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Hunters Stew
In a move enviros are cheering, British Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh has decided to ban grizzly bear hunting in the province for the next three years while scientists determine just how many of the bears are left. Rick Smith of the International Fund for Animal Welfare gushed that “the government has stood up for good […]
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Double, Double, Soil and Trouble
The Arctic’s permafrost is melting in places, causing soil that is no longer frozen to release greenhouse gases and potentially speed global warming, according to U.N. scientists. The implications could be huge for the planet — about 14 percent of the world’s carbon is stored in the frozen soil. In light of all the recent […]
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Recount!
1.2 billion — number of dollars raised by Democratic and Republican candidates for federal office in the 2000 election cycle 110:1 — ratio of anti-environmental (construction, chemical, and energy/natural resource) PAC contributions to environmental PAC contributions 9 — estimated number of dollars spent by candidates for federal office per registered voter in the United States […]
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Kelp Wanted
Seaweed Day in Japan was a bummer yesterday for environmentalists and fishers. They are in a tizzy over a project to reclaim land on what was the country’s largest tidal wetland on Isahaya Bay in the Ariake Sea. The government closed flood-control dikes and ramped up its project to convert the wetland to solid ground […]
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So Much for the Rule of the Law
To the delight of the timber, energy, and mining industries, the Bush administration has delayed for at least two months former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forest land. However, because the plan was published in the Federal Register before President Bush took office, enviros are saying […]
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Tamayo, Tamayo, I Love You, Tamayo
Mexican President Vicente Fox met yesterday with supporters of two jailed environmental activists and asked his lawyers to review whether the activists had been framed. Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, who led peasant farmers in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero in protests against rampant logging in their region, have been sentenced to seven and 10 […]
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Whitman Sampler
Muckraker hears from a reliable and informed source that Linda Fisher, EPA assistant administrator for toxics and pesticides under Bush the Elder, will return to the agency to serve as Christine Todd Whitman’s number two. The source described the Fisher appointment as close to a done deal, a fact that did not sit altogether well […]
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Get a Piece of the Rock — Before It Goes Under Water
An increase in natural disasters as a result of global warming could cost the world more than $300 billion a year by 2050, says a report to the U.N. by one of the world’s largest reinsurers, Munich Re. The report says the losses would be the consequence of more tropical storms, loss of land due […]
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Remorse Cod
Ozone layer depletion may be contributing to the decline of cod stocks in New England, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Using lab experiments, researchers at the University of New Hampshire found that ultraviolet radiation penetrating the atmosphere could be fatal or debilitating to cod embryos and larvae, which live […]
