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By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The US is to establish what it calls “the largest area of protected sea in the world” around its Pacific islands. Commercial fishing and mining will be banned in the protected zones which include the Marianas Trench, the deepest area of ocean on the planet. By SUSAN GALLAGHER, Associated Press Writer HELENA, Mont. – The nation’s largest owner of timberland disclosed Monday that it will no longer pursue changes in agreements governing its use of U.S. Forest Service roads — changes that critics complained could transform forests into housing subdivisions. By BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – A conservation group filed a federal lawsuit Monday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the law and clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay, citing 25 years of failure to restore the nation’s largest estuary. Bruce Sterling and company are doing their yearly “state of the world” ruminations over on The Well. They’re covering an lot of ground (financial crisis first and all that), but this is the quote that got me… When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It [...] |
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