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Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
Two months after India became the second nation in the world with a population greater than 1 billion, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and other government leaders will meet tomorrow to develop a strategy for slowing the nation’s population growth. Since the birth of India’s symbolic billionth baby on May 11, another 3.5 million […]
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Cod's Wallop
In one of the toughest judicial actions taken under the Endangered Species Act in the last decade, a federal judge yesterday banned trawl-net fishing for pollock, cod, and other bottom fish in large ocean areas off Alaska, citing a need to protect endangered Steller sea lions. The sea lions forage for the same fish chased […]
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Sticking It to 'em
Willamette Industries, Inc., a major U.S. plywood manufacturer, agreed yesterday to a $93.2 million settlement with the feds, the largest figure ever in a case involving air pollution from factories. The adhesives used to glue together sheets of plywood give off volatile organic compounds that contribute to smog, and EPA Administrator Carol Browner said the […]
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Eights and Pains
As leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations meet for three days in Okinawa, Japan, environmentalists are hoping to focus attention on green issues. Activists are calling on the nations — in particular, Canada, Japan, and the U.S. — to end logging subsidies that destroy forests and waste government money. A report released […]
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I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness
Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration’s conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight […]
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M'mm M'mm Good
A coalition of U.S. consumer and enviro groups kicked off a big campaign yesterday to pressure major food companies to abandon the use of genetically modified (GM) crops. Its first targets will be the Campbell Soup Co. and Kellogg’s. The activists hope to encourage tens of thousands of consumers to call directly on companies to […]
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Nick of Time
Singers Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley and actor James Garner yesterday donated the final cash needed to temporarily block logging in a stand of ancient redwoods in northern California known as the “hole in the Headwaters.” The Sierra Club and the Environmental Protection Information Center filed suit in March to stop Pacific Lumber Co. from […]
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Goodbye, Mr. Fish and Chips
Enviros are warning that Britain’s culinary claim to fame, fish and chips, could disappear unless the nation does a better job of managing its marine resources. The World Wildlife Fund says stocks of cod, the traditional accompaniment to fried potatoes, are being severely depleted because of overfishing, pollution, and rising ocean temperatures. The group is […]
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A Hull of a Problem
The U.S. oil industry is engaged in a cynical ploy to dodge federal regulations that require safer tankers, putting the Pacific coastline, from Alaska to California, at risk for a huge oil spill, writes Jim Fulton, the head of the David Suzuki Foundation in Canada. In the wake of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, […]
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Oh, Goody — Organic Ragu!
Organic farming is undergoing a boom in Italy and other southern European countries. Thanks to rising demand and generous European Union subsidies for the conversion of farmland to organic growing, the land area in Italy devoted to organic farming has doubled in the past three years, and organic farming is quickly gaining ground in Spain […]
