A proposal to shift a $500 million Forest Service fund reserve from firefighting to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts might not be a complete catastrophe.
But the prudence of moving money from one natural disaster to another depends completely on the whim of Mother Nature.
Greenpeace International campaigners scaled the anchor chains and ropes on the side of the ship and positioned small boats around the vessel to prevent it leaving the mill in northwest Finland.
"It's a crime that thousand-year-old ancient forests end up as glossy magazines on coffee tables across Europe," activist Matti Liimatainen said.
Under a damp awning of yellowing bigleaf maples, Judith Starbuck is laying waste to a patch of English ivy. A vine at a time, she rips and tugs at the menace creeping through Madrona Woods.
Starbuck and a small band of mud-stained volunteers are reclaiming these woods, saving native trees and shrubs from the stranglehold of fast-growing foreign invaders.
The economic benefits of protecting a rainforest reserve outweigh the costs of preserving it, says University of Alberta research--the first of its kind to have conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the conservation of species diversity.
Bowater Inc.'s decision to sell about 100,000 acres of timberland on the Cumberland Plateau could open up large chunks of Middle Tennessee property for development and damage the region's biologically diverse forests, according to environmental groups.
As we draw to the close of what he calls "the most perilous year," former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has a message to Americans who value parks, forests and clean water: This, too, shall pass.
More than 8.2 million acres of state and federal lands were scorched across the country during the 2005 wildfire season, the most since the record year of 2000 and nearly double an average fire year.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it would propose regulations by the end of the year to limit people's exposures to lead paint during home remodeling.
EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock told Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in a letter that EPA staff are working diligently to propose a regulation by Dec. 30.
