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Conservationists Struggle to Preserve the World’s Big Cats Perhaps the most charismatic of charismatic megafauna, the world’s big cats — lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my! — are in big trouble. Just last year, conservationists discovered that Africa’s population of lions, once considered one of the safer big-cat families, has seen its numbers plunge; […]

Enough With the Snowmobiles Already

Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone — Again The saga of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park contains more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Only without the sex. Or violence. But plenty of lawsuits! And snowmobiles! The latest: The Bush administration unveiled a plan today that would allow up to 720 snowmobiles into […]

An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger’s top enviro official

Terry Tamminen. Terry Tamminen, secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California the world’s fifth-largest economy, it has long been an environmental trendsetter, pioneering standards in automobile regulation and alternative-energy development that have spread across the nation and around […]

Grand Old Protest

Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention Many enviros will be among the hundreds of thousands of protesters flooding into New York City at the end of the month to protest the Republican National Convention — or rather, to protest environmental rollbacks, corporate cronyism, tax cuts for the rich, indifference to poverty, abortion restrictions, […]

Developing Nations Do It Faster

Population to Grow Rapidly in Developing Countries The world population is expected to balloon from 6.3 billion to 9.3 billion by 2050, and nearly 99 percent of the growth will take place in developing countries, according to comprehensive new population projections released yesterday by the Population Reference Bureau. Industrialized countries like Japan and most countries […]

Clime Against Humanity

Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change Europe will suffer worse, and sooner, than other parts of the world from climate change, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. The report “pulls together a wealth of evidence that climate change is already happening and having widespread impacts, many of them with […]

Mort Utility Vehicles

SUV Occupants More Likely to Die in Accidents You surely already know that SUVs pollute the air, contribute to global warming, boost demand for oil, and shackle our security and economic fate to volatile, politically regressive Middle Eastern states. You might even know that SUVs raise the total number of traffic fatalities and squash drivers […]

Mo’ Emissions, Mo’ Problems

Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs Environmental Defense is pushing the U.S. EPA to increase the pollution reductions it is set to impose on power companies in December. If the agency required industry to invest a minimum of up to 50 percent more — for a total of $72 billion — 3,000 additional […]

Welcome to the Mo’ Hell California

New Study Predicts Hot, Dry Future for California According to a new study, global warming will leave California either really hosed or just moderately hosed, depending on the choices the world makes in coming years. Conducted by 19 prominent climate-change scientists, the study — published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences […]

A Plan Fiendishly Clever in Its Intricacies

Bush’s Small Tweaks to Regulations Carry Large Consequences In the third installment of its in-depth three-article series on Bush administration regulatory changes, The Washington Post today focuses on the way the administration circumvents public debate and legislation in favor of making small changes in regulatory wording that carry huge consequences — removing the word “hazardous” […]