By Nick Fillmore
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in the United States and Canada launched an organized campaign to expose...
May 22, 2013 5:37 pm / no comments
By Jonathan Porritt, Co-Founder, Forum for the Future
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – I am seriously delighted at this photo. That’s me and Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany standing by one of the 258,048 mirrors...
December 26, 2012 3:42 pm / no comments
By Alfonso Stefanini, Environmental Consultant
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – As we approach the date for the Mayan doomsday prophecy on December 21, 2012, and the nature and history channels fear-monger the demise...
December 10, 2012 2:53 pm / no comments
By Stan Olmstead, Natural Resource Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, retired
VERNAL, Utah, December 3, 2012 (ENS) – Never looking through rose colored glasses it is obvious that we have monumental environmental concerns...
December 3, 2012 10:00 pm / no comments
By Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International
ONBOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – When I spoke to my friends and family this weekend I was unanimously scolded. After Friday’s 15-hour occupation of Gazprom’s...
August 30, 2012 11:54 am / no comments
By Captain Paul Watson, founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
{Editor’s Note: Paul Watson was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on May 13, 2012 on a 10-year-old warrant from Costa Rica for an alleged “violation of ship traffic,”...
August 4, 2012 10:53 pm / no comments
By Lester R. Brown, founder, Earth Policy Institute
WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2012 (ENS) – In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart conclude...
August 4, 2012 10:40 pm / no comments
By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, 2012 (ENS) – Much has been said in the press and elsewhere about the disappointment many have felt about the Rio+20 outcome. Together with my colleagues...
August 4, 2012 10:33 pm / no comments
By Alejandro Zegarra Pezo
PIURA, Peru, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – It is four in the morning on Sunday, November 1 in the paramo and cloud forest of Huancabamba, Piura Department in northern Peru. Harsh detonations and yellow refulgence...
November 13, 2009 8:25 pm / no comments