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No More Weepin' and A-Whalin'
Japan and Norway failed on Saturday in their controversial push to overturn an international ban on commercial trade in whales. Delegates from 150 nations at a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species rejected proposals that would have allowed trade in gray and minke whales. Whale defenders were heartened that Japan […]
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Sequoia and You Shall Find
Posed against a scenic background of giant sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada, President Clinton on Saturday designated the nation’s newest national monument. Commercial logging, mining, and some recreational activities will be banned in the 328,000-acre Grand Sequoia National Monument, which encompasses 34 groves of the ancient, giant trees. Acting under the 1906 Antiquities Act, which […]
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Galluping Ahead
Some 80 percent of Americans surveyed this month for a new Gallup Poll said they agree with the goals of the environmental movement, and 16 percent said they are actively involved in the movement. Public support for the environmental cause is higher now than it was on the first Earth Day, nearly 30 years ago, […]
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Good as Goldman
Vera Mischenko, a lawyer who established Russia’s first public-interest environmental law firm, is one of eight grassroots activists from around the world who today will receive prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes. Each year, the $125,000 awards are given to enviro activists from each inhabited continent. Other winners this year are: Nat Quansah, an ethnobotanist in Madagascar […]
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Denis Hayes, Earth Day Network
Denis Hayes is chair of Earth Day Network. He was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day in 1970 and now earns his keep as president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, Wash. He is also author of the new book The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair. Saturday, 15 Apr 2000 NEW […]
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Damn Those Snakes!
Federal officials say they are likely to delay making a recommendation about the fate of four dams on the Snake River in southeastern Washington until after the November presidential election. Enviros are waging a national campaign in favor of breaching the dams to help restore salmon populations. The National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Army […]
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This Stresses Me Out — I Need a Nice Cup of Herbal Tea
The growing popularity of herbal medicine, particularly in Western countries, is threatening the survival of a number of valuable wild plants, according to delegates to the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. Trade in at least 14 plants is already regulated because demand for herbal medicine is […]
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
A House-Senate conference committee yesterday dropped from a major budget bill a controversial provision that could have opened the way for oil and gas drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The measure, approved by the Senate last week, assumed that $1.2 billion would be raised from a lease sale of drilling rights […]
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Wind Without Sales
Construction is set to begin today on seven towering windmills that together will constitute the largest wind power project in the Eastern U.S. Most wind farms in the nation have been built by utilities, but this $16 million project planned for the rural town of Madison, N.Y., is being built on speculation, without a guaranteed […]
