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I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sand Witches		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sand Witches Growing demand for concrete and asphalt in southern California in the last three years is scarring Baja California's once-sandy riverbeds. As much as 2 million tons of sand are being excavated, both legally and illegally, each year from Baja and then sent north to help with construction projects in the U.S. Eroding riverbanks, flooding, and the destruction of important wildlife habitat are le ...
Topics: Mexico, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Trick or Treaty		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Trick or Treaty Ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, controversy continues over the environmental consequences of increased trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Some experts who bitterly opposed NAFTA at the start now feel that the treaty has led to some improvements in quality of life in U.S. border areas -- but they sa ...
Topics: business, globalization, Mexico, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Come on In, the Water's Fine		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Come on In, the Water's Fine Ecologists and sport-fishing fans have succeeded in blocking a decree by the Mexican government that would have increased commercial shark fishing and threatened other fish stocks. Mexico currently requires shark vessels to stay 50 miles offshore; the new rule would have allowed them to come within a half-mile of the coast, dragging mile-wide nets and six-mile ...
Topics: Mexico, outdoor recreation, politics, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Turtle Power Threatened sea turtles find allies in Baja	Deborah Knight	03 Oct 2002	Main Dish
To be an endangered sea turtle near Punta Abreojos on Mexico's Baja Peninsula is to be a lucky animal. In this remote fishing village, the local fishing cooperative cracks down on any member caught with a turtle. For the first offense, you lose fishing privileges for three months, and must instead don a hairnet and mask and work in the seafood processing plant. The second offense gets you kicked out of the coop ...
Topics: green living, marine life, Mexico (all these topics)

El Smog		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
El Smog Mexico City declared its first pollution alert in almost three years yesterday, when ozone levels in the famously smoggy city reached about 250 percent of acceptable levels. The alert resulted in some 350,000 cars being ordered off the city streets. That's a lot, but it's far fewer than the nearly half of the city's estimated 3 million vehicles that were forced off the streets by such alerts before many residents upgraded to n ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico (all these topics)

Borderline Insane		17 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Borderline Insane Two new power plants being built just south of the U.S. border will generate billions of watts of electricity for Californians, a handful of jobs for Mexicans, and plenty of pollution for everyone. The plants, which are the first to be built in Mexico specifically to provide power to the U.S., mark a new era in the relationship between the two nations. Some hail th ...
Topics: California, Department of Energy, Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hurricane Hugo		06 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hurricane Hugo If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has his way, some developing nations will create an OPEC-like cartel to protect plants and animals from exploitation by the industrialized world. Speaking earlier this week at the close of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Chavez said, "If these [developed] countries carry off a medical formul ...
Topics: Brazil, business, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Flaming-goes		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flaming-goes They're thriving as campy lawn statues across America, but in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, the Caribbean flamingo is flirting with extinction -- again. In the 1950s, the region's flamingo population, Mesoamerica's lone flamingo colony, dwindled to a mere 5,000 birds. But the population recovered in the sanctuary of the 200-square-mile Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, increasing to more than 30,000 birds. Now, though, the fl ...
Topics: Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Prawn But Not Forgotten On the Mexican coast, little shrimp are causing big trouble	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Jul 2002	Main Dish
Just above the high-tide mark on the coast of northern Mexico, elegant fingers of pitaya cacti rise far above the surrounding mesquite trees. Roseate spoonbills and frigatebirds sail silently overhead, a dolphin skirts the tangle of mangroves near the shore, and a fishing boat sputters out to the Sea of Cortez. On this muggy, almost unbearably hot slice of Sonoran coastline, sunset ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, Mexico, oceans (all these topics)

Zap Dingbats?		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zap Dingbats? The Montes Azules jungle in Mexico, near the Guatemala border, is one of the largest remaining pockets of tropical rainforest in North America -- and the battle to save it has created unusual political bedfellows, to say the least. The Lacandon people, who have lived in Montes Azules for centuries and legally own much of the reserve, have squared off against other indigenous people from the nearby highlands, who ...
Topics: Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Whoa, Mexico		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Whoa, Mexico A standoff between farmers and the Mexican government over the construction of a new international airport is threatening to become a national crisis. The $2.5 billion, six-runway project has irked environmentalists since it was first proposed, because the airport is slated to be built on a former lake bed that is an important nesting ground for birds and is expected to worsen problems of urban sprawl. En ...
Topics: lakes, Mexico, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges Some of Florida's natural wonders will be protected from oil and gas drilling, thanks to two major deals announced yesterday by President Bush. The first, a completed $115 million buy-back of drilling leases off the shores of Pensacola, will protect the beaches of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, land stewardship, Mexico, mining and drilling, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

Rio Pequeno		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Rio Pequeno The Rio Grande no longer reaches the sea. In fact, it falls almost a hundred yards short, a telling illustration of the water crisis that threatens the river and the cross-border region that depends on it for survival. Years of drought and a population explosion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have stra ...
Topics: Colorado River, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, Rio Grande River, rivers and watersheds, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

I Sing the Garbage Electric		21 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
I Sing the Garbage Electric Maybe President Bush can learn a thing or two about environmental policy during his visit today to Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city and home to an innovative program to turn rotting garbage into electricity. The city government is working with a local energy company to construct an electricity plant at the Salinas Victoria Landfill; the plant will turn methane produced by decomposing ...
Topics: green living, Mexico, water pollution (all these topics)

Lent Ills		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Lent Ills In the midst of Lent, the conservation group Wildcoast is asking Pope John Paul II to declare that sea turtles are meat, not fish. The group, which focuses on the protecting coastal resources in California and Baja California, says sea turtle populations are hit especially hard during Lent because many Catholics give up meat for the 40-day period. Eating sea turtles during Lent is a longstanding traditi ...
Topics: California, marine life, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites Last month, Mexican officials learned their country is losing its forests at a rate of nearly 3 million acres a year, or nearly twice the clip previously thought; now, they're blaming the heavy deforestation on impoverished indigenous farmers in Chiapas, who slash and burn the jungle to scrape out their meager living. The long history of m ...
Topics: deforestation, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Victory at Sea David Brower leaves a legacy for dolphins	Mark J. Palmer	10 Jan 2002	Soapbox
The one-year anniversary of the death of environmental legend David Brower has come and gone, just a week after the U.S. Department of Justice decided not to appeal a dolphin protection lawsuit the Earth Island Institute filed with Dave back in 1999. Dolphins on the run. Photo: NOAA. For reasons that are still unknown, a small portion of the world's tuna swim with dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean ...
Topics: Earth Island Institute, marine life, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Speedy Gone-zales		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Right Turnabout		29 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Right Turnabout The outlook is grim for the Northern right whale, one of the most endangered animals in the world, but simple measures could bring the species back from the brink of extinction, according to a report released today. The authors of the report, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, concluded that if just two female right whales escaped needless death per year, the s ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Sting Like a Butterfly		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sting Like a Butterfly Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, assigning ...
Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

No Shrinking Violence Threats to Mexican environmentalists continue	Mark Hertsgaard	19 Nov 2001	Main Dish
Two political associates of peasant environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera have narrowly survived an apparent assassination attempt, raising grave questions about Montiel and Cabrera's own safety following their Nov. 8 release from jail by Mexican President Vicente Fox. Rodolfo Montiel. Felipe Arriga, the secretary general of the Ecologist Organization of the Mountain of Petatlan and ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Mexico, politics (all these topics)

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