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We've Got Spirit, How 'Bout You?
Enviros are campaigning hard to stop logging in the Great Bear Rainforest on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, a biologically rich area that is the only home of the Spirit Bear, a rare white subspecies of black bear. Meanwhile, some activists who have been battling to end old-growth logging on the coast have served […]
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And other words from readers
Re: Won’t You Be My Nader? Dear Editor: I am disappointed to hear that Donella Meadows plans to vote for Ralph Nader and is encouraging her readers to do the same. While I agree that he is more committed to environmental issues than Al Gore, voting for Gore is, in Meadows’s own words, “the undeniably […]
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In the Pipeline of Fire
The U.S. federal agency that oversees the safety of oil and gas pipelines is too closely tied to industry and has failed to implement safety measures mandated by Congress, according to a harsh report by the General Accounting Office. Between 1990 and 1998, the proportion of enforcement actions brought by the Office of Pipeline Safety […]
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Hannah Stewart, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory
Hannah Stewart is the controlled flow environment specialist on the mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Friday, 16 Jun 2000 CONCH REEF, Fla CONCH REEF, Fla. We got a bit of a […]
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The Hansen Bothers
The House yesterday decisively voted down a conservative attempt to curb President Clinton’s ability to create and manage new national monuments. Forty-six Republicans joined Democrats in voting to kill an amendment sponsored by Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah) that would have prohibited the Interior Department from spending money to design or manage the eight national monuments […]
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Blue Birds
If climate change increases El Nino activity, as some scientists believe, the number of migratory songbirds that spend their summers in North American forests could decline significantly, suggests a study published today in the journal Science. Researchers from Dartmouth College and Tulane University found that El Nino climate cycles reduce the insect and caterpillar food […]
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Study Buddies
Led by the unusual duo of Sens. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the Senate yesterday approved a transportation spending bill recommending that the federal government be allowed to study current corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles and determine if they should be boosted. For five years, the Clinton administration has been […]
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Old Coal Kings
Two senators from big coal-producing states are trying to thwart plans to mothball a coal-fired power plant that heats the U.S. Capitol and replace it with a system that uses cleaner natural gas and fuel oil. Capitol architect Alan Hantman had proposed the upgrade to the plant, which is among the most polluting facilities in […]
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A Green and Pleasant Iceland
British supermarket company Iceland, the first supermarket chain to ban genetically modified foods, announced yesterday that it is investing more than $13 million in a push to make organic produce available to customers at prices comparable to those of foods grown with pesticides. Iceland has made deals to buy nearly 40 percent of the world’s […]
