The paperless office does appear to still be a distant dream. A recent University of California-Berkeley study found that, worldwide, the amount of printed matter generated between 1999 and 2002 not only did not decrease
Large marine vessels such as container ships and oil tankers are among the least-regulated sources of air pollution in the United States. Though they are more fuel-efficient than other forms of commercial transportation
Last week an international treaty mandating the phase-out of a dozen highly toxic chemicals, including DDT and PCBs, took effect with 50 signatories despite lack of formal involvement by the United States.
Overturning its six-year old ban on genetically engineered foods, the European Union (EU) last week changed course and approved the import of an insect-resistant strain of corn developed by Swiss company Syngenta.
In an effort to reform logging practices in Canada’s 1.4 billion acre boreal forest, environmentalists are asking consumer products manufacturers and retailers to buy only wood, pulp and paper from logging companies certified as sustainable extractors.
In a curious turn of political events, President Bush has been lambasting Democrats for playing politics over oil. The issue in question is whether or not to open America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help offset skyrocketing prices at the gas pump for consumers.
Word leaked out last week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ready to submit a formal proposal to take grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park off the endangered species list next year. According to agency officials, recovery efforts for Yellowstone’s grizzlies, which began in earnest in the 1980s, are now complete, with the population having doubled in the last two decades.
As the 2004 campaign heats up, Theresa Heinz Kerry, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, is becoming overtly critical of the Bush administration’s environmental policies.
James Lovelock, the renowned British scientist who first postulated in his Gaia theory that Earth itself is a single living organism, has come out strongly in favor of a massive expansion of nuclear power throughout the world as a salvo against impending global warming.
Last week, Judge Adalberto Jordan of Miami’s U.S. District Court cited insufficient evidence as the reason for throwing out charges that Greenpeace violated an obscure 1872 maritime law when its activists boarded a ship transporting illegally exported mahogany from Brazil in April 2002. The activists intended to hang a banner from the ship reading: "President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging."
