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WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2013 (ENS) – “We cannot afford to ignore what the overwhelming judgment of science tells us: that climate change is real and that it poses an urgent threat to our people and our planet,” President...
WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2013 (ENS) – What started in 1970 as a teach-in about the environment has expanded year by year until Earth Day actions this year include more than one billion people in some 192 countries. Many people are...
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 15, 2013 (ENS) – The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced the six recipients of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, a group of grassroots leaders working to protect the environment...
PORTLAND, Oregon, April 12, 2013 (ENS) – His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, will be in Oregon May 9 through 11 to lead a three-day conference on the environment called the Environmental Summit: Universal Responsibility...
SYDNEY, Australia, March 25, 2013 (ENS) – This year for the first time, Russia’s Kremlin, the residence of the President, and Red Square switched off their lights for Earth Hour, a global environmental initiative of WWF held at...
NEW YORK, New York, March 25, 2013 (ENS) – Film star Ezra Miller will ski to the North Pole in early April to plant a “flag for the future” on the seabed, as part of a Greenpeace International campaign to protect the...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – A Florida undercover operation has busted a group who destroyed state lands from the Keys to the Panhandle to illegally unearth and sell historic Florida artifacts, such as arrowheads,...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, January 14, 2013 (ENS) – Multiplatinum-selling South African rock band The Parlotones Sunday brought onstage a life-sized art piece in the form of a lion, painted by drummer Neil Pauw to dramatize the plight...
By Tina Gerhardt LOS ANGELES, California, January 6, 2013 (ENS) – Hydraulic fracturing, known colloquially as fracking, is a contentious issue, and Hollywood has not overlooked it. “Promised Land,” directed by Gus Van Sant...
HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 23, 2009 (ENS) – A federal judge in Honolulu has ruled that the U.S. Army is obliged to give the community meaningful information on how military training at Makua Military Reservation on Oahu could damage native...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, November 23, 2009 (ENS) – Emotional appeals to Nepalese officials by animal advocates from around the world have not persuaded them to call a halt to the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of animals and birds planned...
PHOENIX, Arizona, November 16, 2009 (ENS) – More than one in five large U.S. cities surveyed by the American Institute of Architects has a policy of promoting green buildings, and the number of cities building green is on the rise. The...
By Greg Harman MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 10, 2009 (ENS) – Archeologist Richard Hansen, an expert in early Mayan civilization, studies human culture down to the microscopic level. And he knows what the signs of collapse look like. While...
LONDON, UK, November 4, 2009 (ENS) – The world’s religions have a crucial role to play in the fight against global climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, characterizing the battle with global warming as...
BURBANK, California, November 2, 2009 (ENS) – The Walt Disney Company, which for 60 years has portrayed the glories of nature in film, today announced a $7 million investment to protect forests in the United States, in the Peruvian...
PERTH, Australia, October 22, 2009 (ENS) – The world’s largest carbon dioxide capture and storage project under Barrow Island off Australia’s west coast, will be powered with compression equipment supplied by GE Oil...
WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2009 (ENS) – Team Germany, the student team from Darmstadt, Germany, won first place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon today by designing, building, and operating the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home,...
OSLO, Norway, October 9, 2009 (ENS) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy...
