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The Big Uneasy
In Louisiana, the sea-level rises caused by global warming aren’t the stuff of dry scientific reports; they’re already a local reality. Up to 35 square miles of the state’s wetlands get a little too wet every year — they disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. To date, Louisiana has lost an area the size of […]
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Outward Boundary
In a federal lawsuit over the legality of a new Navy sonar system said to harm marine animals, the Bush administration is challenging the scope of one of the most important pieces of U.S. environmental legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act. The act requires federal agencies to review the environmental implications of their projects, but […]
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Scrambled Eggs
If you were looking for good news about endocrine disputers, you’re out of luck. A global report by the World Health Organization has found extensive damage to wildlife from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and could not rule out possible risks for humans as well. EDCs — which lurk in pesticide residues on food, plastics, household products, […]
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Paul Sabin, Environmental Leadership Program
Paul Sabin is executive director of the Environmental Leadership Program and a lecturer in American history at Yale University. He is presently completing a book on California oil politics for the University of California Press. Monday, 12 Aug 2002 NEW HAVEN, Conn. I am off to Seattle today for a five-day retreat, and I’m tingling […]
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How Now, Brown Cloud
A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the “Asian Brown Cloud,” the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, […]
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Catch As Quechua Can
Until recently, there were only two roads out of poverty for Ecuador’s Quechua people: cutting down the rainforest (thereby destroying habitat and soil fertility alike) or trading with warring factions in neighboring Colombia (thereby opening the door for that country’s violence to spread into Ecuador). Now there is a third, far better option: the Callari […]
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Signs, Seals Not Delivered
Thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez spill sent 11 million gallons of crude oil pouring into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, some species still show no sign of recovery, according to the government panel overseeing the area’s restoration. The long-suffering species include herring, ducks, harbor seals, and loons; others, such as some seabird and salmon species, […]
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Rock Me Like a Hurricane
The healing of the Florida Everglades is the largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history — and its got some of the nation’s highest hopes pinned on it. Some of those hopes involve the Florida Bay, a once-pristine angler’s paradise that all but collapsed in the late 1980s, when its clear waters became clouded and […]
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Choosy Administrations Choose GEF
The U.S. and 31 other countries pledged this week to allocate a total of $2.92 billion over four years to support the Global Environmental Facility, an international fund to promote clean and efficient energy, biodiversity protection, and water-restoration efforts in developing nations. The Bush administration contributed $500 million of that total, but is currently about […]
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The Bush administration braces for eco-chaos
A series of internal White House memos obtained by Grist sheds light on the Bush administration’s private response to increasing reports of looming environmental crises. Contrary to popular opinion, it appears President Bush is far from oblivious to the spate of dire ecological warnings that have emerged in recent months. In fact, his family’s personal […]
