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Impure As the Driven Snow
Snowmobiling is coming under increasing fire in the western U.S., not just from enviros but also from officials at a number of national forests and parks. Snowmobiles have been banned in recent years from some U.S. Forest Service land in Montana and northern Idaho, and they may soon be limited in Yellowstone National Park, the […]
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Marching to a Different Beat
Enviros of different stripes disagree on a lot of issues, but many have lamented in unison the recent absence of a full-time environmental writer at the New York Times. Got a hot story in need of some serious national ink? Whom do you call? USA Today? The news mags? The networks? Sure — you call […]
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Occidental Deaths?
Riot police clashed with members of Colombia’s indigenous U’wa tribe Friday, as the U’wa protested plans by Occidental Petroleum to drill for oil on traditional U’wa lands in northeastern Colombia. As many as five children may have fallen into a fast-flowing river and drowned in the aftermath of the clash, according to unconfirmed reports. About […]
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Flipper Flop
Three Asian species of dolphins may go extinct by 2020 if governments fail to cut pollution and destruction of the species’ habitats, according to scientists at the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation in Hong Kong. The first dolphin species to go will likely be China’s baiji dolphin; there are only about 30 left in the Yangtze […]
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Mississippi Crud
The Army Corps of Engineers discarded the work of economists who found that the costs of an extensive lock and dam project on the Upper Mississippi River would far outweigh the benefits, a senior Corps economist is charging in a legal affidavit. Donald Sweeney led an economics team in producing a study of the project, […]
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Dead in the Water
Here’s a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country’s eastern border. A wave of […]
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A Turner for the Better
Billionaire and media magnate Ted Turner, already the largest individual landholder in the U.S., has bought a big chunk of land in Florida’s panhandle that he says he’ll leave undisturbed as habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. The 3,620 acres, which Turner purchased for $11.6 million from a homebuilder and developer, abuts another large Turner […]
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Swapping Spat
Enviros are planning to lobby against a proposal in President Clinton’s new budget plan that would give the U.S. Forest Service wide authority to sell public lands. White House officials say the language is intended to help the government swap public tracts for more desirable private ones, but enviros say that if a conservative administration […]
