Week ending Friday, September 10, 1999
New York City Wages Mosquito War
Underwater Explorers Stumble Upon Natural Gas Field
Update: Missing Tourists Killed in Crash
Rosetta Stone Celebrates 200 Years of Inquiry
One Ton of Arsenic Spills in Perth
Government Set to Purchase Wildlife-Rich Land in New Mexico
Elephantine Wounds
Earthquake Shakes Athens
Bats Infest Czech Police Station
Mir Enters Free Drift Mode
Paleontology on Columbus Avenue
Second Beluga Whale Dies at Connecticut Aquarium
Whale Watching Raises Environmental Concerns


Week ending Friday, September 3, 1999
Wildfire Threatens Resort Town
Tourists Exposed to Rabid Bear Cub at Zoo
Update: Missing Tourists Killed in Crash
Ruins of Catholic Church Found in China
Settlement Reached in Case Against U.S. Forest Service
American Tourists Missing in Tanzania
Vail Resort Builds Illegal Road
Alligator Attacks But Woman Survives
Suspect in Yosemite Killings Admits to Sexual Assaults


Week ending Friday, August 27, 1999
Barmasai Ineligible for Track's Biggest Jackpot
Michael Johnson Breaks 400m Record
Japan Tuna Hauls Limited
Marion Jones Injured at Championships
Scandal in South African Marathon
Ancient Man Discovered in Yukon
Endangered Fly Stops Building Project
U.S. Tourist Found Alive in the Desert
Maurice Greene Wins at Worlds
Hawaii Hikers Rescued


Week ending Friday, August 20, 1999
Lance Armstrong Cashes in on Credibility
Peregrine Falcon Taken Off Endangered List
Hiker's Mercy Killing of Friend in Doubt
New Species of Rabbit Discovered
Armstrong Proves Himself Off-Road
Turkey Quake Death Toll Rises to 3,500
Sailors Missing in Lake Michigan
Sprinter Merlene Ottey Tests Positive for Steroids
Over 1,000 Dead in Turkey Earthquake
Dalai Lama Visits America
Lance Armstrong Gets Phat
Chausson, Vouilloz: 1999 Downhill World Champions
Swimmer Electrocuted Saving Girl


Week ending Friday, August 13, 1999
Timber Sales Halted in Northwest
Drought Forces Bears Into Suburbs
Mir Defies Paco Rabanne
Salt Lake City Tornado Devastates Outdoor Retailer Show
Woman to Swim the Tennessee River
Evolution Dismissed from Kansas Classrooms
Hiker Admits to Killing Companion
Mexican Gray Wolf Pack Recaptured
Solar Eclipse Darkens Europe
Vail Ski Expansion Upheld
Boy Scout Attacked by Black Bear
Aussies Take World Cup Dual #7
Tanker, Tugboat Collision Sparks Oil Fire Off Indonesia
Four Die in Juneau Plane Crash
French Downhillers Set to Win World Cup Titles


Week ending Friday, August 6, 1999
Major Development in Grand Canyon a Go
Two Dead on Bering Sea
Gore Makes Clandestine Ascent Up Rainier
Grizzly Bears Kill Cows in Grand Teton Park
Stolen Mayan Artifact Returned
Jones and Kipketer Take Gold Again
Court Rules Boy Scouts' Ban on Gays Illegal
The Real Crocodile Dundee Killed in Shootout
Boaters Rescued After 19 Hours in the Ocean
Murder-Suicide on Mount Rainier
British Student Killed By Lions in Zimbabwe
Monsoons Wreaking Havoc in Southeast Asia
Mir Space Station to Be Shut Down Today
New Swimsuit Makes Waves
Steve Peat Wins Mount Saint Anne Downhill


Week ending Friday, July 30, 1999
Armstrong Back on U.S. Soil
1948 Plane Crash Located
Aleutian Canada Goose Back from Beyond
Injured Hiker Rescued on Mount St. Helens
Columbia Shuttle Leaked Fuel After Takeoff
New European Swimming Records Set
18 Dead in Swiss Canyoneering Accident
Alaskan Cruise Ship Runs Aground
Popov Defeated in 100 Meter
Suspect Confesses to Four Yosemite Murders
Heat Wave Death Toll Rises
Whirling Disease Increases In Montana Rivers
Man Arrested in Yosemite Murder
Eleven Dead from Heat Wave
Wildfires Rage Through West


Week ending Friday, July 23, 1999
Suspected Homicide in Yosemite
New Zealand Volcano Erupts
Rwanda Reopens Park to Tourism
Study Links Post Ice Age Cooling To Past Global Warming
Chasing the Jackpot
Gus Grissom's Mercury space capsule is retrieved
More Dinosaur Remains Found In Antarctic
Popov Hopes to Pop a Swimming Record
Wheelchair Racers Sue for Equal Rights
Oil Fields Found In Tibet
Solar Winds to be Collected by Spaceship
Disabled Climber Attempts El Capitan's Nose
Forest Fires Break Out in Russia


Week ending Friday, July 16, 1999
New York Book Editor Missing on Mount Rainier
Rift Valley Fever Linked to Weather Patterns
Dinosaur Bones Found in Antarctica
Kid Catches Colossal Catfish
Robin Leach Sued in Vacation Scam
One More La Niña Winter
Shipwreck Found Off South African Coast
NOLS Student Dies on Alaskan Glacier
Smithsonian Director Dies in Flight
British Women Take Gold in Modern Pentathlon Worlds
Thousands Stranded in China's Three Gorges
Boy Hot-Wires Toy Car and Hits Highway
Mir May Crash to Earth
Danes Win Long Distance Triathlon World Championships
Philippine Officials Push for Turtle Sanctuary
French Duo Dominates Downhill #5
Floods Rage in Las Vegas

Week ending Friday, July 9, 1999
Floods Rage in Las Vegas
Cambodian De-mining Scandal Unveiled
Crash Kills Moonwalker "Pete" Conrad
New World Record Set in the Mile
Bulls Trample Runners in Spain
ESPN Withholds Biker's Prize Money After Wild Stunt
BASE Jumper Dies in Norwegian Fjord
Dan O'Brien Out of World Championships
Meteor Explodes Over New Zealand
Summer Flooding in China Kills 240
Floods and Earthquakes Hit Mexico
Dahle, Frischknecht Win Mountain Biking's Seventh World Cup

Week ending Friday, July 2, 1999
9,000 Evacuated From Base of Philippine Volcano
Jones Wins 200-meter in Oslo
Yacht Race Death Toll Rises
French Cable Car Accident Kills 20
Maine's 162-Year-Old Edwards Dam Removed
Olympic Bid Documents Handed to Congress
Virenque Rides Again
Boy Scout Finds Missing Girls Alive
Pet Ferrets Ferreted Out
Hackers Attack Government Weather Site
Americans Snag Downhill Gold
Volvo-Cannondale Dominates Snow Summit
Underwater Noise Affecting Marine Life

Week ending Friday, June 25, 1999
Vaccine in Your Tea?
Co-founder of Iditarod Dies of Cancer
Indian Army Hammers Himalayan Peak
The Next Green Revolution
Scuba Diver Arrested for Faking Death
Body of Decathlete May Be Found
World's Oldest Shipwrecks Found
Killer Bees Make it East
Macabre Discovery in Brazilian Temple
Riot Police Break up Stonehenge Solstice Celebration
Scat Hounds Track Bears
Prince William Sound May Fill with Icebergs
Italy to Host 2006 Winter Games
Cambodian Temples Looted for Art
New Satellite Revolutionizes Weather-watching

Week ending Friday, June 18, 1999
Oldest Beaked-Bird Found
Navigation by the Wind and Stars
Alaska's Bear's Tooth Mountain Summited for First Time
Cultured Chimps
Greene Sets New World Record in 100
Mexico Earthquake Kills 16
Virenque Banned from Tour de France
Michael Johnson's Rival Won't Go to World Championships
Charges Dropped Against Cycling Chiefs
Blackbeard's Ship Off North Carolina Coast?
Yosemite Rockslide Kills One
IOC Official Resigns from Sydney Committee
Egyptian Necropolis Will Soon Open to Public

Week ending Friday, June 11, 1999
Suspect in Yosemite Slayings Arrested
Jones Wins Again in Helsinki
The Triathlon World Cup heads to Belgium
Helicopter Crash Kills Seven
Michigan Canoeist Tried For Cussing
Australian Occhilupo Takes Tahiti, Fiji
Discovery May Change Date of Earliest Americans
George Bush, Skydiver
Past Disaster May Force Sailing to Tighten Rules
Olympic Swim Star Banned from Competition
Lava Tubes Could Make Mars Habitable
United Expands LAX, Drops Summer Fares
World Cup Gold Again for Chausson, Vouilloz
Hurdler Melissa Morrison Wins $100,000
Richard Simmons's Protégé Hospitalized for Obesity

Week ending Friday, June 4, 1999
Jens Heppner wins Tour of Germany; Ulrich Crashes Out
Summer Camps Step Up Security
Ford Promises a Greener 21st Century
Americans Tire of Saving the Earth
Snowmobile Strife in National Parks
Greenhouse Gases Cause Warmest Winter Months
Nepalese Man Makes Tenth Everest Summit
Mars May Have Been Covered by Oceans
Great Pyramid Restored and Ready for Tourists
Mir to Go Down as Space Station Goes Up
French Riders Take World Cup Downhill #2
American Racers in Good Shape

Week ending Friday, May 28, 1999
First 3-D Map of Mars Released
Prefontaine Classic Draws Big Names
Discovery Off to the Space Station
Six Billion People by October
Tourists Left Artless in France
Expeditioners Debate Whether Mallory and Irvine Made It
China Plans First Manned Space Mission
NASA Determines Universe's Age
Danube Floods Kill Five, Evacuates Thousands
Commercial Whaling Ban Under Debate
World Cup Downhill Series Kicks Off in France
El Capitan Gets its Oldest Visitor
Senior Citizen Becomes Oldest Everest Summiter
McGrady Re-elected as Sierra Club President
Running has Record Weekend
Two More Die on Everest
Helicopter Rescues Two Climbers from McKinley

Week ending Friday, May 21, 1999
Two More Die on Everest
Baker Becomes Most Snowed-Upon Peak
Luxury Liner Sinks off the Coast of Malaysia
Ben Johnson's Lifetime Ban up for Review
Cyclone Strikes Pakistan
Scientists Return Indian Remains
People Blamed for the High Cost of Natural Disaster
Astronomers Want Your Home Videos
Kenyan Runners Claim Victory at 1999 Breakers
Dalai to Hold a Lalapalooza
Curbing Global Warming by Storing C02 in the Ocean
Senior Citizen Becomes Oldest Everest Summiter
Van Dooren, Fullana Take World Cup #5
Makah Indians Kill Gray Whale After Weekend of Protest

Week ending Friday, May 14, 1999
Tasmanian Tiger to Return from Extinction
Baker Becomes Most Snowed-Upon Peak
Monkey Business
Fifteen-year-old Nearly Summits Everest
Tour Bus Plunges off California Highway
Bette Midler Buys NYC Gardens
Relief Aid Infected by Congressional Riders
Elephants: Creatures from the Sea?
Xterra Adventure Race Jump Starts Season
Climbers Caught During Everest Descent

Week ending Friday, May 7, 1999
Earthquake in Iran Kills 16
Policy to Kill Yellowstone Bison Upheld
Marc Thiercelin Overcoming Impossible Odds in Around Alone
Severe Storms Wreak Havoc in Tennessee
Veteran Everest Climber Asks, How High is Highest?
Festina Notebooks Given to Judge
The First Everest Summit of 1999
Exxon Appeals 1994 Punitive Damages Verdict
Streaking Flight Attendant
Canadian Couple Trashes Competition in Australian Ironman
Clinton Endorses Nationwide Emission Standards
Japanese Sailor is Crossing the Pacific on Recycled Beer Kegs
Mallory's Body Found on Everest
Triathlon World Cup on 2000 Olympics Course
Space Capsule Found in Sea 38 Years After Explosion

Week ending Friday, April 30, 1999
Record Number of Porpoises Dead
Kids Cut Energy Costs
Tobacco Plants Could Weed Out Explosives' Waste
Scientists Discover Two Additional Dinosaurs Species
Ford Enters Vehicle Recycling
Giovanni Soldini Likely to Win Around Alone
Dunlap, Martinez Win Mountain Bike World Cup in Napa
Mary Decker Slaney Found Guilty of Doping
Sumo Federation Fights Fat
Joshua Tree Climbing Anchor Ban Ends
Scientists Support Land Legacy Initiative
Audubon Society Releases Troubled Bird List

Week ending Friday, April 23, 1999
Indians Protest Rainforest Mines
Gore Announces Plan to Cut Haze
Water Recreationists to Save Lakes
Bhutan Ends TV Ban
Earth Day Celebrations
National Parks in Peril
The Human Fly Goes Home
Land for Oil Leases Reduced to Protect Whales
The Future of Forests
Joseph Chebet and Fatuma Roba Win Boston Marathon
Yugoslovian Toxic Chemical Plant Bombed
Living Long Doesn't Require Living Fit
Tenth Annual Goldman Environmental Awards
KLM Shreds Squirrels
Butterflies Threatened by Mexican Logging

Week ending Friday, April 16, 1999
Guiness-Sized Single-Cell Organism
El Nino May Slow Global Warming
Bwindi Tourists Slowly Returning
Kupfernagel and Bartoli win the Fleche Wallonne
Autissier's Rescuer Leads Around Alone
Diesel in the Hot Seat
Alaskan Forest Gains Protection
Fuel Spill in Hawaiian Waters
Taiwan Gets Environmental Police Force

Week ending Friday, April 9, 1999
Escape from L.A! Attack of the Killer Bees
Gearing Up for the Olympics
Beavers Cry Timber in Washington D.C.
Buried Treasure Found Protesters Attack Greens for Involvement in Kosovo
Japanese Officials Seek to Eradicate Whale Sanctuary
Perfect Mummies Found
Drug Inquiries Yank the Chains of Italian Cyclists
Round-the-World Balloon Finds Final Resting Place

Week ending Friday, April 2, 1999
Everglades Protection Passed
Message in A Bottle
Thai Villagers Protest Dams' Effects
A New Place to Play in Canada
A Glaring Park Problem
Roadkill Conservation
Sexist Scientists
Don’t Fence Me In

Wednesday, March 24, 1999
Body Identified in Yosemite Disappearance
Friendlier Fuel
Nuclear Waste on Its Way
Predator Petitions to Protect Prey
A Sheepish Smithsonian
London Air Quality Is Falling Down
Little Dog on the Prairie
Andean Trekker Rescued by Marriage

Wednesday, March 17, 1999
Balloon Team Crosses Pacific
IOC Members Expelled for Accepting Bribes
The Salmon are Tickled Pink
Gray Whales Die Off Mexican Coast
Cyber-Dollars Buy Washington Forest
Goodwill With Attitude
May the Wind Be Always Powering Your Beer
New Device Sucks Mosquitoes to Death

Wednesday, March 10, 1999
French Hikers Die in Corsica Blizzard
World Cup Delay
Scandinavian Wolves Risk Death by Rifle
Nepalese Teen Sets Sights on Everest
A Key to Protecting the Florida Keys
Maori Waywards to Work a Waka
Birds Boozing in South Carolina
Dam It Naturally

Wednesday, March 3, 1999
Ugandan Soldiers Avenging Tourist Murders
Headwaters Forest Deal Reached
Wolves by the Numbers
Back to the Drawing Board
Birds v. Beavers: Judge rules for Flight
The Toad Road
A Dam Big Study
Florida’s Catch and Release and Catch Program
They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Freeway

Wednesday, February 17, 1999
Circumnavigator capsizes in stormy seas
Baywatch unwelcome on Australian beach
Valdez skipper begins community service
Environmental groups esteem green Swami
Company sued over cross-pollination dangers
Wisconsin plant species threatened by deer
Researchers develop possible malaria vaccine
No new logging roads

Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Tractor fuel spurts into Tennessee River
Valdez council issues progress report
Scientists disagree over turtle conservation efforts
Study reveals high lead level in Indian children
Mount Rushmore saved from Reagan's face
Logging industry equals losing industry in Alaska
Cold water surprise evokes criminal response
Eden in a bottle

Wednesday, February 3, 1999
Beer bottles banned but Everest still dirty
More windpower harnessed in 1998
Ecuadorian jungle newly off-limits
Lawsuit leads to snowmobile trail closure
Kenyan students protest new construction
Astronauts use mirrors to light up the night
Japan snow prolongs commute for over 95,000
American snowboarders dominate Worlds
Theft leads to oil spill

Wednesday, January 27, 1999
Invasive species cost United States billions
BP Amoco improving gasoline quality
Fear of corruption follows IOC
New Jersey man undergoes hand transplant
Triathletes battle it out Down Under
Earthquake devastates Western Columbia
Warm water for Colorado River fish
WWF pushes for worldwide ban on DDT
Antarctic adventurers skip return leg
Environmentalists called to Vail grand jury

Wednesday, January 20, 1999
Water quality standards finally reach Los Angeles
Treasures found in Death Valley National Park
Concerns over proposed Oregon ski area
Mexican Wolf release continues
Winter X Games entertain next ski area generation
South African man brawls with great white
Mitch’s wake means reforestation in Nicaragua
Kiwi’s introduce white smut — on purpose
UN Attempts to curtail tiger-trade

Wednesday, January 13, 1999
Oregon pollution story echoes A Civil Action
Natural disasters tourism
Temperatures reach new high in ‘98
IOC scandals expand beyond Utah
Clinton proposes $1 billion oil-for-parks deal
Major new Nitrous Oxide source found
Natural gas cars too popular in Cairo
Norway bans rural shopping malls
Forest service tracks down poached logs

Wednesday, January 6, 1999
More avalanche deaths in Utah
This isn’t a Caribbean coral reef ...
Kosir captures second World Cup victory
Millennium tree hunt underway
Seven lost at sea
Traveling with the new Euro
Wind power gains momentum