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 Editorials | Environmental
Hurricane Could Turn City into Toxic Cesspool
 Associated Press
Hurricane Katrina didn't deliver a direct hit on New Orleans Monday, there still were fears that the storm could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.more »»»
States to the Rescue
 NYTimes
It's been obvious for some time that state governments are taking the problems of global warming much more seriously than the Bush administration is. Hardly a month goes by without another example of the gap between palpable alarm at the state level and Washington's stubborn passivity. This week provided two more.more »»»
Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf Could Have Global Effects
 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News
The unprecedented collapse of an ice-shelf in Antarctica could indirectly lead to a significant rise in global sea levels, researchers say. The Larsen B ice shelf covered more than 3,000 square kilometres and was 200 metres thick until its northern part disintegrated in the 1990s. Three years ago, the central part also broke up.more »»»
Study Predicts World's Population Will Grow
 Harry Dunphy
Global population growth is ensured for many decades, with most of it in developing countries. The rapid growth in developing countries, combined with declining birth rates in some industrialized nations, could affect the ability of the wealthy to aid the poor, said a demographer who prepared the group's report.more »»»
Deadly Tsunami Reached Around the Globe
 Randolph E. Schmid
Last year's Sumatra tsunami focused its death and destruction on the lands around the Indian Ocean, but the great wave traveled around the world and was recorded as far away as Peru and northeastern Canada.more »»»
Global Warming: Will You Listen Now, America?
 Andrew Buncombe
Two of the leading contenders to contest the next US presidential election have delivered an urgent warning to the United States on global warming, saying the evidence of climate change has become too stark to ignore and human activity is a major cause.more »»»
It's All About the Dolphins...
 Erich Haubrich
Prominent throughout our oceans and rivers, dolphins take on a persona that is adored worldwide. We see them jumping, playing, and even hear them laughing as they have fun in the ocean. Dolphins are some of the most highly intelligent creatures on earth.more »»»
Toxic Threat Deadly Real
 Hiroshi Takahashi
The good news is that the government has identified 31 sites which are highly contaminated with industrial waste. The bad news is that the real number of sites is vastly higher, in the hundreds, maybe the thousands. Nobody knows the real numbers.more »»»
Islands Named U.N. World Heritage Site
 Wire services
Government officials on Monday said they hoped to attract international experts to protect a sprawling new World Heritage Site on the Sea of Cortes in northwest Mexico. The spread of islands and ecologically rich waters spans hundreds of kilometers, from the Colorado River delta to the offshore prison colony at Islas Marias.more »»»
Mexico Vow After Turtle Killings
 BBC
Mexico is to increase protection for its sea turtle population after about 80 were found slaughtered. The remains of the Olive Ridley turtles were found - in the middle of nesting season - on Escobilla beach in the southern Oaxaca state last weekend.more »»»
CAFTA Bodes Ill For The Environment
 Talli Nauman
With the recent approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Mexico's neighbors to the south are about to get their own helping of what already has been dished out to the employees of foreign-owned actories operating under NAFTA in Mexico: a deepening morass of environmental health problems.more »»»
Hurricane Caused 'Tallest Wave'
 BBC
Hurricane Ivan generated a wave more than 90 feet (27 metres) high - thought to be the tallest and most intense ever measured - scientists have revealed. It would have dwarfed a 10-storey building and had the power to snap a ship in half - but never reached land.more »»»
Environmental Damage On Earth Seen From Shuttle
 Jeff Franks
Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.more »»»
Peasants Pay with Blood to Save Mexico Forest
 Lorraine Orlandi
In their efforts to stop the ruthless logging of the Petatlan Sierra in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, many peasant leaders have been jailed, tortured and even killed.more »»»
Sea Lion Killings Rising
 Rosa María Fierros
Despite federal regulations protecting the species, the killing of sea lions in Todos Santos Bay has been a long-term phenomena. Because the animals like to eat the same fish that have attracted fishermen and hatchery owners to the area, the sea lions have made human enemies who have taken out their frustrations by means of violence.more »»»
Guatemalan Scavengers Endure Toxins
 María De Jesús Peters
Hundreds of migrant Indians toil amidst hazardous wastes at the Tapachula dump, sorting through garbage without proper protection. Many exhibit signs of skin infections from direct contact with dangerous waste materials. But as illegal, nonresident workers, they receive no health care from the local or state governments.more »»»
US Congress Passes National Energy Plan
 Associated Press
After years of stalemate, Congress on Friday sent President Bush a national energy plan touted by supporters as providing a diverse mix of fuels, new jobs, cleaner burning coal and the next generation of nuclear reactors.more »»»
Keep Nuclear Waste off Native Lands
 David Swanson
Congressman Dennis Kucinich opened the proceedings, welcomed the speakers, and began by denouncing the activities of the Private Fuel Storage (PFS) Limited Liability Consortium, which has proposed this latest "solution" to the problem of nuclear waste.more »»»
Ringing the Alarm for Earth
 Tim Radford
Botanists such as Peter Raven begin with the big picture of sustainable growth and can calculate to the nearest planet how much land and sea it would take to sustain the population of the world if everybody lived as comfortably as the Americans, British or French.
The answer is three planets.more »»»
EPA Paid Weather Channel for Videos
 Christopher Lee
The Environmental Protection Agency paid the Weather Channel $40,000 to produce and broadcast several videos about ozone depletion, urban heat problems and the dangers of ultraviolet radiation as part of the Bush administration's efforts to inform the public about climate change, agency records show.more »»»
The Tragic Abuse of Corn
 Kelpie Wilson
It was one of those things that you can't quite believe is real. I was flipping through a magazine and saw an ad for a stove that burns corn. For heat. Corn is food, not fuel, I thought, but the ad assured me that "Corn is replenished annually. It is a never-ending energy source, and thus is the new alternative fuel of choice."more »»»
Gulf of California Given Spotlight as U.N. World Heritage Site
 Sandra Dibble
With its rich marine life and numerous endemic species, the Gulf of California has been called "the world's aquarium." Last week, the region joined an exclusive club – that of U.N. World Heritage sites.more »»»
Nations to Join Forces on Air Quality
 Julián Sánchez
NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Mexican government will work together on a project to measure pollution in Mexico City in 2006, said Mexican scientist and 1995 Nobel chemistry prize winner Mario Molina on Friday.more »»»
Conservation Efforts Building Steam Across the Nation Despite Challenges
 Jeremy Schwartz
Environmentalists here celebrated a record-breaking land conservation deal in November that will protect more than 370,000 acres of tropical forest in Campeche on the Yucatan peninsula, home to the largest jaguar habitat outside the Amazon.more »»»
Anti-Logging Activists Besieged
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
Guerrero Felipe Arreaga, a farmer-turned-environmentalist, has been sitting in a cramped, squalid jail here for eight months, charged with murdering the son of his nemesis, a wealthy landowner who brokered the sale of much of the lumber in the nearby mountains.more »»»
Group Of Eight Furor Affects Sustainable Development
 Talli Nauman
The furor over the Group of Eight rich nations’ annual meeting caught up Mexico this time around and with good reason: The agenda highlighted collaboration in the international effort to counter global warming for the ultimate purpose of environmental sustainability.more »»»
Wyoming Helps to Save Struggling Mexican Pronghorn
 Wire services
Wildlife experts from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, F.E. Warren Air Force Base and Mexico captured 47 fawns on the west edge of Cheyenne in June and flew them to the Mexican state of Coahuila, to help replenish a herd on the brink of extinction.more »»»
Bush Arrives at Summit Session, Ready to Stand Alone
 Richard W. Stevenson & Alan Cowell
President Bush arrived in Scotland on Wednesday for a summit meeting of the big industrial nations after signaling that he would not budge on one of the most contentious issues dividing the United States from its allies - how best to address global warming.more »»»
Former Senator Who Founded Earth Day Dies
 Ryan Nakashima
Thirty-five years after the first Earth Day, April 22 is still a day on which many people plant trees, clean up trash and lobby for a clean environment. A conservationist years before it became fashionable, Gaylord Nelson was recognized as one of the world's foremost environmental leaders.more »»»
Global Climate Change Threatens Club Med
 Robin Pomeroy
Global climate change will bring hotter, drier summers to the Mediterranean and hit two of the region's biggest earners, agriculture and tourism, according to a study released by environmental group WWF.more »»»
Mexican Environment Secretary Resigns to Seek Presidency
 Associated Press
Environment Secretary Alberto Cardenas resigned on Thursday to seek the presidential nomination of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party. Cardenas, a 47-year-old industrial engineer became Fox's top environmental official in September 2003.more »»»
New Catfish Species Found in Chiapas
 Wire services
Mexican and U.S. researchers said they believe an ancient looking, rarely seen fish in a Mexican river represents a new species of catfish and an entire new taxonomic family.more »»»
If Big Quake Hits Off Coast, Tsunami Could Be Gigantic
 David Perlman
If a giant magnitude 9 earthquake strikes someday along the coast of the Pacific Northwest, or if, against all odds, an errant asteroid plunges into the ocean many miles off California, a monstrous tsunami could drown low-lying lands all up and down the continent's western edge.more »»»
U.S. Environmental Policy Shift Worries Mexican Industry
 Business Wire
A Mexican law firm, concerned over the shift in U.S. environmental enforcement policy that would apply U.S. law to Mexican companies with operations entirely outside the United States, today sent a formal protest to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about the threat the policy poses to Mexican sovereignty.more »»»
Mexican Wolves Clash with Cows, Fuel Debate Over Reintroduction Effort
 Paul Krza
Some southeastern New Mexico ranchers say the reintroduction of the Mexican Wolf has tossed a wild card into their already precarious cattle operations, another bite out of their already slim profits.more »»»
Don't Be Fooled: Advanced and Rational Societies Can Commit Environmental Suicide
 Johann Hari
When Tony Blair flew to Washington on Monday to discuss the rapid changes to the earth's climate caused by man, it is a shame he could not make a pit-stop on Easter Island - the most vivid illustration of the stakes human beings face.more »»»
Mexican Volcano Fires Up
 Kathryn Hansen - Geotimes
Residents of the villages near the Volcàn de Colima in the Mexican state of Jalisco know what it's like to live in the dangerous shadow of the most active volcano in Mexico, which has erupted more than 40 times since 1576. But this week's eruption exceeded the magnitude of all minor events in the last 20 years.more »»»
Climate: Doubt Is Lifted
 Louis-Gilles Francoeur
The academies of science of all the G-8 countries, as well as those of the three largest oil consumers among developing countries made an unprecedented political gesture when they signed a common declaration in London asserting that the doubt entertained by certain people with regard to climate change does not justify inaction.more »»»
Oil on Ice
 Kelpie Wilson
Oil on Ice is a new documentary on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that will show you exactly why drilling in ANWR is such a terrible idea. But that's not the reason to watch it. The reason to see it is for the wildlife footage.more »»»
Wetlands Become a Focus in Debate Over Canal Lining
 Sandra Dibble
For decades, nobody knew much about Mexico's Andrade Mesa wetlands. Covering some 8,000 acres, they lay hidden near the U.S. border. Now they have become a focal point in a delicate binational debate over water rights in this parched region.more »»»
New Studies on Legal Chemicals Bode Ill for Human Race
 Talli Nauman
As plastics proliferate in Mexico, the big news in environmental health journals these days about their hazardous phthalate content is a scientific wake up call to parents and other living creatures to shun needless synthetic products and choose non-toxic alternatives.more »»»
Situation Grim for Ecology
 Guillermina Guillén
On World Environment Day, the federal government's evaluation of the nation is grim: landfills are overflowing, most of the countryside is eroded due to over-logging and delicate eco-systems are threatened by industrial waste.more »»»
Mexico Pressured to Stop Attacks on Ecologists
 Lorraine Orlandi
International rights groups demanded on Wednesday that the Mexican government do more to protect environmental activists from violent attacks as they campaign against logging.more »»»
Tainted Waters
 Janine Zúñiga
Green stagnant water sits in the concrete Tijuana River channel near the San Ysidro border crossing. Bubbling water thick with sediment passes from Mexico, through Smuggler's Gulch into a U.S. sewage diverter, which sometimes works and at times is clogged with debris.more »»»
Pemex Oil Company Announces US$3 Billion Plan For Environmental Work
 Amy Guthrie
Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said it expects to spend US$3 billion to fix environmental problems at its facilities, including some of the country's problem-plagued pipelines.more »»»
Swiss Put Glacier Under Wraps to Slow Ice Melt
 Vincent Fribault
A Swiss ski resort is playing Christo and covering about 2,500 square meters of a glacier with a 4mm-thick thick sheet of white foil in order to slow its rate of melting. They want to preserve the bank of ice because it connects skiers to a lift.more »»»
Capital City Temps Show Notable Rise Over Last Century
 Angélica Simón
The average global temperature has increased an estimated 0.6 C or about 1.1. F over the last 100 years, meanwhile in the same span of time the average temperature of what has become one of the Earth's largest cities has risen a full 4 C, or 7.2 F.more »»»
Lagoon's New Status Will Change Lives
 Anton Caputo
Mexico's half of the Laguna Madre, or Mother Lagoon — a natural wonder shared with Texas that serves as nursery to 60 percent of the marine species found in the Gulf of Mexico, is a nature lover's paradise and home to more than 2,000 species of plants and animals.more »»»
Officials Demand Better Pipeline Maintenance
 Wire services
A plan by the nation's stateowned oil company to fix problem pipelines is "totally insufficient," and authorities may consider closing high-risk ducts threatening spills or explosions, the head of Mexico's environmental protection agency said Thursday.more »»»
GM Battle Sprouts in the States
 Eric Kelderman
Seed companies, pharmaceutical makers and biotechnology groups are pushing legislators to limit oversight of experimental crops designed to resist disease and insects or to produce chemicals and enzymes for scientific research.more »»»
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