| Election 2000 -- vote on March 7 | ||
| Rhetoric vs. Reality | ||
| Poll-driven political marketing doesn't always match a candidate's record. | ||
| League announces endorsements | ||
| League of Conservation Voters endorsements for the March 7 primary election. | ||
| Local Ecology | ||
| Nuclear carrier accident calls into question Navy's willingness to notify the public | ||
| Navy steadfastly refuses to inform the public about "events" involving nuclear reactors. | ||
| Uncommon sense | ||
| It will take a new vision to solve our transportation problems, and the proposed Regional Transportation Plan is just more of the same. | ||
| Human-Powered Film Tour comes to San Diego | ||
| Feb 15 - see the new Toyota Prius electric/gas combo car. | ||
| Water markets satisfy cities' thirst and protect farms | ||
| New plan to satisfy our cities' thirst while protecting agriculture in California. | ||
| The California Materials Exchange: a waste prevention tool you can't do without | ||
| National Issues | ||
| Sierra Club looks with hope to new century | ||
| A look back at the 20th century, and new goals for the 21st. | ||
| US can still meet emissions target on time, with big savings | ||
| Global Ecology | ||
| Scripps scientists pinpoint new, major source of atmospheric methyl bromide | ||
| Salt marshes surprisingly represent 10 percent of the world's methyl bromide production. | ||
| Spaceborne laser instruments to revolutionize understanding of global change | ||
| New technology will provide a new look at how clouds and dust particles contribute to global climate change. | ||
| Transgenic fish could threaten wild populations | ||
| Genetically engineered critter can process toxins in high radiation environments. | ||
| Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO | ||
| Toxics & Pollution | ||
| Superbug for digesting atomic waste | ||
| This domestic pest is good at digesting petroleum contamination. | ||
| New energy-efficient Chinese refrigerator will have global impact | ||
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Researchers have developed a bacterial strain of Deinococcus radiodurans that can detoxify both mercury and toluene at nuclear waste sites. |
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Voluntary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions have almost tripled since 1994 |
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Research suggests widely used models may under predict pollution |
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| Take the clean car pledge | ||
| In Your Garden | ||
| It's time for seed catalogs and wishful thinking | ||
| Observations from the Edge | ||
| Giving up the Ghost almost | ||