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- Egypt scraps fertiliser plant at beach resort
- CAIRO AFP — Egypt agreed on Tuesday to halt the construction of a fertiliser plant near a popular beach resort on the Mediterranean coast after months-long protests from residents and environmentalists, the official MENA news agency reported. The Egyptian Supreme Council for Energy decided to "cancel the controversial industrial...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Spirit of Great Bear watches over Canadian rainforest
- VANCOUVER, Canada AFP — Great Bear Rainforest does not appear on any official map, but the name evoking native myths and legends is key to protecting western Canada's bears, whales, eagles and salmon. Once written off as the "mid-coast timber supply area", the sprawling 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 square...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- OUR VIEW
- GREENIE MANTRA: MONEY FOR NOTHIN' Why the elite want to save Mother Earth Safe prediction, and you read it here first: The winner of this year's presidential race will be a multi-millionaire environmentalist. Whichever environmentalist wins won't be personally fazed by...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Environmentalists keeping gas prices high
- What assumptions do congressmen make about the American people? Do they assume that we're dumb or ill-informed about the energy problems we are experiencing? Every time there has been a huge spike in gasoline prices, Congress hauls oil company executives before their committees to accuse them of greed,...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- California land deal reached
- LEBEC, Calif. -- A group of environmentalists and the owners of a large stretch of wilderness have reached a deal that would set aside the largest parcel of land for conservation in California history. After years of legal tussles, conservationists including the Sierra Club have agreed not to...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- Paper giant illegally clearing Indonesian forests: environmentalists
- JAKARTA AFP — Rare elephants, tigers and orangutans are under threat from illegal land clearing on Indonesia's Sumatra island by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper companies, environmentalists said Tuesday. Regional giant Asia Pulp and Paper APP and affiliates are clearing land and building an access road outside...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972
- Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972. By Paul Charles Milazzo. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95. While most accounts take it for granted that the mass environmental movement of the late 1960s drove the creation of the modern...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- First lady, first environmentalist
- When she became first lady after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson felt as if she were "on stage for a part I never rehearsed," she wrote in A White House Diary, her best-selling memoir. She seized the opportunity to launch a...
- Research articles 2007-12-27
- EU cuts cod fishing in Atlantic
- BRUSSELS AFP — EU fisheries ministers netted a deal in the early hours of Wednesday to reduce fishing quotas next year although environmentalists warned that the cuts did not go far enough to save stocks. In marathon talks in Brussels, the ministers agreed to cut cod quotas by between...
- Research articles 2007-12-19
- Fears in US that Canada mining threatens pristine nature park
- VANCOUVER, Canada AFP — Two ambitious energy exploration projects in western Canada are raising fears among US environmentalists of irreversible ecological damage to a pristine expanse of the famed Rocky Mountains. The rugged northwestern US state of Montana is hoping to convince the Canadian province of British Columbia to...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Environmentalists lose a whale in Brazil's Amazon jungle
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Environmentalists have lost track of a five-meter (27-foot) Minke whale that they had freed from a mudflat where it got stuck in the Amazon jungle's Tapajos River, 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil's Environment and Renewable Natural Resources Institute Ibama said...
- Research articles 2007-11-17
- Green protesters scuffle with Uruguay police
- BUENOS AIRES AFP — Uruguayan police scuffled with Argentine environmentalists who were on a boat to protest a Finnish paper mill they fear will spew pollution into a border river, protesters said. Police boarded one of 20 boats being used by protesters on the Uruguay River in front of...
- Research articles 2007-10-27
- Green groups turn up pressure ahead of French summit
- PARIS AFP — Global environmental campaigners converge on the French capital this week for a two-day summit aimed at kick-starting a green revolution in Europe's third-biggest economy. Two weeks after the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to former US vice president Al Gore for his crusade against climate...
- Research articles 2007-10-23
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmentalist, will speak on "Crimes Against Nature" at the inaugural Farris Lecture at the University of Central Arkansas at Conway on Sept. 19
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmentalist, will speak on "Crimes Against Nature" at the inaugural Farris Lecture at the University of Central Arkansas at Conway on Sept. 19. The event, which will be free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- Letters
- WORDS TO LIVE BY Students could benefit from gift of Constitution About 70 years ago, when I was 10, I was handed a small bound copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence by an aged friend of the family....
- Research articles 2007-08-24
- Russian energy project threatens whales: campaigners
- MOSCOW AFP — Environmental campaigners warned on Wednesday that noise from an offshore energy project in far eastern Russia led by state-controlled gas giant Gazprom was threatening endangered whales. "Ecological organisations have been warning for a long time of the critical danger of sound levels close to oil and...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- DiCaprio bites back over eco 'hypocrisy'
- CANNES, France AFP — Leonardo DiCaprio hit back at charges of hypocrisy Saturday as he unveiled an eco-documentary he wrote, produced and narrated at the Cannes film festival. Asked after the premiere of "The 11th Hour" whether he had taken a fuel-guzzling jet on his way to the French...
- Research articles 2007-05-19
- Ted Danson
- Actor and environmentalist Ted Danson's first starring role was on the basketball team at Connecticut's Kent School in 1961, before his interest in acting emerged while attending Stanford University. From his 1979 film debut in Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field to his role as the cool Casanova Sam Malone in...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Eco-Terrorism: When Violence Becomes an Environmentalist Tactic
- (ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes text stops here in original.) It was Sept. 19, 2001, little more than a week after September 11. A deeply wounded nation was in shock and on high alert. Fearful of follow-up al Qaeda attacks, public officials rushed to secure from terrorist threats any buildings or...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- Hot spots in debate on climate change.
- Byline: Mathew Murphy Apr 02, 2007 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce & Industry has conducted its first forum on the business impacts of climate change. The 2 April 2007 seminar had speakers with a broad range...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
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