AltWeeklies Wire
Business Over Biologynew
Recent survey results found for every five Fish And Wildlife Service scientists, at least one has been directed to exclude or alter information from a USFWS document. Critics say pro-business power has run amok at the agency.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
03-10-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Victoria's Secret Shame Exposednew
Victoria's Secret, the lingerie chain famous for its scantily clad models, received some unwanted exposure recently when environmental groups took out a full-page ad in the New York Times accusing the company of destroying Canada's boreal forests.
NOW Magazine |
Christen Smith |
02-18-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Tweaking and Twisting of an Atlanta Air Pollution Studynew
Carbon, which is emitted by automobiles, was the only pollutant mentioned in a recently revealed study of Atlanta's air. There was no mention of the link between lung ailments and sulfur pollutants, which are emitted by coal-burning power plants - such as those run by Georgia Power.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
02-03-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Botanists Set Out to Chronicle Our Biological Heritagenew
From the command center of Missouri Botanical Garden, brigades of taxonomists are fanning out to identify all the continent's plants, past and present. Their results will be recorded in the 30-volume Flora of North America encyclopedia.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-01-2005 |
Science
Bringing Down a Damnew
It was 1923 when engineers flooded Yosemite's magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley. If building the O'Shaughnessy Dam can be seen as a glorious accomplishment of the 20th century, would tearing it down be a worthy testament to the 21st?
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
01-24-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Colorado Cash Flownew
Draining the Colorado River Delta costs billions of dollars each year in lost services and habitat for fish.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
01-20-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
I Will Live Greener in 2005new
For those whose New Year's resolution is to leave a lighter footprint on Mother Earth, here are five steps to advance your personal eco-revolution.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
01-07-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Democrats Should Establish Urban Real Estate Cartelnew
The Democratic Party needs to wrap the greenest of its Utopians together with its fiercest capitalists in a strategy to protect the environment, house the homeless, and uplift the values of racial and cultural tolerance.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-21-2004 |
Commentary
Chain Reactionnew
Free the economy by breaking the addiction to namebland stores.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
12-21-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Dioxin in All of Usnew
Ecologists should make the poisoned Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko their marytr.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
12-21-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Beaten Pathsnew
Illegal immigration and smuggling is tearing apart the landscape of Southern Arizona causing environmental havoc. The Bureau of Land Management claims it's a little bit of a losing battle. As soon as one area is picked up, another area needs to be worked on.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
12-10-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Environmental Emergencynew
With the most closed or abandoned mines in the nation, Arizona faces an environmental crisis. Polluted river headwaters and groundwater cause activists to fear what will happen to the water table.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
12-03-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Cumberland Island Will Be Open to Autosnew
Until recently, the north end of Georgia's Cumberland Island was one of the more remote places in the Southeast. Most people could reach it only by foot. Now automobiles will be widely allowed on previously protected parts of the island, due to the work of U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
12-02-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Reawakeningnew
Central Illinois is the site of one of the nation's most ambitious floodplain restoration projects. The Nature Conservancy has assembled a 7,000-acre preserve called Emiquon where two lakes were drained
80 years ago for agriculture.
Illinois Times |
Jeanne Townsend Handy |
11-30-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Arizona's Fossil Creek to Be Revivednew
Nearly 90 percent of Arizona's native riparian stream systems have been lost, and more than half of its native fish species are endangered. But business leaders and environmentalists are working together to restore Fossil Creek.
Phoenix New Times |
John Dougherty |
11-09-2004 |
Environment
