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Mounties Always Get Their Species
Canada’s new environment minister, David Anderson, has outlined a tough proposal that would criminalize the destruction of habitat for endangered species. Canada currently has no law protecting endangered species, and an endangered species bill introduced by the Liberal Party in 1996 was harshly criticized by more than 600 Canadian scientists because it only protected habitat […]
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Follow the Leader
Throughout Pres. Clinton’s summer vacation, he’ll be followed by radio and print ads urging him to permanently ban road-building on up to 60 million acres of wild roadless national forest land. A $100,000 media blitz by the Heritage Forests Campaign will pay for 180 radio spots in Massachusetts, hoping to catch Clinton’s ear while he […]
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Re-Tire-Ment Benefits
Australian researchers say they have developed a highly efficient way to recycle car and truck tires to produce a rubber composite that could be used in shoe soles, car components, building products, coatings, sealants, and containers for hazardous waste. The researchers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization say their discovery could help deal […]
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We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
Governments around the world are failing to protect forests, and drastic action must be taken to curb commercial logging, according to a new report produced by a coalition of major international environmental groups. Logging threatens wildlife, exacerbates climate change, and causes flooding, soil erosion, and fire, the report says. Even selective logging, it says, causes […]
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Orangu-Tangle
Two enviro groups are launching a major campaign today to halt illegal logging that is threatening endangered orangutans in Indonesian national parks. About 80 percent of the orangutans’ forest habitat has been destroyed in the last 20 years, and the animals’ numbers have been halved in the last decade to no more than 25,000, according […]
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A Project Worth Its Salt
Pressure from environmentalists has led a major company in Mexico to modify a planned salt-mining operation along the Baja California coast, the first time a company in Mexico has modified a project because of public input. But a number of enviro groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, are still protesting the salt works operation, […]
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Oldman River Doesn't Just Keep Rolling Along
NAFTA’s environmental watchdog, the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation, has recommended that Canada be investigated to see whether the nation is adequately enforcing its environmental laws and protecting fish habitat. The recommendation stems from a 1996 complaint filed by the Alberta-based enviro group Friends of the Oldman River, which claimed that the Canadian government was […]
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What's Next, a Swarm of Locusts?
Survivors of Turkey’s massive earthquake last week now face the prospect of acid rain caused by pollution from a large oil refinery fire, according to Turkey’s health minister. A five-day blaze at the nation’s largest oil refinery, caused by the quake, spewed flames and dense smoke into the air until it was finally extinguished on […]
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Green and Pleasant Land?
The U.K. lags far behind many nations in the proportion of its land set aside for wildlife protection, according to a new report by Friends of the Earth U.K. Using World Conservation Union (IUCN) standards for protected nature areas, FoE compared the percentage of land set aside in the G8 industrialized nations and in certain […]
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Raul Alvarez, PODER and Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter
Raul Alvarez is transportation coordinator for People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER), an environmental justice group based in East Austin, Texas. He is also environmental justice director for the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter in Texas. Monday, 23 Aug 1999 AUSTIN, Texas I am happy to report that I had a […]
