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2004 Archive

• Navy under global pressure to limit sonar use
  EU, others call for cut in noises that harm sea life (Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle)
  — 14 December, 04
• New Earth Island Project to Connect Consumers Who Want to Take Action to End the Use of Genetically Engineered (GE) Ingredients in Our Foods.
  Welcome to the True Food Network
  — 9 December, 04
• Los Angeles Times highlights the John Muir Project: What Bears Do in the Woods
  Forests are a cash crop for the U.S. Forest Service, which operates under a system of financial rewards that encourages the agency to cut timber and fight fires even if doing so makes no ecological sense.
  — 22 November, 04
• White House Asks Congress to Overturn Court Decision on Yucca Mountain!
  Contact your Senators now!
  — 16 November, 04
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Release of Draft EIS on Cape Wind Project Violates the Public Trust and Threatens Give-Away of Ocean Property to Private Developments
  — 9 November, 04
• An Urgent Message from Earth Island About Bush's Re-election
  — 4 November, 04
• Drought Unearths a Buried Treasure
  A severe drought has made Glen Canyon, at the shallow confluence of Coyote Creek and Escalante River, open and visible much as it was before the dam was built.
  — 2 November, 04
• Expanded Lawsuit Over Raptor Kills at Altamont Pass, Calfornia Wind Turbines — California Energy Commission Blasts Wind Companies' Sham Mitigation Plan
  — 2 November, 04
• Steelhead Trout and Salmon Return to Alameda Creek
  Threatened Fish Blocked From Spawning; River Otter Also Seen in Lower Creek
  — 2 November, 04
• NPS Retirees: National Park Service is Hiding Report Calling for More Scientific Approach to Park Management
  7 Months Pass Since Submission of Report That Urges More Emphasis on Resource Protection; Another Sign of Administration’s Anti-Scientific Agenda, As Reflected in Yellowstone Snowmobiles.
  — 2 November, 04
• Earth Island Journal Winter 2005 is now online
  — 27 October, 04
• President Bush Entangled in Tuna/Dolphin Issue
  — 26 October, 04
• Preview from the Winter 2005 Issue of the Earth Island Journal, 'Bush: the environmental record' by David Helvarg
  "There’s no longer even the pretense of even-handedness in the White House"
  — 21 October, 04
• Robert "Bob" Brower, 1946 - 2004
  We will miss Bob's courage, enthusiasm, and intense compassion for living things.
  — 19 October, 04
• Earth Island's Dolphin Lawsuit: Appeal?
  — 7 October, 04
• Scientists Optimistic After Sightings of Critically Endangered Whale
  Doubling the tally of known Right Whales to 25
  — 7 October, 04
• Earth Island Institute Urges Withdrawal of MSC Eco-Label for Pollock Fishery
  Greenwashing Commercial Fisheries
  — 9 September, 04
• $40,000 for Falsely Labeled "Dolphin Safe" Tuna
  — 2 September, 04
• Appalachian Trail Threatened at Dozens of Points In Six States by Plan to Repeal Roadless Forest Rule
  Nearly 50 segments of the popular 2,100-mile-long Appalachian Trail (AT) stretching from Georgia to Maine are endangered...
  — 31 August, 04
• New Earth Island Project Fights to Protect Tropical Reefs
  Reef Protection International will address coral reef conservation by enabling reform in the saltwater aquarium trade
  — 19 August, 04
• Federal Court Strikes Down Bush Administration's Effort to Weaken Dolphin Protection
  Judge Strengthens Dolphin Safe Tuna Label
  — 10 August, 04
• 2004 Brower Youth Awards — Environmental Rollbacks Fire Up Young Activists
  National Award Honors Outstanding Student Leaders
  — 10 August, 04
• Six Flags' Orca Pursuit Not Black and White
  U.S.-backed whale importation would violate Argentine export law (SF Chronicle)
  — 3 August, 04
• Earth Island Journal Summer 2004 Is Now Archived
  — 3 August, 04
• Bush Dolphin Flip-Flop
  Federal Agency Withheld Evidence Concluding Harm to Dolphins Just Eleven Days Before Administration Issues Opposite Decision
  — 25 May, 04
• Tuna Dolphin Lawsuit Hearing
  Oral Arguments for "Dolphin Safe" Tuna Label Lawsuit "Earth Island Institute v US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans"
  — 20 May, 04
• Troubled by Bribery Charges, Boxer and Miller Call for Ban on Mexico's Use of "Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Labeling
  — 18 May, 04
• New Study Shows IATTC "Dolphin Safe" Tuna Standards Still Kills
  Study Confirms That Dolphin Babies are Separated from Mothers During Chase
  — 6 May, 04
• $10,000 Bribes to Official Observers to Falsify Dolphin Data
  Judge Orders Bush Administration to Include Bribery Evidence and Provide Documents on Observer Fraud
  — 29 April, 04
• Inside Fallujah: Days of Bullets, Bombs and Bodies. AND The Dead We Cannot Help
  The Latest News from The-Edge Online Magazine
  — 26 April, 04
• Earth Island Journal Spring 2004 Is Now Archived
  — 22 April, 04
• Fishing a toxic bay
  San Francisco Chronicle
  — 19 April, 04
• Most Endangered Rivers of 2004 Announced
  #1 Colorado River, #2 Big Sunflower River (MS), ....
  — 15 April, 04
• The Latest News from The-Edge Online Magazine
  Saying 'No to War' on April 15: A Letter from a War-tax Resister and more...!
  — 12 April, 04
• Earth Island In the News: Vallejo Marine World's Orca Angers Whale Lover
  — 12 April, 04
• The Latest News from The-Edge Online Magazine
  Chemtrails Are Now Taught in Schools, The Chemtrail Patent, Why Does the University of California Want to Destroy a Unique Organic Farm?, and more...
  — 30 March, 04
• SafeWind Groups File Brief in Lawsuit Challenging Cape Wind Tower in Nantucket Sound
  Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  — 24 March, 04
• Sharon Fuller of Ma'at Youth Academy Honored as 2004 Woman of the Year
  For State of California's 14th Assembly District
  — 22 March, 04
• Alaska Wolves Unwelcome Dinner Guests
  The controversial program allows hunters in planes to track and kill wolves from the air
  — 18 March, 04
• Welcome Rooted in Community - Earth Island's New Project!
  Rooted in Community (RIC) is a national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their own communities
  — 18 March, 04
• Effect of Aquaculture on World Fish Supplies
  The article appeared in the prestigious British journal Nature (vol. 386, 13 March 1997, p. 107).
  — 15 March, 04
• Legal Opinion on Offshore Wind Energy Provision of Energy Bill
  — 11 March, 04
• Exciting Annoucements from KIDS for the BAY!
  KIDS for the BAY (KftB) collaborates with teachers to inspire environmental consciousness in children and cultivate a love of learning.
  — 8 March, 04
• Oppose the Paseo Del Norte road thru Petroglyph National Monument
  Sacred Land Film Project
  — 26 February, 04
• Welcome BAIDO - Earth Island's New Project!
  — 23 February, 04
• Pacific Dolphins Make Waves for US Policy on Mexican Tuna
  From Nature
  — 12 February, 04
• The Earth Island Journal Spring 2004 issue is online now!
  — 9 February, 04
• Secret Memos Show Bush Administration Conspired with Mexico to Ignore Science, Gut Dolphin Protection
  — 5 February, 04
• Controversial Shooting Range Near Bear Butte Defeated!
  — 2 February, 04
• Critical Hour: Three Mile Island, The Nulclear Legacy, and National Security
  The report reviews the troubled history of the civilian nuclear industry in the US and calls for a phase out of nuclear energy in light of the attack of Sep. 11, 2001.
  — 26 January, 04
• Bush Prepares to Launch Dangerous Space Policy
  The hidden agenda of Bush's plan to "send a man to the Moon" includes seizing the Moon as a base for US military and mining operations.
  — 22 January, 04
• Keiko the Killer Whale Memorial Raised
  300 children attended the farewell service
  — 22 January, 04
• On Nature's Terms: Predators and People Co-existing in Harmony
  Aired by PBS in Spring 2002 and now available on VHS!
  — 8 January, 04
• A Map of Sacred Places Around the World
  These holy sites draw people from far away ... and preserve biodiversity.
  — 8 January, 04