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Merry Christmas, From an Angry Elf
The Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day fire that destroyed the Oregon regional headquarters of paper manufacturer Boise Cascade. In a communique sent to news agencies, the group contended that Boise Cascade has ravaged the forests of the Pacific Northwest and that it is now teaming up with a Chilean company […]
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Krilling Me Softly
The hole in the ozone layer may be responsible for a dramatic decline in krill numbers in the Antarctic Ocean, according to U.S. and German scientists working on a Japanese Fisheries Agency ship. The krill population off the Antarctic Peninsula south of Tierra del Fuego has dropped by about 75 percent since the mid-1980s, according […]
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Consuming Desires
Consumer demand for organic food is soaring in Europe, leading to a jump in the number of organic farms from 6,300 in 1985 to more than 100,000 in 1998, according to a report prepared last year for the European Union by Nicholas Lampkin of the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Lampkin predicted that 10 percent […]
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Tanks for Nothing
Up to 170,000 sea birds have been killed by a large oil spill off France’s western coast, which began on Dec. 12 when a tanker hired by the oil giant TotalFina spilt in two during stormy weather and sank in the waves, pouring 3 million gallons of oil into the Atlantic. Some of the oil […]
