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2003 - 2008

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2008

• Digging For Dollars: Mining-equipment maker Joy Global has thrived during the commodities boom. How will it fare in a slowdown? - Fortune 28mar2008

• Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America - Global Research 25mar2008
• New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears: Spread of Prosperity Brings Supply Woes - Wall Street Journal 24mar2008
• Global Shortage of Metals Looming: Increasingly, Past Environmental Degradation to Blame - Financial Post 25feb2008
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Biodiversity 'Doomsday Vault' Comes to Life in Arctic - Agence France Presse 24feb2008
• Low Oxygen: Scientists Fear 'Tipping Point' in Pacific Ocean: Coast Has Seen Deadly Drop-off in Oxygen Levels for Sea Life - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 15feb2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008

2007

• Plastic Trash in the Ocean as Far as One Can See: Feds Want to Survey, Possibly Clean Up Vast Garbage Pit in Pacific - San Francisco Chronicle 30oct2007
• The Almond and the Bee: A global biological process begins with Joe Traynor - San Francisco Chronicle 14oct2007
• The 10 Most Polluted Places on Earth - Time Magazine 12sep2007
• Honeybees: Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus Is Seen as Suspect in Death of Honeybees - New York Times 7sep2007
• Maxxam Corp./Pacific Lumber: FDIC Asks Appeals Court to Drop $72.3 Million Fine Against Charles Hurwitz - San Francisco Chronicle 8aug2007
• Are Bees Too Busy? Could factory bee farming be behind the sudden decline in US populations? - East Bay Express 1aug2007
• Astronaut Tosses Junk From Space Station - AP 23jul2007
• Interior Department: U.S. Agency May Reverse 8 Decisions on Wildlife - New York Times 21jul2007
• Hikers Swarming Yosemite's Half Dome Create a Dangerous Bottleneck - San Francisco Chronicle 7jul2007
• The Silence of the Bees - High Country News High Country News 19mar2007
• Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees? - The Independent (UK) 30apr2007
• Uganda PM Approves Clearing of Rainforest for Sugarcane Plantation - Reuters 21mar2007
• Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan / New York Times 28jan2007
• Organic Erosion: Will the term organic still mean anything when it's adopted whole hog by behemoths such as Wal-Mart? - San Francisco Chronicle 28jan2007
• Green Rage - Matt Rasmussen / Orion 1jan07

2006 

• 6.7 Quake Damages Undersea Cables, Disrupting Internet Service in Asia - Wall Street Journal 27dec2006
• Farms May Cut Habitat Renewal Over E. Coli Fears - San Francisco Chronicle 19dec2006
• Taxpayers Fund Wildlife Eradication at Behest of Ranchers -  The New Standard 17may2006
• Christine Todd Whitman: Former EPA Director Advocates Balancing Environment, Business - The Arizona Republic 14apr2006
• Anthropocene: In Epoch of Man, Earth Takes a Beating: 'Field Notes From a Catastrophe' - Book Review / New York Times 16mar2006
• Bush Sells Off America - Details $1B Land Sales - AP 10feb2006

2005

• Polar Bears Drown as Ice Shelf Melts -  The Times (UK) 18dec2005
• Victoria's Secret Mails More Than 1 Million Catalogs Each Day -  Time 11dec2005
• Human Health Threat From Ecosystem Degradation: Threats particularly acute in poorer countries - WHO 9dec2005
• ALF/ELF: 6 Arrested Years After Ecoterrorist Acts - New York Times 9dec2005
• Taipei 101: Skyscraper That May Cause Earthquakes: World's tallest building may have reopened fault - The Guardian (UK) 2dec2005
• Wild Turkeys Attack Humans in Suburbia: Toms, Seeing People as Low In Pecking Order, Commit Fowl Play With Spurs - Wall Street Journal 23nov2005
• Bill Authorizes Private Purchase of Federal Land -  New York Times 20nov2005
  • For Sale Cheap: 270 Million Acres of National Forest and Public Land - Los Angeles Times 18nov2005
  • Bill Would Sell Land Promised to D.C. - Washington Post 10nov2005

• Warming Threatens Ocean Wildlife -  The Guardian (UK) 19oct2005

• The Cost of Gold -- 30 Tons an Ounce: Behind Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions -  New York Times 24oct2005

• ANWR: The Last Refuge: Caribou Migration, Drilling Plan Symbolic of Battle Between Oil and Environment - San Francisco Chronicle 28aug2005

• Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared - Washington Post 24aug2005

• US Scientists Call For Giant Wildlife Park To Save World's Great Mammals - Agence France-Presse 17aug2005

• Oil and Gas Development: Increased Permitting Activity Has Lessened BLM’s Ability to Meet Its Environmental Protection Responsibilities - GAO-05-418 17jun2005

• The People of the State of California Vs. The Pacific Lumber Company Scotia Pacific Holding Company, and Salmon Creek Corporation - Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Humboldt Case No. DR030070 Filed 14jun2005

• Effects of forest harvesting and woody debris removal on two Northland streams, New Zealand - Baillie et al / New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1mar2005

• Pepper Spray Eight Win in Court: Humboldt Co Sheriff's Deputies & Eureka Police Liable for Excessive Force in Violation of 4th Amendment - Press Release 29apr2005

• How To Buy A Private Island . . . for less than you might think - Lands' End Catalog 15apr2005

• Earth To Humankind: Back Off - Say good-bye to your car, computer, everything. We are burning up the planet too fast to hang on -  SF Chronicle 13apr2005

• U.N. Study: Earth's Health Deteriorating - AP 31mar2005

• Willie Fontenot Action Alert: Four Key Pieces of Information About Longtime Environmental Advocate Willie Fontenot Being Forced Out Of His Job 11apr2005

• Want to Save the Planet? Then Make Me Your Not So Benevolent Dictator -  The Times (UK) 9apr2005

• Willie Fontenot: Activists' Ally Snared in Security Net: Students' Photos of Refinery Cost Man his State Job - The Times-Picayune 5apr2005

• Two-Thirds of World's Resources 'Used Up' -  The Guardian (UK) 30mar2005

• Jeff 'Free' Luers' Keynote Speech At ELAW Conference 6mar2005

• Transgenic Poplars Could Make China a Big Player in Lumber: But some experts worry about effects on nature - Christian Science Monitor 10mar2005

• Bushmeat on the Menu: Untangling the Influences of Hunger, Wealth, and International Commerce - Science News 26feb2005

• Return to Eden: Lands Ravaged by Years of War Can be Returned to Plenty, But it Takes More Than Cash and Fertiliser - New Scientist 22jan2005

• Tsunami-Hit Nations Look To Save Mangroves -  Reuters 17jan2005

• Conservation Easements Keep Farm and Ranchlands, Vacation Hideaways in the Hands of Families and Away from the Paving Contractor - SF Chronicle 6feb2005

• Dramatic Change in West Antarctic Ice Could Produce 16ft Rise in Sea Levels -  The Independent (UK) 2feb2005

2004

• Tsunami: Knowledge of Natural World Saves Primitive Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands From Tsunami - The Hindu (India) 5jan04

• Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb: Arctic Clathrates Contain 3,000 Times More Methane Than in Atmosphere -  Baltimore Sun 16dec04

• A Day in the Life of Joe & Josephine Republican - Email 27oct04

• Tom and Jane Dustin: Founders of Indiana's Environmental Movement - Monitor 25oct04

• Global Warming: Nature's Pressure Points -  The Guardian Weekly (UK)  22oct04

• Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, Vegetables - National Geographic News 5oct04

• Grizzly Bears Face Life in Prison or Execution -  SF Chronicle Staff Writer 3oct04

• Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development - Gray / PLoS 14sep04

• 9th Circuit Ruling Buttresses Spotted Owl Protection - Eureka Times-Standard 7aug04

• Kolkata (Calcutta): Wonders of the Waste Land -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 6aug04

• Global Warming Hits UK Birds -  The Independent (UK) 30jul04

• Weird Worms Munch On Dead Whales -  Australian Broadcast Corporation 30jul04

• A Giant Ecosystem That Has Functioned For Millions Of Years Has Begun To Break Down -  The Independent (UK) 30jul04

• North Sea Birds Dying as Waters Heat Up: Scientists warn that warmer conditions could have a catastrophic effect on east coast ecosystem -  The Guardian (UK) 20jun04

• Weyerhaeuser Selling Lots of Former Industrial Timberlands: Homes for Sale: Wooded Lots, Great Views, Logging Optional - Wall Street Journal 16jun04

• National Parks Fast Falling into Disrepair: From aging facilities to overgrown trails, reaching the backcountry is getting harder -  Christian Science Monitor 25may04

• Ancient Trees Pit Activists, Loggers: Protesters in Tasmania are living atop the world's tallest hardwoods, now being felled for cardboard -  LA Times 18apr04

• Hatchery Salmon to Count as Wildlife -  Washington Post 29apr04

• N.J. Seeks 'Lost-Use' Damages: Polluting firms are told to pay for resources once usable, even if nobody wanted to use them -  Philadelphia Inquirer 11apr04

• Transgenic Trees Spread Mercury Poisoning - Professor Joe Cummins  / Synthesis/Regeneration 5apr04

• Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 16mar04

• Urgent Warning From Ecuador: The Nature Conservancy Plots With US Embassy and USAID  - Accion Ecologica (Ecuador) 4mar04

• Afghanistan: Geothermal Energy in Afghanistan: Prospects and Potential - Daud Saba et al 1feb04

• Lynn Margulis: Full Speed Ahead -  University of Chicago Magazine 1feb04

• Strip Mines: Rule Change May Alter Strip-Mine Fight  - NY Times 26jan04

• Coalbed Methane: Following busy year, Wyoming tries to cope with coalbed growing pains - The Billings Gazette 7jan04

2003

• Barbra Streisand’s Lawsuit to Silence Coastal Website Dismissed - Press Release / California Coastal Records Project 3dec03

• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03

• Our Last Wild Meal - Jeremy Brown / Bellingham Weekly 13nov03

• Jack Spadaro: Mine Safety Official Critical of Policies Faces Firing -  NY Times 9nov03

• GM Pine Trees in Disease Probe New Zealand -  Herald (New Zealand) 6nov03

• Coalbed Methane: Wyoming Checks Mines for West Nile Source - NY Times 28oct03

• ChevronTexaco: Oil Giant in Dock Over Amazon Waste: Clean up our polluted forest, Ecuadoreans demand in landmark suit -  The Guardian 25oct03

• How America is Ravaging the Planet: Road to Ruin -  The Guardian Weekly (UK) 24oct03

• ChevronTexaco: Eucadorian Indians Following "Historic" Texaco Trial Closely - EFE (Spain) 24oct03

• Decline in Oceans' Phytoplankton Alarms Scientists: Possibly Linked to Warming Seas -  SF Chronicle 6oct03

• White House Panel Recommends Easing Regulations for Developers -  AP 24sep03

• Miscalculation Could Mean End of Beluga Sturgeon Caviar - New Scientist 17sep03

• Charity Ryerson: Going to Jail for the Cause Part II -  The Bloomington Alternative 14sep03

• 2 Tree-Sitters Staving Off Ax at Wachusett, Massachusetts - Boston Globe 10sep03

• ELF: FBI Seeking 2 Men In $2.5M Arson Spree Against Calif SUVs - AP 23aug03

• ELF Destroys Dozens of SUVs in Series of Attacks in California - LA Times & ELF Press Release 23aug03

• The Everglades FL: The Sway of Cattails and Politics -  LA Times 22aug03

• Bush Choice to Head E.P.A. Asks Clinton Administrator for Reference -  NY Times 13aug03

• States Tie Their Own Hands with "No More Stringent" Laws - SERC 12aug03

• Coalbed Methane: Dead Sage Grouse Tested Positive for West Nile: Endangered Species Act may be sought - AP 11aug03

• Federal Land Managers Ordered to Ease Limits on Gas and Oil by Bush - AP 9aug03

• In Utah, a Public-Land Fight on an Epic Scale  - The Christian Science Monitor 7aug03

• Activists See More Violence from Extreme Protesters -  SF Chronicle 6sep03

• ELF:  Firebrands of 'Ecoterrorism' Set Sights on Urban Sprawl  - The Christian Science Monitor 6aug03

• World Officials Agree to Share Ecology Data  - NY Times 1aug03

• Ex-Interior Chiefs Condemn Plan to Privatize Park Service Jobs  - LA Times 30jul03

• 'Rainforests of the Sea' Ravaged: Overfishing and Pollution Kill 80% of Coral on Caribbean Reefs -  The Independent (UK) 18jul03

• Poisoning the Polar Bear: Humans Leave Toxic Footprint in Remote Area - Los Angeles Times 5jul03

• 77 Tons of DU used at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge: A Deceptively Pretty Place -  Bloomington Alternative (Indiana) 22jun03

• Fungi and Humans: How All Species Are Related Grows More Precise, Complex  - Wall Street Journal 13jun03

• Desertification is Both a Cause and a Consequence of Poverty - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan / Press Release 12jun03

• Nature Conservancy Accused of Drilling for Gas Under Breeding Ground of Endangered Bird - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 5jun03

• ELF Strikes Twice in 48 Hours Against Urban Sprawl: California and Michigan -  Earth Liberation Front & AP 4jun03

• The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization - Harper's Magazine Jun03

• Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP  - E Magazine 5may03

• How the Bush Administration Uses the Judicial System to Weaken Environmental Protections (Executive Summary) - Defenders of Wildlife 2ma03

• The War May Entail Ecological Disaster in the World  - Deutsche Welle (Germany) 22mar03

• Pacific Lumber Goes After Remedy's Home Tree Jerry and Other Tree-Sitters  - Earth First!/Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters 20mar03

• Tailspinning Bird Populations Highlight Biodiversity Crisis -  Worldwatch Institute Press Release 13mar03

• Bush Forest Plan: Cut Down the Forest to Save It  - SF Chronicle 7mar03

• Hundreds of Yellowstone Bison Killed for Roaming - ENS 6mar03

• Alaskan Native Activists Take a Firm Stand Against Oil and Gas, Launching a New Alliance - Drillbits & Tailings v.8, n.2, 28feb03

• U'wa Demand Immediate Withdrawal of Ecopetrol From Our Sacred Land - Drillbits & Tailings v.8, n.2, 28feb03

• Afghanistan: War Has Ruined Afghan Environment -  BBC News 29jan2003

• Humboldt County sues Pacific Lumber over Fraud  - AP 26feb03

• American Indian Jailed for Feeding Deer - AP 13feb03

• Afghanistan: UNEP Report Chronicles Environmental Damage Of The Afghanistan Conflict - UNEP Press Release 29jan03

• National Park Service Privatization: 70% of Jobs in Park Service Marked Ripe for Privatizing  - LA Times 26jan03

• Rules on Environment Concern Pentagon: Military Says Laws Inhibit Training  - Washington Post 13jan02

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• The Skeptical Environmentalist Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty - Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03

• George Bush's War on Nature  - Salon 6jan03

• ELF Torches SUVs in Erie, Pennsylvania - ELF Press Release 2jan03

• Map of Strip-Mined Areas of S.W. Indiana Source: Indiana Geologic Survey Misc. Map 15 as of 1980

• Highlights of the OECD Environmental Outlook - Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) 2001