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Hard of Huron

Michigan natural resources officials voted on Friday to lift a four-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling beneath Lakes Huron and Michigan. Supporters said the lake-bottom deposits would boost energy supplies in the U.S. while bringing the state royalty money that could be used to purchase public land. Critics said the risks of the drilling […]

Goat for the Gold

Pampas and Circumstances

More than 1,500 farmers now plant 7 million acres of organic crops a year in Argentina, up from 220 farmers and 13,000 acres in 1995. For the most part, people in Argentina haven’t developed a taste for the stuff — 90 percent of the country’s organic crops are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Europe. […]

Trevor Hare, Sky Island Alliance

Trevor Hare is the field coordinator for Sky Island Alliance, a group dedicated to protecting biodiversity in the sky island mountain ranges of the southwestern United States. Monday, 17 Sep 2001 TUSCON, Ariz. It’s hard going back into the office after spending a gorgeous Sunday wildlife tracking in the southeastern Arizona desert grasslands of the […]

Toast of the Town

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) flew right over the cuckoo’s nest and straight into nutville with his widely mocked decision to add “eco-terrorists” to the list of possible suspects responsible for the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Don Young getting restless. For the unlucky few who missed the Alaska congressman’s appalling […]

Foes of Globalization in Europe Vow to Press Ahead

Anti-globalization activists in Europe say they will press forward with their protests. Some of them argue that the tragedy on Tuesday came about as a direct result of U.S. foreign policy and that capitalism is to blame for the lack of security in the world. Anti-globalization types in the U.S., however, voiced concerns that authorities […]

EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk

The smoke and grit in the air in New York City that came from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers pose only a small health risk, U.S. EPA officials and some doctors said yesterday. They equated the danger to a smoggy day in the city, when people with already-weakened immune systems should be […]

Court Ruling Puts All Salmon Protections at Risk

In a decision that could undermine protections for salmon throughout the West, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan on Wednesday ordered that Oregon coastal coho salmon no longer be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Hogan said federal biologists were wrong to count only wild fish and not the more numerous hatchery-born coho when […]

Chemicals May Be Contributing to Early Puberty

Boys in the U.S. are entering puberty at an earlier age, and exposure to chemicals in the environment may be one of the reasons why, according to a study published in September’s Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The study analyzed federal data from 1988 to 1994 and found that the average age for developing […]

WWF Asks Russia to Protect Whales Threatened By Exxon

The World Wildlife Fund is asking Russia to stop Exxon from testing for oil off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, charging that the seismic surveys are driving Western Pacific gray whales from their feeding grounds. “The sooner the seismic work is finished, the more time whales will have to feed again normally and […]