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Tiggers Not Very Bouncy
Only some 5,000 to 7,000 tigers remain living in the wild — fewer than exist in captivity — and urgent action is needed to stop the creatures from disappearing completely, conservation experts warned yesterday. The tiger population has fallen from about 100,000 at the turn of the century, and three sub-species have already gone extinct. […]
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Windows Wide Shut
In the worst accident in Japan’s troubled history with nuclear power, workers in a fuel plant 87 miles northwest of Tokyo accidentally set off a chain reaction yesterday morning that spewed high levels of radiation into the air. More than 40 people, most of them plant employees, were being treated for radiation exposure, three people […]
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Jaguars and Pumas and Tapirs, Goodbye?
Mobil has discovered a natural gas reserve in a pristine, biologically rich tropical forest in Peru, and the company has until February to do more exploration and analysis and decide whether it will give up its claim on the area or hold it for future development. A tense national debate is brewing over whether the […]
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Polotix is Best When It's One-on-One
Al Gore, acknowledging that he has serious competition for the Democratic presidential nomination, said yesterday that he wants to debate Bill Bradley on environmental issues, among other topics. Most mainstream environmental groups are not ready to pull their support from Gore, as Friends of the Earth did when it endorsed Bill Bradley earlier this month, […]
