Corporate Dollars Defeated Enviro Voters	by Pratap Chatterjee Outspent by special interests, the real election losers were the red spruce and hemlock forests of northern Maine, dense pine forests in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, and the saw-grass prairie and mangrove swamps of southern Florida
McLibel Trial Now Longest in British History	by Jeff Elliott The trial, which began in the summer of 1994, has stretched beyond two years, with roughly 15 thousand pages of testimony from 180 witnesses
Banned Pesticides Heavily Used in Third World	by Lewis Machipisa Manufacturers in developed countries are dumping their stocks of lethal and environmentally damaging products on the Third World market
Big GOP Donor Also Biggest Anti-Trust Violator	by Theo Emery While Dole attacked Clinton for Indonesian connections, GOP backer Archer Daniels Midland agrees to pay the largest anti-trust settlement in U.S. history
Canada Gold Rush Threatens Native Peoples	by Pratap Chatterjee Mining companies, hundreds of prospectors racing to remote northern areas of Canada in the last three months to claim land traditionally owned by Innu and Inuit
Europeans Reject U.S. Genetic Engineered Plants	Backlash against the controversial U.S. policy allowing unlabelled soybeans to be mixed in with the ordinary beans
No More Antarctic Ozone Left to Destroy	by Gustavo Capdevila and Judith Perera This year the hole covered a surface area over the South Pole roughly equal in size to the North American continent
Global Warming is Hard Message to Sell	by Gary Gach Scientists hope that this year the skeptical public gets a critical message: global warming is real and it's here to stay
1950's Soviet A-Bomb Tests Still Claim Victims	by Andrei Ivanov The incidence and type of genetic disorders in adults and children are similar to those seen downwind of the 1986 explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant
War on Drugs Created Health Crisis Abroad	by Peter Zirnite By treating drug abuse as a criminal and not health problem, U.S. policy has lead to increased use of needle drugs like heroin
Vietnamese Drug Use a 'National Disaster'	by Nguyen Phan Phuong "I sniff several small capsules of heroin per day," a sixth grader said
Vitamin Could Help Teen Girls in Academics	Johns Hopkins finding could help estimated 25 percent of adolescent females in the United States
Sonny Bono's Theatre of the Absurd	What do you get when you combine a politician, a bleeding ulcer, a missed election debate, allegations of CIA death squads and wacky humor?

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