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A Great Bear Rainforest By Any Other Name
The Great Bear Rainforest, the region of British Columbia between the northern end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska Panhandle, doesn’t actually exist on the map. International environmental groups came up with the name in the mid-1990s as they campaigned for a boycott on old-growth lumber products from the region, and the name struck a […]
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Stock Tip: Buy Kleenex
The rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels that are leading to global warming may also worsen hay fever, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be published in the journal World Resource Review. Researchers say higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere seem to be causing ragweed to produce twice as much […]
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Red Hot Chile Cyclists
On the first Tuesday of every month, hundreds of “Ciclistas Furiosos,” or enraged bicyclists, take to the streets of Santiago, Chile. Riding as slowly as possible, waving flags, and blowing whistles, they tangle up traffic to protest the city’s dirty air, caused in large part by cars. The group, which began seven years ago and […]
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Mr. Green Beans
Eli Wolcott is all abuzz about socially responsible coffee. The 20-year-old is teaming up with coffee workers in the remote hills of southern Mexico to improve their quality of life and decrease the environmental damage caused by coffee production. Coffee-processing plants use large amounts of water that are then returned to streams, laden with nutrients […]
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Mr. Not-Green Jean
Canadian enviros on Monday blasted federal endangered species legislation introduced in April as far too weak, and criticized Prime Minister Jean Chretien for a lack of leadership on the issue. The bill would set fines for individuals of up to $168,000 and for companies of up to $670,000 for deliberately killing an endangered animal or […]
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If It Weren't for Those Medaling Kids …
Next month’s Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, have been billed as the “Green Games,” but Greenpeace says Olympic organizers deserve only a bronze medal for their efforts to make the games eco-friendly. Organizers pledged to make this Olympics the greenest ever, and Greenpeace acknowledges that they have. The group praised the use of renewable power; […]
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Gore in the Stocks
As President Clinton sang Al Gore’s praises yesterday to kick off the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a few thousand protestors raised their voices outside the convention hall, many of them calling on Gore to divest his family of shares in Occidental Petroleum Corp. Environmental and human rights activists are criticizing L.A.-based Occidental for […]
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Who Were Those Masked Men?
Hundreds of NATO peacekeepers wearing surgical masks shut down a lead smelter in Kosovo yesterday, citing environmental dangers caused by its emissions, which have been measured at levels 200 times those accepted by the World Health Organization. A number of outraged local residents threw rocks and sticks at the troops to protest the closing of […]
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Road Warriors
Environmentalists in Vietnam are battling a national highway project which they say threatens endangered wildlife. Construction began in April on the Ho Chi Minh Highway, which is planned to run for more than 1,000 miles from near Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, following parts of the legendary Ho […]
