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World Wildlife Day: Organized Crime Threat Growing
NEW YORK, New York, March 4, 2015 (ENS) – “It’s time to get serious about wildlife crime,” says the United Nations as the second World Wildlife Day was observed around the world this week. The special day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2013 for March 3, the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES.
EU Environment Committee Backs Emissions Trading Reform
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 1, 2015 (ENS) – A draft law to reform the European Union’s Emissions Trading System, by cutting the surplus of carbon credits available for trading so as to support the price, has won approval from the European Parliment’s Environment Committee.
First Global Pesticide Runoff Map Shows Streams At Risk
LEIPZIG, Germany, February 27, 2015 (ENS) – The application of insecticides poisons streams in roughly 40 percent of the global land surface, new research reveals. Streams in the United States, the Mediterranean, Central America and Southeast Asia are most at risk.
Ticks Carrying Lyme Disease Discovered on California Birds
BERKELEY, California, February 26, 2015 (ENS) – Ticks bearing the bacterium that causes Lyme disease are populating Northern California’s birds that then fly them into suburban areas, finds new research from the University of California, Berkeley. Lyme disease is spread to humans through the bite of infected ticks. The […]
New Fund Helps Cities Build a ‘Climate-smart Future’
WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2015 (ENS) – The World Bank Group, with financial support from The Rockefeller Foundation, is expanding its program to help cities unlock capital to build the infrastructure that supports a climate-smart urban future.
Romania Amends 2015-2030 Transport Plan to Protect Animals
BUCHAREST, Romania, February 25, 2015 (ENS) – The government of Romania has included environmental protections drafted by the global conservation group WWF, or World Wildlife Fund, in the most recent Romanian Transportation Master Plan.
Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2015 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today fulfilled his promise to veto legislation that would remove the President’s responsibility to decide whether a pipeline that crosses an international border into the United States is in the national interest and give that power to Congress.
