WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2009 (ENS) – The emergence of a home retrofit market that would increase energy efficiency and cut home energy bills has been hampered by [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2009 (ENS) – The White House today opened a two-week window for federal employees to suggest their own clean energy and green ideas and [...]
GREENBELT, Maryland, October 19, 2009 (ENS) – Powerful tropical cyclones have developed on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, according to NASA satellite data, and the governments of [...]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, October 19, 2009 (ENS) – “Climate change has catapulted forests onto the international agenda after years of languishing in the dusty corridors of UN meetings,” [...]
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 [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa, October 16, 2009 (ENS) – The 2009 World Food Prize has been awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 15, 2009 (ENS) – The Toyota Prius hybrid leads the 2010 model cars in fuel efficiency with 51 miles per gallon on the highway and [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 15, 2009 (ENS) – At a Congressional hearing today held to mark the 37th year since passage of the Clean Water Act, U.S. EPA Administrator [...]
GAINESVILLE, Florida, October 15, 2009 (ENS – Five giant exotic snake species already in the United States would pose high risks to the health of U.S. ecosystems if [...]
BALTIMORE, Maryland, October 15, 2009 (ENS) – The Maryland Department of Environment will issue a general discharge permit, effective December 1, 2009, for Maryland Animal Feeding Operations (MAFOs) and [...]
LONDON, UK, October 15, 2009 (ENS) – The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew celebrated a milestone in plant conservation today, the collection and banking of 10 percent of the [...]
NEW YORK, New York, October 15, 2009 (ENS) – To help limit climate change, the international air transport industry has made a commitment to cut its carbon emissions [...]
LOS ANGELES, California, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – The Natural Resources Defense Council is mounting a new campaign to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the world’s most productive salmon [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – A criminal case that began in 2004 when a man dumped toxic chemicals down the drain in West Bountiful, Utah ended [...]
NEW YORK, New York, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – Each year, a few reproductively active humpback whales swim between breeding grounds in the South Atlantic and Indian oceans, [...]
BEIJING, China, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – Blood tests on 968 children in China’s largest lead smelting area have shown “excessive lead levels,” the official Chinese news agency [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 13, 2009 (ENS) – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $55 million will be made available to develop advanced technologies that can capture [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa, October 13, 2009 (ENS) – Iowa Governor Chet Culver today awarded $1 million to the City of West Union to establish an innovative geothermal district-wide [...]
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, October 13, 2009 (ENS) – Concern about the rate of development of Urban Stormwater Programs by municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permit holders in [...]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, October 13, 2009 (ENS) – The world will not achieve its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, the International Year of [...]
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