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• Agriculture and "Dead Zones"
  February 2007
  In hundreds of sites around the world, pollution of waterways is creating areas where marine life cannot survive.

• "Sustainability and Climate Change: Trends and Solutions" by Jonathan Lash
  August 2006
  Presented at the 2006 Sustainability and Public Transportation Workshop in Portland, Oregon, July 16-17, 2006.

• Stories to watch in 2006: Preface
  February 2006
  

• Stories to watch in 2006: Questions from journalists
  February 2006
  

• Stories to watch in 2006: Air pollution and children's health
  February 2006
  Mercury poisoning is relatively rare, asthma increasingly common, but there is mounting evidence that air pollution, particularly from the burning of coal, is contributing to increases of both, especially among children.

• Stories to watch in 2006: Energy choices -- The year of renewables
  February 2006
  Renewable energy has become a financially and technically viable option.

• Stories to watch in 2006: Private sector leadership
  February 2006
  Last year, we suggested more private-sector leaders would begin to address climate issues. They did.

• Stories to watch in 2006: U.S. auto companies continue to struggle
  February 2006
  Last year, we predicted that U.S. auto companies would face serious challenges to their SUV-based business strategies.

• Stories to watch in 2006: The science of climate change -- The debate is all but over
  February 2006
  The scale of the changes reported in 2005 suggest that what were historically small, incremental changes in climate-related phenomena have suddenly made a huge leap.

• Stories to watch in 2006: Environmental policy in the United States
  February 2006
  Despite the climate gridlock at the federal level, last year we said it was worth watching what was going on outside of Washington.

• Stories to watch in 2006: International climate negotiations
  February 2006
  Watch the increasing isolation of the United States as other countries conclude that the climate skeptics are losing traction and that the discussions about global response have to go ahead regardless of American participation or sanction.

• Letter from Jonathan Lash, President, WRI
  October 2005
  As the evidence of human-caused climate change grows stronger, we need to understand that global inaction is rapidly eliminating options for protecting our world.

• Turning the Corner in Mexico City
  July 2005
  It was crowded from the day it opened a month ago, and the operators of Mexico City's new Bus Rapid Transit system are still working out the bugs but it is already reducing pollution and travel times.

• A courageous step: GE's Ecomagination campaign
  May 2005
  Last Monday afternoon I found myself seated on a tall director's chair next to Jeffrey Immelt the Chairman and CEO of General Electric ...

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