Environmental News Network

India Begins Count of Threatened Tigers
Armed with radio collars and high-tech cameras, hundreds of wildlife experts fanned out across a vast mangrove in India's east on Thursday as part of the world's largest census of the endangered tiger. >> Read the Full Article
Florida Manatee Deaths Jump 30 Percent in 2005
Sweet Gum was fatally injured by a racing boater. Her calf, Rachel, was also killed by a boat near Lake Monroe, and so was her granddaughter, Ruby. >> Read the Full Article
China Orders End to Limits on Small Car Sales in Anti-Pollution Effort
China's government has ordered an end to restrictions on sales of smaller cars in an effort to clean up worsening smog and rein in surging oil use, state media said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Group Remaps Some Tsunami Disaster Areas
A Pacific Northwest aid group has digitally remapped some villages that were reduced to rubble fields in the Indonesian province of Aceh. >> Read the Full Article
Nations Debate Approaches to Greener Development
Producers of half the world's "greenhouse" gases are angling for more private investment to create cleaner energy technologies and help slow global warming. >> Read the Full Article
Police Briefly Hold Greenpeace Activists Accusing France of Dumping Toxic Wastes in India
Police on Tuesday detained 13 Greenpeace activists outside the French Embassy in New Delhi, where they were accusing France of sending an old military aircraft carrier containing toxic waste to a shipbreaking yard in India. >> Read the Full Article
Stockholm Tries out Traffic Tolls To Ease Congestion
Drivers had to pay a fee to enter Stockholm on Tuesday as the city started a seven-month trial of a contentious program designed to reduce traffic and cut pollution in the Swedish capital. >> Read the Full Article
Mexico Peasants Take up Machetes against Acapulco Dam
Due to be completed in 2012, La Parota will be one of Mexico's biggest dams, flooding swathes of forest and subsistence farmland around the Papagayo River. >> Read the Full Article
U.S. Government Mulls Options for Protecting Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
While the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have been protected for nearly a century as a refuge, the surrounding reefs are entering a critical year for their protection in 2006. >> Read the Full Article
Nature Conservancy Pays $2.2 Million To Preserve Forestland in Maine
The Nature Conservancy said that it paid $2.2 million to preserve nearly 10,000 acres of forestland in Maine, capping a busy year for groups working to conserve open spaces around the state. >> Read the Full Article