ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS

No. 10 to Approve GM Crop Growing
Downing Street issued the clearest hint yet that it will approve the commercial production of genetically modified crops - setting it on a collision course with Scotland's coalition government.

Roads Recipe
A waste product of rice has been used by Japanese scientists to make quieter roads. Surfaces using the material absorb noise better, drain faster and are less susceptible to extremes of temperatures. The new surfaces contain rice bran, the brown layer that separates rice grains from their husks.

Borders Homes Test New Rooftop Wind Turbines
Rooftop wind turbines on rural homes could be a part of a major breakthrough in energy conservation, if a bid to market the devices in the Borders is successful.

Wave Energy Generator Unveiled
The world leader in the race to harness the power of the seas unveiled its first complete prototype wave energy machine, in a move which could have huge environmental and economic benefits.

Noxious Undersea Eruptions Killing Billions of Fish
Undersea eruptions of noxious hydrogen sulphide are having a major impact on one of the world's richest fisheries. Satellite images show that toxic eruptions off the coast of Namibia are more frequent and widespread than anyone realised.

Asia's Desert Set to Bloom Again
Scientists in Russia have resurrected Soviet plans to redirect two mighty Siberian rivers hundreds of miles to the south in a bid to undo one of the world's worst economic disasters.

Experts Find Anti-Pollution Laws Are Outdated
Despite three decades of progress, existing air-quality laws are inadequate to prevent pollution from threatening the environment and human health, the nation's top scientific advisory group concluded.

How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age...

Latest 'Green' Designs: Some Freaky Furniture

Finding Flooring That's Earth-Safe

Green Housing Projects Become More Prevalent

Modern Mud Homes Are a Niche Market

Growing Energy Worries Prompt Greener Homes

Exterminators Withhold These 10 Dirty Secrets
Is keeping your home bug-free dangerous to your health? [ - Well, Duh! Of course it is!]

Energy-Efficient Homes Become Easier to Find
Prodded by a host of factors - including government incentives, more-affordable solar and other equipment and the potentioal for fewer battles with nearby residents and environmental groups - developers are moving into an arena that had largely been the domain of custom-home builders or homes in remote areas: They are building homes that are promising energy savings and a secure supply of electricity.

Conservationists Delighted by Discovery of 'Long Dead' Species of Moss
The rare aspen bristle moss had evaded a number of searches and was thought to be exinct in the UK.

Bucking a Toxic Trend
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co. sets out to become the first polyurethane foam company in the United States to eliminate brominated flame retardants.

Farming Magazines Enjoy the Limelight

Weedkillers Pose Greater Threat Than GM Crops
Use of weedkillers on conventional crops could pose more of a threat to the environment than genetically modified crops, a report has claimed.

EPA Scuttles Comparison of Ways to Control Mercury
Bush administration officials maneuvered last March to avoid a public comparison of the president's Clear Skies Initiative with other proposals for controlling mercury pollution in the air.

GM Company Faces Prosecution After Crop Trials
Campaigners against genetically modified crops have demanded the prosecution of a biotech company after it emerged that more of the GM trials carried out in Scotland over the past three years were contaminated with controversial antibiotic genes.

Navy Agrees to Restrict Sub-Detecting Sonar
The U.S. Navy has agreed to limit the peacetime use of a new high-intensity sonar to areas including the western Pacific and the Sea of Japan as part of a federal court settlement with conservationists who contend that the sonar may inflict deadly harm on whales, dolphins and other marine animals.

Will Engineered Extinction Kill Off the World's Greatest Killers?
The basic idea is simple. Specicide - the deliberate extinction of an entire species - could be engineered by exploiting the biology of selfish genetic elements.

New Plan: Kill Endangered Species to Save Them
The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries.

Hopping Mouse Sighted After 150 Years
A species of mouse that hops like a kangaroo and was believed extinct has been discovered in Australia, nearly 150 years after the last sighting.

Navy Sonar Affecting Whales
High-powered sonar from Navy ships appears to be giving whales and other marine mammals a version of the bends, causing them to develop dangerous gas bubbles in some tissues and blood vessels and to beach themselves and die, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

Dirty Secrets
Mother Jones: No president has gone after the nation's environmental laws with the same fury as George W. Bush -- and none has been so adept at staying under the radar.

City Lights Putting Out the Stars as 'Interstellar Vandalism' Spreads
A reduction in light pollution would triple the number of stars visible from big cities and towns, allowing many urban dwellers their first ever glimpse of the Milky Way, according to a new report. But if the problem continues, constellations such as Canis Major and Gemini, or even the contrasting ferrous glow of Mars, could disappear unless radical changes are introduced.

Bush Administration Sides With Pesticide Makers Against Farmers
In a change of interpretation, Environmental Protection Agency officials said they believe federal law bars lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers under state laws when a product fails to do what its federally approved label promises.

Tenn. Nuclear Plant to Make Energy, Bomb Material
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is days away from becoming the only commercial nuclear station in the United States to produce both electricity for homes and isotopes for bombs.

Refusing to Go with the Flow
Water, researchers are now discovering, remembers things.

Global Warming to Run Out of Gas
Catastrophic global warming due to fossil-fuel burning is unlikely because oil and gas will run out too quickly, scientists have claimed.

Wildlife Protection Takes Root
The Nature Conservation Bill will substantially strengthen support for all flora and fauna in Scotland from building and development as well as improving protection for Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Study Finds Environmental Regulations to be Profoundly Effective
A new White House study concludes that environmental regulations are well worth the costs they impose on industry and consumers, resulting in significant public heath improvements and other benefits to society. The findings overturn a previous report that officials now say was defective.

Global Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction
It kills more people than terrorism, yet Blair and Bush do nothing.

GOP Seeks to Open Spill-Cleanup Funds to PollutersA
The energy bill would be modified to let firms use tax money to help undo leak damage from their underground tanks.

Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Milk Samples from Texas Supermarkets
A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in supermarket milk at levels exceeding the federal government's currently recommended safe dose for drinking water, according to a peer-reviewed scientific study.

Enviromental Groups Want Records of Meetings with Polluters
Newly obtained documents from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal that the Bush administration is formalizing a back-room deal with the livestock and poultry industries that would let giant factory farm polluters off the hook for violation of the Clean Air Act and the Superfund hazardous waste law that have protected communities for decades. With this new incriminating evidence in hand, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, demanding that the Bush administration divulge information about its closed negotiations with the meat industry.

Majority Oppose GM CropsA
The public is overwhelmingly opposed to genetically modified (GM) crops, according to a new study.

White House Covers Up Climate Change Research
Emails and internal government documents obtained by The Observer show that officials have sought to edit or remove research warning that the problem is serious. They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack U.S. government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.

Illinois Prepares Legal Challenge to Bush Pollution Rules

Red Deer Numbers 'Out of Control'
Uncontrollable numbers of wild deer are threatening to ruin Scotland's high-mountain environment and the government body responsible for controlling the population does not have sufficient power to deal with the situation, according to a new report.

GM Go-Ahead Attacked Environment campaigners and opposition politicians have hit out at a suggestion that the government plans to back EU rules which would give the go-ahead to the commercial growing of genetically-modified (GM) crops.

Bush Points to Major Polluter as "Model of Clean Air Policy" Critics say the Monroe plant is one of the nation's dirtiest polluters and, under Bush's plan, would not have to reduce pollution for the next 17 years. According to projections by Bush's Environmental Protection Agency, the plant is predicted to continue pouring its current annual level of 102,700 tons of sulfur dioxide into the air each year through 2020.

Their Ocean Can wealthy developers and business execs do for the environment what grassroots activists haven't?

Greenpeace Obtains Smoking-Gun Memo: White House/Exxon Link Conservative front group may have thanked White House for help in suing EPA.

Garlic Tested in War Against Snails and Slugs British scientists have produced a special garlic extract that may just be the answer to gardeners' prayers.

Two EPA Officials Take Jobs with Firms Benefiting from Air Rule Change
Days after the changes in the power-plant pollution rule were announceed, John Pemberton, the chief of staff in the EPA's air and radiation office, told colleagues he would be joining Southern Co., and Atlanta-based utility that's the nation's No. 2 power-plant polluter and was a driving force in lobbying for the rule changes. Southern Co., which gave more than $3.4 million in political contribution over the past four years while it sought the changes, hired Pemberton as director of federal affairs.
Ed Krenik, who had been the EPA's associate administrator for congressional affairs, started work Tuesday with Bracewell & Patterson, a top Houston-based law firm that coordinated lobbying for several utilities on easing the power-plant pollution rule. The firm's Washington office also served as home base and shares staff with the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which was created by several utilities, including Southern Co., to be the public voice favoring the rule changes the EPA just enacted.
[ - It is so nice to know that the government is looking out for us, and always has our best interests at heart.]

Provision Threatens California Efforts to Cut Smog A spending bill measure sponsored by a Missouri senator would kill proposed standards for small engines, such as those in lawn mowers.

Coal Dirt Cheap New EPA Rule Threatens to Increase Local Pollution.

Researchers Reveal True Scale of Whale Slaughter Scientists have underestimated the number of humpback and other great whales that were slaughtered in the North Atlantic at the peak of the whaling industry, latest research shows.

No Outage for Bush President Bush calls the Eastcoast blackout a "wake-up call," and calls for the relaxing of environmental regulations on power plants.

Alarm Over Hungary's Shrinking Lake Central Europe's biggest fresh water lake is shrinking after years of hot summers and low rainfall, prompting fears of an ecological and economic catastrophe.

Japan Shaken by Butterfly Wars Asian butterfly collectors and breeders who let their specimens take wing are being denounced in Japan for the havoc they wreak on native species.

New Mushroom Pickers' Code to Protect Rare Fungi A massive increase in "fungi for free" harvesters, inspired by the gourmet recipes of television's celebrity chefs, is threatening wild mushrooms.

Fish Poachers Caught After Antarctic Chase Australian and South African sailors boarded a ship suspected of poaching the rare Patagonian toothfish [aka - Chilean sea bass] and arrested the crew, ending an epic 20-day chase through Antarctic seas.

Rare Butterflies Make a Comeback After 200 Years! Rare species of butterflies are colonising parts of Scotland where they have never been recorded and returning to areas where they have been absent for 200 years.

Draft of Air Rule Is Said to Exempt Many Old Plants The new rule would exempt thousands of industrial plants and refineries from part of the Clean Air Act, allowing them to make extensive upgrades without having to install new anti-pollution devices. The exemption would let industrial plants continue to emit hundreds of thousands of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere and could save the companies millions, if not billions, of dollars in pollution equipment costs, even if they increase the amounts of pollutants the emit.

Solar Patriot Help you country break free from it's addiction to foreign oil, become a solar patriot.

Will the Great Lakes Disappear? Do you know where your bottled water comes from? More...

Judge Refuses to Order Dounreay Beach Clean-Up A judge ruled that the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was breaking the law while particles of nuclear waste continued to appear on a beach next to the Dounreay plant in Caithness. However, Lady Paton refused to grant an order to the owner of the beach which would have forced the UKAEA to provide a more extensive clear-up program.

Cleaner Air, Courtesy of California General Motors and DaimlerChrysler have agreed to drop their lawsuits against a California rule requiring automakers to produce millions of cleaner, more efficient "hybrid" vehicles - cars powered by a combination of gasoline and electricity - over the next 15 years.

Inventive Nature Inventor creates an organic spray that, he says, has dramatically increased productivity of grapevines and other plants. "I want to restore agriculture to the level of health it was 100 years ago," he says, "before we degraded land and degraded food."

Army Begins Burning of Chemical Weapons in Alabama Town The Army believes that it is more dangerous to keep the aging, corroding weapons than to burn them. But try telling that to the 250,000 people who live within a 30-mile radius of the incinerator.

California to Ban Chemicals Used as Flame Retardants Reacting to research showing the rapid accumulation of widely used flame retardants in humans and wildlife, California will become the first state to ban the chemicals, which are suspected of contributing to learning disorders, attention deficit and hyperactivity in children.

After 30 Years, Ozone Is Recovering A report shows the rate of ozone destruction declining for the first time since CFCs were banned. Cell Phones Cause the Death of the Great Apes Desperately poor workers are slaughtering the eastern lowlands gorilla for food in a national park designed to protect them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In just three years, the gorilla population has plunged from 17,000 to less than 1,000 as people flock to the area in search of the metal known as coltan, wihc is used to make cell phones.

Split Verdict on GM Crops Review Genetically modified crops received cautious backing from a government scientific review group, but opponents said its findings simply highlighted the lack of proof that they are safe for health and the environment.

Is Organic Food Provably Better? Recent preliminary evidence suggests that the levels of certain nutrients, especially vitamin C, some minerals and some polyphenols - naturally occurring antioxidants that may help bolster the immune system - are higher in organically grown crops. [- Of course, this article is from the NY Times, which earns millions of dollars from advertising by chemical companies, so expect some anti-organic bias.]

Critics Say E.P.A. Won't Analyze Some Clean Air Proposals In the last several months, the E.P.A. has delayed or refused to do analysis on proposals that conflict with the president's air pollution agenda.

City Trees Outgrow Rural Cousins, and Study Credits Urban Chemistry A study in New York shows that Eastern cottonwoods grow twice as fast in the city as they do in rural areas.

Bush Pushes for Next Generation of Nukes Bush wants to resume nuclear testing in Nevada. [-Nukes? Aren't those "illegal weapons of mass destruction?"]

Spoon-Feeding Poison: EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People The Bush administration is now moving to endorse the testing of noxious and lethal chemicals on human beings. Since this spring, despite rife opposition from the medical community, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly begun lifting a 1998 ban on accepting such research. Once the prohibition is gone, which will likely happen next year, chemical companies will have the full support of the federal government to dose healthy young men and women with the latest insecticides, rodenticides, and fungicides.

Intensive Farming Threatens Wildflowers Quaintly named flowers like weasel's snout and shepherd's needle, which grow among farm crops, now account for one fifth of wild plants being targeted for protection, conservationists have announced.

Animal Rights Group to Sue Fast-Food Chain People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it would sue KFC to seek an improvement in the way chickens are raised and slaughtered.

$75 Rental in Hamptons (Tiny and Organic) A cooperative on Long Island is renting 20-by-20-foot plots of prime farmland to anyone who is willing to garden without chemical pesticides or fertilizers.

Republican Enviros Blast Bush for Withholding Information Withholding of vital environmental information is getting to be a bad habit with the Bush administration according to REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection.

Tourist Trinkets Playing a Part in Destruction of World's Rare Species Up to 20 percent of the world's animal and plant species are likely to die out by 2030, partly because of "rampant poaching" to meet the demand for tourist trinkets, a leading animal welfare organization is warning.

Natural Food Stores Pursue Organic Seals of Approval The certification is intended to assure consumers that produce, meats, and other foods that are sold as organic - free of conventional pesticides or fertilizers, antibiotics or growth hormones - are not mixed with nonorganic foods when processed, shipped or stored. Inspectors also check whether storage areas are free of pesticides that might find their way into organic foods.

Reeling in Many a Meal on the East River, and Maybe PCB's In spite of advisories warning against eating fish caught in the East River, more than a few East Harlem residents seem to be eating fish from local waters.

Scots Scientists Raise Hope of Saving Albatross From Extinction The crisis in albatross numbers has been caused by swordfish and tuna fishing fleets' growing use of longline fishing techniques, which use miles of heavily baited, hooked lines. The birds have learned to steal bait off longliners' hooks, and new data shows that around 100,000 swallow the barbs and are drowned every year. Ironically, the move towards lonlining was prompted by environmental concerns.

Is Drug Prohibition a Worthy Enough Goal to Destroy the Amazon?

Pitting Fuel Economy Against Safety Automakers contend that fuel-efficient vehicles are more dangerous. The problem with this argument is that it now has little relationship to the American road.

Saving the Whales, Again The International Whaling Commission has decided to give whale conservation another chance.

Tests Reveal Radioactive Waste in Scottish Salmon Tests have found traces of radioactive waste in Scottish farmed salmon sold in supermarkets.

Ministers 'Ignored' GM Crop Evidence Michael Meacher, who was fired as an environment minister, accused spin doctors and ministers of systematically ignoring or rubbishing the evidence that genetically modified crops could be a health hazard or could harm the environment.

2 PC Makers Given Credit and Blame in Recycling Dell and Hewlett-Packard handle recycling of the waste from computer products in different ways, according to a report by environmentalists.

An Environmental Report Card Christine Whitman's final report as head of the E.P.A. is a compelling arguement for preserving - and broadening where necessary - the reach of environmental law. [- The question is: Who is to decide where it is necessary?]

Radioactive Rabbit Threat at Dounreay The stringent security measures at the Dounreay nuclear complex had taken account of a threat from terrorists but not, apparently, from the local wildlife.

Food Agency Tests Dounreay Rabbits

Greens Launch Anti-GM Crop Bill Companies developing GM crops will be liable for any "contamination" of non-GM produce under legislation proposed by the Scottish Green Party.

Toxic Tale Spiked Did New York Times lawyer George Freeman spike a Times investigation of alleged environmental hazards at a recreational park in Pelham Manor, New York - the affluent village where he lives? [- Scroll down to the second story on the page]

Water: Emergency at Evian From the Earth Summit in Johannesburg to the World Forum on Water in Kyoto, to the G-8 in Evian, the question of water has become one of the central themes in the debate over sustainable development and improvement in living conditions for the global population.

E.P.A. Reintroduces Standards to Control Ozone and Smog Some environmental groups said that the proposals for new standards for air pollution were too lenient.

U.S. Contests Europe's Ban on Some Food The Bush administration filed suit at the World Trade Organization to force Europe to lift its ban on genetically modified food.

Carbon Dioxide 'Makes Deserts Greener' Rising carbon dioxide levels may be helping forests to reclaim the world's deserts, scientists have claimed. The trend could explain why a forest planted on the edge of the Negev desert in Israel 35 years ago is expanding much faster than expected and it could help account for the estimated seven billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that goes missing from the atmosphere each year. Scientists believe vegetation creeping back into arid lands could be soaking up the greenhouse gas.

Trawlers' Deadly Toll of Dolphins Scottish fishing boats trawling off the south-west coast of England have been directly involved in the deaths of up to 7,000 dolphins already this year.

The Price of Progress Oil Execs Muscle U.S.-Backed Pipeline Through Environmental Treasure.

Bush - Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security Clean Air Act polluted by the Justice Department

E.P.A. Backs Stricter Guidelines The Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules that would deeply cut the smog-forming pollution spewing from diesel engines in nonroad equipment. More... (editorial)

Leaving a Mess in Mesopotamia Long-term damage from a short-term war - the bombing of Iraq has left a toxic soup.

U.S. Plans to Limit Protected Wilderness to 23 Million Acres The Interior Department wants to limit Bureau of Land Management lands eligigle for wilderness protection to 23 million acres nationwide.

Outspoken Yellowstone Ranger Loses Job An outspoken Yellowstone National Park ranger who criticized unscrupulous hunters was not rehired this year for the first time in more than 30 years and a government watchdog group wants an investigation.

Great Apes Face Extinction in Next Decade The pressures of logging, commercial hunting and the deadly Ebola virus, could mean our closest genetic relative will cease to exist if urgent action is not taken.

Offsetting Environmental Damage by Planes On a round trip from New York to London, according to calculations of the Edinburgh Center for Carbon Management in Scotland, a Boeing 747 spews out about 440 tons of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. That is about the same amount that 80 S.U.V.'s emit in a full year of hard driving.

Chemical Might Pose Health Risk to Younger Women and Girls An internal Environmental Protection Agency report suggests that a chemical used to produce Teflon might pose health risks for young girls and women of childbearing age.

Japanese Technology May Help Island Reap Pacific's Waters A number of Pacific island nations may use new Japanese technology that can both desalinate seawater for drinking and produce electricity.

Rare Arizona Owl (All 7 Inches of It) Is in Habitat Furor Developers are fighting a proposal to set aside 1.2 million acres around Tucson to protect pygmy owls.

Bush Administration Exempts Oil Industry From Clean Water Act The Bush administration has decided to give the oil and gas industry two years to comply with a storm-water regulation that goes into effect across the country Monday, and will consider granting a permanent exemption.

GM Crops Are 'Not Necessary' Says Meacher, UK Environment Minister "Meacher has told The Ecologist magazine that he worries about the unpredictable consequences of GM technology in the future and has doubts over whether biotechnology companies were telling the truth about their own trials of the crops."

7 States to Sue E.P.A. Over Standards on Air Pollution Seven state attorneys general, all Democrats mostly from the Northeast, are accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to enforce the Clean Air Act.

The Red Rose Whispers of... Did you buy roses for Valentine's Day? If so, where did they come from, and how were they grown?

Weakening of Organic Standard Is Considered "Buried within the $397 billion spending bill passed last night by Congress is a provision that would permit livestock producers to certify and label meat as 'organic' even if the animal had been fed partly or entirely on conventional rather than organic grain."

UK 'Set to Fail' on Green Gas Targets Government advisers were today warning that Britain will fail to meet targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide unless more action is taken.

Lions Develop a Taste for Ecotourists Ecotourist are helping turn lions into man-eaters by making themselves too tempting for the big cats to resist... 'there are a growing number of ecotourist camps that are putting people in the bush right next to lions.'"

As Cities Move to Privatize Water, Atlanta Steps Back "Over the last five years, hundreds of American communities, including Indianapolis, Milwaukeem and Gary, Ind., have hired private companies to manage their waterworks, serving about one in 20 Americans."

U.N. Conference Backs Efforts to Curb Mercury Pollution "Delegates attending a United Nations environmental conference... endorsed a global crackdown on pollution caused by mercury, although the United States blocked efforts for binding restrictions on its use. Mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal, is particularly dangerous for infants and children, and it can be passed from pregnant women to their fetuses. Human exposure to mercury comes from a variety of sources - consumption of fish, occupational and household uses, DENTAL FILLINGS and VACCINES."

U.S. Delays Suing Europe Over Ban on Modified Food With war looming in Iraq, the Bush administration has postponed filing a case against the European Union for its ban on genetically modified food.

Radioactive Dump on Wildlife Refuge Raises Liability Concerns "...the Air Force finished burying thousands of cubic meters of plutonium-contaminated waste in a 25-acre landfill on the atoll. In 2004, the military is to leave the atoll, which was designated a wildlife refuge in 1926, in the care of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service."

Birds Wash Ashore After Belgian Oil Spill "About 3,000 gallons of heavy fuel leaked from the Tricolor... creating an oil slick 2 1/2 miles long and 160 yards wide..."

Yellowstone Bison Thrive, but Success Breeds Peril "The thriving herd - the only free range bison in the country - is already an estimated 1,000 over what the park can bear..."

Judge Blocks Sonar Use to Track Whales "The environmentalists sued to block use of the sonar, saying the government had not done the proper environmental evaluation before issuing... a permit."

U.S. Is Pressuring Industries to Cut Greenhouse Gases "...administation officials are travelling the country collecting written promises from industries to curb emissions of gases linked to global warming."

Greens Are Barking Up the Wrong Tree "...using recycled paper reduces the demand for properly managed, sustainable forests, and could put their entire future at risk. ...they suggest recycling has more to do with corporate PR than saving the Earth."

EU Order Poses Threat to Pearl Mussels "Freshwater pearl mussels are under threat in one of Scotland's premier fishing rivers because of EU restrictions on the use of chemical weedkillers."

Anthrax Vaccine Found on British Beach "Several boxes of anthrax vaccines from the Ministry of Defense were found washed up on a southern British beach Monday, officials said."

Oil and Water Don't Mix in BP Plan A consortium led by BP is planning an oil pipeline that will pass within ten miles of Borjomi springs. Protesters believe an oil spill would cause an "ecological cataclysm."

Vanishing Bananas "Bananas could be extinct in ten years because the world's most popular fruit is unable to fight off disease, scientists have claimed."

Overfishing Hits Shark Numbers "Fishing records showed that populations of several shark species had fallen to less than a quarter of their former size."

Not Building Green is Called a Matter of Economics

NYC to Resume Recycling of Plastics

County Water Board Sues U.S. in Dispute Over Colorado River

U.S. Plan Could Ease Limits on Wetlands Development

Study: Atmospheric Cleanser Not Declining

U.S. Wages Biological War on Columbia

3,000 Turtles Found Dead Off Indian Coast

Rescuers Save Part of Whale Pod in N.Z.

Polar Bear Headed for Extinction, Says University of Alberta Scientist

Man Leaves Large Forest Tract to N.H.

Giant Jellyfish off Japanese Coast in Largest Numbers in Decades - Some as big as Washing Machines, 330 lbs!

Preservation Plan May Save California Land

Dutch Police Arrest Greenpeace Activists

Regulators Announce Plan to Clean River

Judge Urged to Halt Bison Herding Method

Groups Sue EPA Over Off-Road Vehicles

California Report Supports Critics of Water Diversion

Clean Water Enforcement Rules Considered

Study: Antarctic Ice Sheet 'May' Disappear in 7,000 Years

Is Spring Coming Earlier?

Recycling Christmas Trees

Failed Deal in California Cuts Water for Nevada

States Sue E.P.A. Over New Rules

Forest Service OKs Power Line in Forest

Government Survey Confirms GM Crops Contaminate Other Plants

Michigan and Dow Drop Dioxin Pact

Bush Administration Planning to Extend Cuts of Diesel Emmissions

California Expands Chicken Quarantine

Rise in Baby Heart Defects Sparks Concern Over Pollution from Landfills

Southern California Water Officials Race Deadline

New Senate Environment Chairman Opposes Many Protections

Christmas Card Recycling Scheme to Help Pay for Replanting of Forest

Irradiated Christmas Trees Seized

Extinct Bat Found in Hibernation

Ranchers Bristle as Gas Wells Loom on the Range

Persistent Drop in Fertility Reshapes Europe's Future

California Environmentalist to Leave Tree

Federal Judge Rules Los Angeles Violates Clean Water Laws

2 Cities Join Suit to Fight Global Warming

Rockefeller Patriarch Plans Organic Farm

EPA Seeks Faith-Based Grants for Green Causes

Great Barrier Reef is Back in the Pink

Norton Orders Curb on Colorado River Use

Neb., Kan. Settle Suit Over Water Use

Experts Puzzled by Falkland's Sick Penguins

EPA Fines Biotechs for Corn Breaches

Enviromentalists Cheer Rare Victory - Judge Restores Road Building Ban in Federal Forest

Scientists Mull Killing Section of River - In Order to Protect the Environment We Must Destroy It

N. Korea to Reopen Nuclear Plant Over Oil Cutoff

Board Bans Dry Cleaning Chemical

Africans Produce Wildlife 'Miracle'

A Third of the World Faces Water Shortage by 2025

Unlocking the Mystery of Extinction

Oceans, Glaciers Cited for Earth's Gut

Alabama Grandmas on Trial for Informing Public About Frankenfoods

New Pollution Rules Overpower California - US Laws Jeopardize State's Air Standards

Living in Radioactive Dumps

Scientists Get Wind of 'Green Cow' Methane Research

Water Theft

Green Spaces 'Help You Live Longer'

California Air Could Get Dirtier - EPA Relaxes Rules - Senator Calls for Whitman to Resign

EPA Says it Will Change Rules Governing Industrial Pollution

Exxon-Led Group is Giving a Climate Grant to Stanford

Suit Seeks to Block Burning of Chemical Arms

Doctors Demand End of GM Crop Trials

Europe Fears World's Worst Oil Spill

Navy to Limit Sonar Thought to Hurt Sea Mammals

How Dounreay's Nuclear Dream Turned Sour

On Global Warming States Act Locally

US Says EU Stance on Environment Threatens WTO Talks

Record Number of Dolphins Spotted in Firth of Forth

Sunshine Used to Clean Water

Iceland Invents Energy-From-Water Machine

New Clean, Quiet Cars Guzzle Hydrogen

Bats Surviving on a Wing and a Prayer

Executive Urged to Help Wild Salmon Fund

Illegal Medicine Trade Threatens Survival of Bear Species

Ivory Demand Fuels Poaching and Smuggling - Report

Biologist Seeks Whistleblower Status

California Panel Bans Fishing Around a Marine Sanctuary

Panel Faults Environmental Efforts

Franken-Food Touted as Beneficial to the Environment

California Court Upholds Diesel Ban

Got Oil?

FDA Combats Resistance to Antibiotics

Former EPA Official Blasts Bush on Effort to Ease Air Rules

HSBC's New Loan: 2,000 Envirnmentalists

Iceland Joins Whale Panel, Giving Whalers Stronger Say

Study Records Elevated Mercury

The 'Organic' Label: Who Wins at the Bank?

Organic Food Industry Grew Up in a Decade

Young Eagle Returns to N.D. Refuge

Bogus Statistics on Climate Change

Court Affirms Monument Status of Sequoia Preserve

GM Onion Means No More Tears for Cooks

Viagra Success Saves Threatened Wildlife

3000 Saved by Ban on Coal

Group Sues U.S. Forest Service

Judge: Forest Service Violated EPA

New Organic Labeling Hits Shelves

Utah County's Toxic Tradition is Under Threat

An Empty Nest, and Success, for Manhattan Eagle Project

An Environmentalist Who Loves to Eat Whales

On the 30th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act

Plant-Destroying Microbes Probed

Regulators Call on Nature to Fight Pollution

White House Joins Fight Against Electric Cars

'GM Seed Spread' Warning

'Organic' Defined

EPA Completes 42 Superfund Cleanups

Consumer Groups Accuse U.S. of Negligence on Food Safety

Red Deer Under Threat From Japanese Rival

Sound Advice to Help Prevent Whales Dying

Big Cut in Fleet Needed to Save Cod Stocks

Wildlife Group Votes to Oppose Wind Farm

Welsh Police Sniff Out Alternative Fuel Users

Environmentalists Identify New Menace: Discarded Cell Phones

BSE Cases Twice as High as Feared

GM Crops Dumped in England

GM Safety in Doubt After Honey is Tainted

Grassfarming and the Environment

A Natural Choice for Cattle

Research Shows Grassfed Cattle Are Healthier and Better for Your Health

L.A. County Workers Dump Concrete and Glass on Beach

Consumers Challenge Spread of Biotech Food

Toxic Chemicals in Fluoridated Water

Cooking Oil Set to Fuel More Than Stomachs

Norway Sets New Minke Whale Quota

Probe: Substandard Hose Caused Chemical Leak

Rep. Markey Releases Study Showing Big Drop in EPA Policing

Whale Beachings Linked to Navy Sonar Tests

Fish Farms Linked to Decline of Wild Stock

Cameras Installed to Catch Illegal Dumping

Private-Well Owners Float Above Limits

Show Looks at Engineering Projects

U.S. Sees No Tie to Water Plan in Deaths of Fish in California

Report Finds All U.S. Coral Reefs Are Suffering

Lawsuit Protection for Gas Additive? - And More Corporate Welfare for ADM

Healthy Cities Mean Happy Living

Killer Virus Threatens Scottish Seals

Clean Water Found in Short Supply

Navy Researchers Find Cipro Present in Dolphins Off California

Antarctica's Ozone Hole Shrinks

Computer Model Shows Global Warming Will Continue Regardless of Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

'88 Warning Was Rejected at Damaged Nuclear Plant

You Should Have Seen the Air in '53

Calculate 'Your Pollution' of the Environment

Tons o' Trash

Clean and Green at Home

Pest-Free Home Naturally

Pest-Free Yard Naturally

Links related to Evironmental Concerns

Scorecard.org

Environmental Data Interactive Exchange

Environmental News Network

Organic Gardening Magazine

Mother Earth News

Gene Watch - Ethics and Risks of Genetic Engineering

CropGen

Eat Wild: The Clearinghouse for Information About Pasture-Based Farming

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Prairie Learning Center

Planet Ark

Slow Food USA

OrganicConsumers.org

Econews: Environmental War Desk

The Sunshine Project - Research and Facts About Biological Warfare and Biotechnology

FAIR Resources: Environment

Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation