration of Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) is going to have to get tougher on air pollution if it wants a new plan to pass muster with the feds, according to an early review from the EPA. The agency hasn’t yet rejected Texas’s plan, which seeks to cut pollution from vehicles and industries […]
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The ins and outs of matchmaking for cranes
Put that chocolate down, hold the wine and roses, and take yourself back to the dark side of Valentine’s Day. You remember, that day your sophomore year in high school that began with the discovery of a new 18-megawatt zit and ended in tragedy when [insert teen proto-love interest here] said they wouldn’t go out […]
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Can't See the Forest for the Treaties
Despite fiery opposition from Canada, U.N. negotiators on Saturday created a new international body, the U.N. Forum on Forests, to implement existing international agreements and conventions on forest protection. Canada argues that existing conventions are not working and wants the U.N. to begin negotiations on a new, comprehensive treaty on forest protection. Enviros oppose launching […]
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Impure As the Driven Snow
Snowmobiling is coming under increasing fire in the western U.S., not just from enviros but also from officials at a number of national forests and parks. Snowmobiles have been banned in recent years from some U.S. Forest Service land in Montana and northern Idaho, and they may soon be limited in Yellowstone National Park, the […]
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Occidental Deaths?
Riot police clashed with members of Colombia’s indigenous U’wa tribe Friday, as the U’wa protested plans by Occidental Petroleum to drill for oil on traditional U’wa lands in northeastern Colombia. As many as five children may have fallen into a fast-flowing river and drowned in the aftermath of the clash, according to unconfirmed reports. About […]
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Flipper Flop
Three Asian species of dolphins may go extinct by 2020 if governments fail to cut pollution and destruction of the species’ habitats, according to scientists at the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation in Hong Kong. The first dolphin species to go will likely be China’s baiji dolphin; there are only about 30 left in the Yangtze […]
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Mississippi Crud
The Army Corps of Engineers discarded the work of economists who found that the costs of an extensive lock and dam project on the Upper Mississippi River would far outweigh the benefits, a senior Corps economist is charging in a legal affidavit. Donald Sweeney led an economics team in producing a study of the project, […]
