Undercover police officer unlawfully spied on climate activists, judges rule
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Yellowstone Oil Spill Reveals Gaps In Pipeline Oversight
By MATTHEW BROWN and GARANCE BURKE Three weeks after a broken Exxon Mobil pipeline spilled 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River, federal officials remain unsure how many pipelines carrying hazardous ...
Heat Wave 2011: Hot ‘Dome’ Traps Much Of U.S. In Pressure Cooker
By TAMMY WEBBER For millions of people enduring this week's extreme heat and humidity, it feels like they're living in a pressure cooker. And in a sense, they are. Much of the United States is trapp...
U.S. May Impose Sanctions Against Iceland For Whaling
By DAVID Mac DOUGALL The United States is set to announce possible trade and diplomatic sanctions against Iceland for ramping up its whale hunts despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling. U.S....
Banned in the UK: Animal Testing for Household Products
By lindastcyr Animal testing goes on all over the world. It is a sad fact that many are trying to eradicate. In Britian, the use of animal testing for cosmetics has been banned since 2008 and now in 2011 the co...
American Airlines Stops Flying Primates for Research Labs
By Jennifer Mishler American Airlines reports that they will no longer fly primates being sent to research labs! The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has stated that the airline changed i...
Bald Eagle Saved By Oregon Vet’s Mouth-to-beak CPR
A Bend, Ore., veterinarian has performed life-saving CPR on an injured bald eagle that was under anesthesia during physical therapy. KTVZ-TV reports Jeff Cooney performed the therapy, during which the bald eag...
New Weed Killer May Kill Trees, Too
By Dan Shapley Dupont's new herbicide, Imprelis, is considered prime suspect in the death of green living things. That shouldn't be a surprise, given that it's designed and marketed to kill lawn ...
Whaling meeting ‘ignores needs of whales’
The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting has closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. (more…)...
Global Warming: Nature Can’t Save Us From Ourselves
By Tom Zeller Jr. The notion that nature itself will act as a check on the atmospheric excesses of humanity has long held a fair amount of appeal, not least because it draws on a nugget of high-school science t...