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 Editorials | Environmental
Oil Spills Continue From Mexico's Rusty Pipelines
 Reuters
Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex has reported another oil spill, the latest in a long series from its old and corroded pipeline network, despite the company's vow to cut down on such accidents.more »»»
Woodpecker Thought Extinct Rediscovered
 Randolph E. Schmid
The ivory-billed woodpecker, once prized for its plumage and sought by American Indians as magical, was thought to be extinct for years. Now it's been sighted again and conservationists are exulting.more »»»
Vietnam: The Unpunished Crimes of Agent Orange
 René Backmann
Thirty years after the return of peace, while American veterans who were poisoned by the defoliants the United States Air Force spread obtained reparations twenty years ago, Vietnamese civilians have just had their suit dismissed.more »»»
Mexican Environmentalist Jailed on Defamation Charges
 Associated Press
One of Mexico's best-known environmental activists has been arrested on charges of defaming a businessman in the Caribbean coast resort of Cancun after she protested the questionable importation of dolphins for an aquatic theme park.more »»»
Expert: Apes May Be Key to Human Nature
 Amy Lorentzen
Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh sounds like a proud mother when she speaks about her brood of bonobos, eight ultra-intelligent apes that will take part in unique language research meant to shed light on their nature and maybe our own.more »»»
Cyber Environmentalists Act from Labrador Peninsula to Baja Peninsula
 Talli Nauman
Many are the times that environmentalists from around the world have answered Mexican pleas for support of domestic causes. It is heartening to see that now conservationists in Mexico are taking up the banner for an issue far from home.more »»»
Environment Award for Mexican Indian
 Jane Kay
Isidro Baldenegro Lopez was talking with his father when high-powered rifle shots cracked from the forest, killing his father, a Tarahumara Indian leader, two decades ago in a Sierra Madre mountain pueblo in Chihuahua, Mexico. Baldenegro, then 19, knew the reason for the gunfire.more »»»
The Beauty of Wind Farms
 David Suzuki
I have one of the most beautiful views I have seen, and I would gladly share it with a wind farm. But sometimes it seems like I'm in the minority. All across Europe and North America, environmentalists are locking horns with the wind industry over the location of wind farms.more »»»
Monarchs Come to the End of Another Losing Season
 Talli Nauman
As the monarch butterfly’s November-March migration season in Mexico draws to the close of another cycle, this year’s evaluation of threats to its delicate balance is once again worrisome.more »»»
US in Race to Unlock New Energy Source
 David Adam
More than a mile below the choppy Gulf of Mexico waters lies a vast, untapped source of energy. Locked in mysterious crystals, the sediment beneath the seabed holds enough natural gas to fuel America's energy-guzzling society for decades, or to bring about sufficient climate change to melt the planet's glaciers and cause catastrophic flooding, depending on whom you talk to.more »»»
Nuclear Power 'Regaining Stature' as Option
 Associated Press
Only by building more nuclear power stations can the world meet its soaring energy needs while averting environmental disaster, experts at an international conference said Monday.more »»»
The State of the World? It Is on the Brink of Disaster
 Steve Connor
Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century.more »»»
Cuba Reopens Border to Canadian Cattle after Mad Cow Disease Scare
 Canadian Press
Cuba has reopened its border to live Canadian cattle, nearly two years after the Caribbean island country blocked such imports over a single case of mad cow disease discovered in Alberta.more »»»
To Save the Planet
 Le Monde
Several years ago, the first people to sound the alarm over climactic warming garnered only sarcasms, or, at best, polite indifference. Today in France, a public organization, the Agency for the Environment and Energy Control (Ademe), broadcasts ads to remind the population to contribute to the fight against warming.more »»»
Runoff May Harm Marine Life In Mexico
 Terence Chea
Agricultural runoff is triggering massive algae blooms that could harm marine life in the Gulf of California, one of Mexico's most important fishing regions, according to a study published Thursday.more »»»
Turf: The Green Dream: The Man Who Invented Ecotopia
 Geov Parrish
The following is Geov Parrish's interview with Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach on the 30th anniversary of his futuristic novel about Pacific Northwest secession, where he talks about localism, the future, and the state of Ecotopian ideals.more »»»
US Lawmakers Seek Plan B for Nuclear Waste
 Erica Werner
As problems mount with the US government's plan to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, lawmakers and industry officials are increasingly pushing for a Plan B.more »»»
Canada Unveils Annual Seal Hunt, Blasts Activists
 David Ljunggren
Canada said Tuesday it would allow 320,000 young seals to be killed this year and lashed out at activists who promise to boycott Canadian seafood products in a bid to stop the hunt.more »»»
Fans of GM Electric Car Fight the Crusher
 Greg Schneider & Kimberly Edds
GM agrees that the EV1 was a rousing feat of engineering that could go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under eight seconds with no harmful emissions, but that the market just wasn't big enough to support their continued manufacture.more »»»
Iraq Invasion May Be Remembered as Start of the Age of Oil Scarcity
 Robert Collier
Two years ago, it seemed likely that Iraq, with the world's third-largest petroleum reserves, would become a hypercharged gusher once U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein. But chaos and guerrilla sabotage have slowed the flow of oil to a comparative trickle.more »»»
Polluting Paradise
 The Guardian UK
The US Senate's recent 51-49 vote ended a long struggle with big oil companies and has fuelled concerns that other unspoilt corners of America will be blighted by drilling rigs, pipelines and the ugly infrastructure that goes with them.more »»»
US Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Drilling
 H. Josef Hebert
Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided US Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for Bush.more »»»
Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain
 Reuters
Australian scientists have found that deforestation along the Amazon River in South America was reducing rainfall and causing climate change in the region.more »»»
Pilot Study to Measure Mexican Truck Emissions
 Dina Cappiello
U.S. and Arizona environmental officials will be testing the pollution coming from waiting truck's exhaust pipes — pollution that locals say creates a daily haze over the Mariposa Port of Entry.more »»»
Mexico's Gulf Coast in Peril from Global Warming
 Keralanext
Scraping out a living by fishing, and preoccupied by the constant threat of water contamination from factory waste and leaky oil pipelines, fishermen here have never heard of global warming.more »»»
Whales Make A Comeback Off Mexico
 Mary Jordan
The gray whales are back, jumping and splashing like 30-ton, sugar-buzzed schoolchildren in the luminous blue-green waters of this remote lagoon at San Ignacio, Mexico.more »»»
The Final Proof: Global Warming Is a Man-Made Disaster
 Steve Connor
Scientists have found the first unequivocal link between man-made greenhouse gases and a dramatic heating of the Earth's oceans, and should convince George Bush to drop his objections to the Kyoto treaty on climate change, the scientists say.more »»»
UN Predicts 9.1 Billion People on Earth by 2050
 Evelyn Leopold
The human race is expected to swell from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion people by 2050, with populations exploding in hungry developing countries and stagnating in rich nations, the United Nations predicts.more »»»
Brazil's President Creates Massive Forest Reserves after Killing of American Nun
 Michael Astor
Brazil's president ordered the creation of two massive new rain forest reserves Thursday amid increasing pressure to protect a lawless Amazon region from violent loggers and ranchers after the killing last weekend of an American nun who fought to protect the jungle.more »»»
'No Surge' In Minke Whale Numbers
 Paul Rincon
Genetic research on Tokyo whale meat reveals that minke whales may not be experiencing an unprecedented surge in numbers as had previously been thought. It was said the species' success had hampered the recovery of other whales, and that hunting of minkes would be sustainable and beneficial.more »»»
Al Gore, Global Warming and Moral Leadership
 Kelpie Wilson
The Kyoto Treaty on global warming has gone into effect and for the first time the world has united (with the exception of the U.S. and Australia) to begin to address the greatest threat humankind has ever faced.more »»»
Tilting at Windmills
 Bill McKibben
Finally, American environmentalists have a chance to get it right about wind power, as news broke this week of plans for the first big wind energy installation in the Adirondack Park.more »»»
Mixed Feelings as Treaty on Greenhouse Gases Takes Effect
 Mark Landler
It is bad enough that American and Chinese companies will not bear the extra costs of the Kyoto Accords, but worse, the ultimate goal of curbing greenhouse gases will not be realized.more »»»
Canada Backs Terminator Seeds
 John Vidal
An international moratorium on the use of one of the world's most controversial GM food technologies may be broken today if the Canadian government gets seed sterilisation backed at a UN meeting.more »»»
Global Warming Bill Means Thousands of New Jobs
 US Natural Resources Defense Council
Major global warming legislation would add more than 800,000 new jobs in America by 2025, according to a new study released today.more »»»
It's a Warmer World, But Does That Mean Armageddon?
 Alister Doyle
When bears wake early from hibernation, Australia suffers its worst drought in 100 years and hurricanes hammer Florida should we believe The End is nigh? That's the nub of a debate over the human impact on global warming.more »»»
Scientists' Grim Climate Report
 Richard Black
The risks from global warming are more serious than previously thought, a major climate conference has concluded. In its final report, the committee which organised the UK Met Office meeting said the impacts of climate change were already being felt.more »»»
Guide To Climate Change - Evidence And Predictions
 BBC
If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right, our planet is heading for some big upheavals. Find out how the greenhouse effect works, why the Gulf Stream might change and how hot experts think it might get.more »»»
Nine New Environmental 'Hot Spots' Listed
 Reuters
A global study has identified nine new environmental "hot spots," areas of great ecological diversity that are under threat and together shelter most of the planet's endangered plant and animal species.more »»»
Arctic Ozone Layer Is Thinning, Scientists Report
 Reuters
The ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned due to colder-than-normal temperatures, and "large scale losses" are likely if the cold conditions continue, a European research group reported.more »»»
A Warming Climate
 The Washington Post
For the past four years members of the Bush administration have cast doubt on the scientific community's consensus on climate change, but "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too,"more »»»
Global Warming Is 'Twice As Bad As Previously Thought'
 Steve Connor
Global warming might be twice as catastrophic as previously thought, flooding settlements on the British coast and turning the interior into an unrecognisable tropical landscape, the world's biggest study of climate change shows.more »»»
Why the Sun Seems to Be 'Dimming'
 David Sington
We are all seeing rather less of the Sun, according to scientists who have been looking at five decades of sunlight measurements. They have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling. more »»»
Did Jesus Wear Birkenstocks?
 Alexander Zaitchik
It's always a learning experience with the Christian Right. Visit the websites of their leading organizations and you'll find out about problems you didn't know you had, threats you didn't know the country faced. But try to find any mention of the melting ice caps or the planet's quickening extinction rate, and ye shall seek in vain.more »»»
Mexico's Pemex Faces Infrastructure Woes
 Mark Stevenson
Alejandro Mendoza, a supervisor for Mexico's state-owned Pemex oil company, gazes out at a pipeline that dumped thousands of barrels of crude into the Coatzacoalcos river. "It's as old as I am," he notes. "It was built in 1976, the year I was born."more »»»
Alpinists' Ice-Dreamy Mountains Melting Away
 Katy Human
Where there was once cold, hard ice, there is now dirty slush and crumbling rock - from the peaks and slopes of many of the world's most challenging mountains, ice and snow are dripping away, reshaping the century-old sport of alpinism and disquieting longtime mountain climbers.more »»»
Nature: A Real Moral Value
 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
As President Bush prepares his plans for a second term, he should remember that the name on the Oval Office door isn't the only thing that will stay the same - another is America's broad, bipartisan consensus about conservation, health and environmental stewardship.more »»»
On Receiving Harvard Med's Global Environment Citizen Award
Bill Moyers
 In presenting the award, Meryl Streep, a member of the Center board, said, "...Moyers has examined an environment under siege with the aim of engaging citizens." Here is the text of his response to Ms. Streep's presentation of the award.more »»»
Live Free and Die
 Judy Blunt
The overpopulation of wild horses is a serious problem in the West. The Sonora Mexico Wild Horse Repatriation Project seeks to establish a sanctuary in Mexico to sustain 10,000 horses in a natural environment. But projects like this are howled down by animal-rights groups that complain about sterilization and other issues.more »»»
Mangroves Can Act as Shield Against Tsunami
 G. Venkataramani
Tsunami is a rare phenomenon. Though we cannot prevent the occurrence of such natural calamities, we should certainly prepare ourselves to mitigate the impact of the natural fury on the population inhabiting the coastal ecosystems.more »»»
How Environmentalists Can Matter Again
 Adam Werbach
President Bush's re-election is only the most recent signal that the environmental movement cannot perform its basic function of protecting the environment, and every major global ecological indicator is heading in the wrong direction.more »»»
Global Warming, Pollution Add to Coastal Threats
 Alister Doyle
A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in the future.more »»»
The Ends of the World as We Know Them
 Jared Diamond
History warns us that when once-powerful societies collapse, they tend to do so quickly and unexpectedly. That shouldn't come as much of a surprise: peak power usually means peak population, peak needs, and hence peak vulnerability. What can be learned from history that could help us avoid joining the ranks of those who declined swiftly?more »»» |
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