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Shrink Rap

Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground If you’re feeling a little low today, just consider the fate of Utah’s Great Salt Lake — which is feeling even lower, we guarantee. Following five years of drought, the famed lake is experiencing near-record lows and is dropping at a rate […]

The Bottle Let Me Down

Michigan Looks to Improve Its Recycling Record When it comes to recycling, Michigan lags behind much of the nation, and state lawmakers say it’s time to change that. Yesterday, a state Senate task force proposed spending $50 million to establish a recycling program and ban beverage containers from landfills. Funding for the project would come […]

Going Dutch

Dutch Car Crosses Finish Line First in Solar Stakes A Dutch-designed solar vehicle dubbed the Nuna II crossed a finish line in Australia yesterday to win the 2003 World Solar Challenge. The race, which covers 1,870 miles from Darwin in the north of Australia to Adelaide in the far south, is seen as a proving […]

Mouthing at the Foam

Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry Bobby Bush is no relation to the current president, and when it comes to environmental practices, you can tell. Bush is vice president of Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co., the largest maker of foam used in furniture. Now, he wants the company to become the first in […]

Enviros raise dollars, and dazzle, for the 2004 presidential elections

Last Wednesday, more than 500 well-heeled Beltway Democrats mingled over drinks and crab dip within the stately mahogany-paneled walls of the Old Ebbitt Grill, just yards from the White House, to celebrate the launch of Environment2004 — a media campaign aiming to shred President Bush’s environmental credibility (such as it is) just in time for […]

The Whole Shebang

Fix Whole Ecosystem, Not Bits and Pieces, Klamath Water Report Says Both environmentalists and farmers were vindicated by a report released yesterday by the National Research Council on the contested waters of Oregon’s Klamath Basin. The report, the final and most comprehensive one in an ongoing battle over the region’s water sources, recommended sweeping repairs […]

Coal-hearted

New Stats On Energy Use in China Alarm Environmentalists The most populous country on the planet may also pose the biggest threat to the global climate, according to recently released statistics about coal production and consumption in China. Until a few months ago, many energy experts hoped that the nation would have a relatively limited […]

Arctic Circle of Friends

Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry A new international project to clean up the Russian Arctic was unveiled in London today, and enviros say it’s about time. Although the entire Arctic suffers from contamination by poisonous heavy metals, radioactive leaks, and industrial chemicals, the Russian portion of the region is worse off […]

El Fin?

Fish Farms Threaten Wild Atlantic Salmon with Extinction Enviros have been right to worry about farmed salmon driving wild Atlantic salmon closer to extinction, according to new research by scientists in the British Isles. An estimated 2 million farmed salmon escape each year from fish farms in the North Atlantic, about half the total number […]

Pesticide use on airplanes could harm your health

Vacations are supposed to leave you feeling relaxed, happy, and healthy — but if you travel by air, you might feel worse by the time you get home than you did when you left. Fear of flying? For good reason. Flying should not generally be the transportation option of choice for the environmentally minded, given […]