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Chain Reaction

Enviros and human rights advocates chained themselves to the door of the Mexican attorney general’s office on Wednesday, calling for the release of two environmental activists who have been jailed on apparently trumped-up drug and weapons charges. Amnesty International, the Sierra Club, and other groups assert that Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera were arrested, tortured, […]

Getting Something Off Their Chests

A few environmental activists in California are trying a new tactic to bring a halt to the logging of ancient redwoods — “Goddess-based, nude Buddhist guerilla poetry,” or, in laywoman’s terms, females baring their breasts and reciting poetry to unsuspecting logging crews. “They stop their chainsaws and they stop their trucks and they pay attention,” […]

Risky Business

Fifty-six percent of Americans believe the environmental risks of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska outweigh the potential benefits, and only 29 percent say opening ANWR to drilling would be worth the risks, according to a poll conducted by the Mellman Group and released yesterday by The Wilderness Society and […]

Top Tense List

George W. Bush was grilled on air pollution in Texas and a number of other serious issues last night by none other than Dave Letterman. Letterman, who had Bush as a guest on his late night show, told the governor he thought it was a joke when he heard that Bush is pushing for oil […]

Fuels Rush In

Arizona is facing a major budget crisis because of a well-intentioned but poorly designed law that gives residents big incentives and tax breaks for buying vehicles that run on alternative fuels. The program was expected to cost between $3 million and $10 million, but so many residents have taken advantage of it that it is […]

One man taxes his way to a healthy relationship with the earth

Dev Carey is a tall, handsome man with a Ph.D. in ecology. He can swing dance like a pro, identify every plant in the meadow outside his house, and talk nervous youths into rappelling off cliffs. He can do many things, but one thing he can’t do is separate himself from the morality of any […]

Oiled Again!

Work began yesterday on a multibillion-dollar pipeline that will carry oil from Chad through Cameroon to Africa’s Atlantic coast, a project bitterly opposed by environmentalists and human rights advocates. The World Bank is supplying 3 percent of the financing for the $3.5 billion, 670-mile pipeline project, which is being spearheaded by ExxonMobil. Opponents argue that […]

Best of the Wurst

Hoping to gain the high ground on climate change, the German government announced new steps yesterday that are aimed at making sure the country fulfills its pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 21 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, as agreed to in the Kyoto climate change treaty. Measures passed yesterday include support for […]

This Sends Shivas Down Our Spine

India’s highest court gave its approval yesterday for a large hydroelectric dam on the Narmada river, a project that had been stalled for six years because of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. The government said that construction will resume immediately on the Sardar Sarovar dam, part of a massive hydroelectric project that will build some […]

Butterfly in the Ointment

A coalition of environmental groups, including Greenpeace, notified the U.S. EPA yesterday of intent to sue, contending that the agency could harm a number of endangered species such as the Karner blue butterfly if it renews licenses for genetically modified crops that are toxic to insects. A Cornell University study last year found that pollen […]