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  • Ouch, That Mega-Hurts

    As more Americans move to get rid of old personal computers, the nation may face a significant environmental problem. PCs contain traces of toxic chemicals such as mercury, and one survey found that old computer monitors are one of the largest sources of lead in landfills. A report released this month by the National Safety […]

  • Russians Play Roulette with Pollution

    Many Russian towns, heavily polluted by decades of emissions from filthy factories, are facing a devil’s choice between keeping factories running and thus endangering residents’ health or shutting them down and impoverishing residents. In the southern town of Karabash, where a 90-year-old copper-smelting plant long spewed pollution, two-thirds of the children in the town suffer […]

  • Lynx Report Un-Vail-ed

    A recent government report unearthed by environmentalists notes “substantial” evidence that rare Canada lynx live on land that the Vail ski resort in Colorado wants to use for a multimillion-dollar expansion. In a lawsuit now before a federal appeals court, environmentalists allege that the U.S. Forest Service approved Vail’s expansion plans without regard for the […]

  • Does This Deal MacBlo?

    Environmentalists are wary of a deal announced yesterday in which U.S.-based Weyerhaeuser will pay nearly $2.5 billion in stock for Canada’s MacMillan Bloedel, merging two major North American timber and paper companies. MacMillan Bloedel has been at the center of many environmental conflicts over old-growth logging in British Columbia. Last year, the company announced that […]