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Slowly, almost imperceptibly, it starts to get hotter. The increase in average temperatures is gradual; what we notice are the scorching spikes, as heat records fall one after another. Winters [...]

Let's say you're in court. The judge walks in; all rise. The opposing attorney approaches the bench and hands his honor a fat wad of bills. The judge stuffs them [...]

It's remarkable how candidly people talk when they forget you're listening. In the February issue of the trade newsletter O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, the public-relations industry frankly assesses the failure [...]

Wise Use cowboys try to rewrite the Constitution. Since frontier days, the business of local government in the rural West has been resource extraction. County governments were--and to a large [...]

Like a mewling babe, the issue of population growth in the United States squalls on the doorstep, increasingly difficult to ignore. After a long period of decline, the U.S. birthrate [...]

'Just between you and me,' World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers wrote to his colleagues late last year, 'shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries [...]

Oysters are hard-core--or, rather, hard-shell--environmentalists, obdurate in their demand for healthy, pollution-free living conditions. They are, in fact, constitutionally incapable of compromise; if bivalves had environmental slogans, theirs would be [...]

It was, perhaps, the data about shrinking penis size that finally got policymakers to seriously consider banning chlorinated chemicals. For the past half century, evidence has been piling up on [...]

Every noble attempt to formulate a rational, environmentally sound transportation policy eventually runs over the same skunk: in most suburban areas and in many cities, nothing seems as cheap and [...]

Teetering above the toxic sludge pits and open sewers of the U S./Mexican border, Bill Clinton faces the trickiest balancing act of his high-wire presidency. Believing it will help the [...]

Sinners, awake! 'We are being deluged by wave after wave of terrible atheistic errors in our schools,' Robert Simonds of Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE) warns the faithful. 'Satan [...]

The Cree Indians of northern Quebec call it nimass aksiwin, 'fish disease': numbness in the extremities, unsteady gait, blurred vision, and slurred speech. In the Great Lakes states, fishing guides [...]

Two years ago, word that the Unocal oil company would pay $700 for any pre-1971 clunker spread across California like a hot tip on the daily double. The idea was [...]

Meeting in a closed room in Geneva last June, three unelected trade experts from Hungary, Switzerland, and Uruguay conspired to kill Flipper. The conclave was a dispute-resolution panel of GATT, [...]

Annoy a dinosaur and it can turn on you. That's what San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network learned after a year of targeting Boise Cascade for 'predatory logging practices' in endangered [...]

While British Columbia's coastal forests gain protection, virgin old-growth in its vast interior is mowed down for the U.S. market. The powerful westerly that blew down from the, icy summits [...]

George Bush and his oil allies are trying to exploit California's energy shortage to drill the Arctic, subsidize oil companies, and allow more air pollution. Are Americans going to buy [...]

Unfettered commerce opens the door to an ecological nightmare Next time you make pancakes, you'd better enjoy that maple syrup, because if Asian long-horned beetles get established in North America, [...]

Among many new terrors revealed last September 11 as the precariousness of our energy system. With worst-case scenarios being surpassed by reality, nuclear power plants and giant hydroelectric dams suddenly [...]

If corporations are persons under the law, what do they dream about? Turns out it's just what we always thought: world domination. They're getting there via an international treaty you [...]

Nothing we do has a greater impact on the world around us than what we choose to eat. We clear rainforests to raise cattle, systematically vacuum up species after species [...]

When people think about toxic water pollution, they imagine a belching pulp mill or drunken oil-tanker captain. Worse offenders, however, are nearer at hand: Uncle Billy fishing out on the [...]

The purpose of the U.S. Circuit Court system is to provide uniform interpretation of federal law for every region of the country. since the nine western state in the Ninth [...]

By the shores of Iceberg Lake in the shadow of the Minarets, I took out the fresh fruit I had hoarded in my pack all week. It was silly to [...]

'Doubtless God could have made a better berry,' 16th-century essayist William Butler said of the strawberry, 'but doubtless God never did.' That has not stopped modern industrial agriculture from trying [...]

There was no question that the guys in the airport lounge were heading for Montana too, what with their cowboy hats, camouflage suits, and camouflage backpacks. (One was even wearing [...]

This spring, just as the issue of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling came up again in Congress, government researchers announced their discovery that the region plays [...]

The article focuses on the bright future of solar power in which institutional investors are willing to finance the panels for homeowners in the U.S. It cites homeowner and computer technician Jonathan Peacock who was able to reduce his electric bill when he installed solar panels in his rooftop. Meanwhile, senior researcher, John Farrell, states that only about 500 California homes had rooftop solar in 1999. It mentions the statewide programs such as Million Solar Roofs and California Solar Initiative provide crucial rebates and incentives. Also, it cites Danny Kennedy, founder of Sungevity, a solar-leasing company that runs operations in eight states, who mentions their low-overhead, highly scalable model. INSET: JOIN THE SOLAR CLUB.

Reports on advertisements from the past demonstrating a lack of awareness for the environment. Viewing of conservation as old-fashioned and unpatriotic during the post-World War II era; Emphasis of people on technology during those years; Emergence of the plastics industry during that era.

The article discusses international trade in coal and its projected growth, showing a map of importing and exporting countries. The World Bank is noted for fostering a part of the coal trade through its financing of coal-fired power plants in India, South Africa, and Botswana. Japan is characterized as the world's biggest importer of coal while Australia is said to be the biggest exporter.

The article offers news briefs worldwide as of November 2014. Topics discussed include the discovery of wild beavers in Devon, England, the Chinese government plan to limit the use of coal as alternative energy by 2020 and the research result on the development of a lithium battery design intend for triple the range of electric cars.

The article discusses the invasion of jellyfish belonging to the species Chironex fleckeri into coastal waters around the world. It is posited that this bloom is caused by the use of nitrogen fertilizers that infiltrate water bodies and create dead zones where only jellyfish can live. Also, polarized reflections from the black surfaces of skyscrapers and asphalt roads are fatally confusing insects and birds.