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IATP and allies responded to a call for input by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food on Concentration of ...
February 28, 2000 / By SCOTT KILMAN, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MANCHESTER, Iowa -- For most of his 60 years, Francis Childs tended a farm here in obscurity. But this winter, his fellow ...
Any effort to address the ethical questions outlined in this paper will involve two institutional stages: 1) hearings by a Parliamentary committee given a mandate specifically to examine the ethical ...
The 2000 fire season saw 8.4 million acres of public land burned in the US, with a total firefighting cost of over $1.3 billion. This got the attention of former President Clinton, who asked staff to ...
Genes from a genetically engineered grass travel much farther than previously measured and can spread biotech traits to related plants at least 13 miles away, according to a study made public this ...
NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...
The Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida is crisscrossed with so many illegal swamp-buggy ruts - more than 23,000 miles of them - that park officials in August began limiting off-road vehicles to ...
The Sierra Club is claiming a major victory after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored a suit that environmental groups filed to require the Forest Service to study effects of proposed ...
"Lumber is a commodity with no branding," said Lewis Buchner, a former cabinet-maker and longtime environmentalist who has been CEO of EcoTimber since 2003. "The problem is, you have five truckloads ...