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Month: November 2011

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Scientists Probe Antarctic Glacier to Predict Sea Level Rise

November 15, 2011 ENS Comments Off on Scientists Probe Antarctic Glacier to Predict Sea Level Rise
Scientists Probe Antarctic Glacier to Predict Sea Level Rise

WASHINGTON, DC, November 15, 2011 (ENS) – Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier “has begun to flow more rapidly and discharge more [...]

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Nebraska Sandhills Spared: TransCanada Will Reroute Pipeline

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Nebraska Sandhills Spared: TransCanada Will Reroute Pipeline

LINCOLN, Nebraska, November 15, 2011 (ENS) – TransCanada Corporation has agreed to reroute its proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline out of [...]

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Hospitals Get Antibiotic Tracking to Stave Off Untreatable Infections

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Hospitals Get Antibiotic Tracking to Stave Off Untreatable Infections

ATLANTA, Georgia, November 14, 2011 (ENS) – Up to half of all antibiotic prescriptions written in the United States are [...]

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Clean Air Groups Settle With EPA Over Haze Cleanup

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Clean Air Groups Settle With EPA Over Haze Cleanup

WASHINGTON, DC, November 14, 2011 (ENS) – A coalition of clear air advocates and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have filed [...]

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Poll: Americans Back Federal Subsidies for Renewables, Not Fossil Fuels

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Poll: Americans Back Federal Subsidies for Renewables, Not Fossil Fuels

NEWTON, Massachusetts, November 14, 2011 (ENS) – Leaders of the Asia-Pacific economies, including the United States, declared Sunday that [...]

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Germany Faces Sticker Shock as Renewables Replace Nuclear

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Germany Faces Sticker Shock as Renewables Replace Nuclear

By John C.K. Daly

BERLIN, Germany, November 14, 2011 (ENS) – On May 30, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear [...]

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Asia-Pacific Leaders Make Green Growth a Priority

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Asia-Pacific Leaders Make Green Growth a Priority

HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 14, 2011 (ENS) – Asia-Pacific heads of state and government Sunday pledged to, “Promote energy efficiency by taking specific [...]

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Groups Ask Nuclear Agency to Delay Certification of Flawed AP1000 Reactor

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Groups Ask Nuclear Agency to Delay Certification of Flawed AP1000 Reactor

DURHAM, North Carolina, November 11, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being asked to withhold [...]

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Leaded Transport Fuel Fades Into History

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Leaded Transport Fuel Fades Into History

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 11, 2011 (ENS) – A global effort to eliminate lead in transport fuel is now nearly complete, says the United [...]

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Obama Orders Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Route Review

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Obama Orders Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Route Review

WASHINGTON, DC, November 10, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. State Department today ordered another environmental assessment for the TransCanada Keystone [...]

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Taxol Chemotherapy Tree Now Endangered, Black Rhino Extinct

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Taxol Chemotherapy Tree Now Endangered, Black Rhino Extinct

GLAND, Switzerland, November 10, 2011 (ENS) – One-quarter of all the world’s mammals are at risk of extinction despite conservation efforts, [...]

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Feds, Illinois Sue Midwest Generation to Stop Air Pollution

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Feds, Illinois Sue Midwest Generation to Stop Air Pollution

CHICAGO, Illinois, August 27, 2009 (ENS) – The federal government and the State of Illinois today filed a civil lawsuit [...]

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Another Deadly Quake Hits Eastern Turkey

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Another Deadly Quake Hits Eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey, November 9, 2011 (ENS) – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck eastern Turkey Wednesday evening at 19:23 local time, rattling the same [...]

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Irreversible Climate Change Looms Within Five Years

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Irreversible Climate Change Looms Within Five Years

LONDON, UK, November 9, 2011 (ENS) – Unless there is a “bold change of policy direction,” the world will lock itself into [...]

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State Dept. Inspector General Will Review Tar Sands Pipeline

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State Dept. Inspector General Will Review Tar Sands Pipeline

WASHINGTON, DC, November 8, 2011 (ENS) – Congressional and public criticism of the U.S. State Department’s environmental assessment of TransCanada’s [...]

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Armenian Greens Win Bid to Block Dam

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Armenian Greens Win Bid to Block Dam

By Galust Nanyan

YEREVAN, Armenia, November 8, 2011 (ENS) – Armenia’s government has scrapped a new hydroelectric project in the north of [...]

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Australian Parliament Passes Gillard Government’s Price on Carbon

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Australian Parliament Passes Gillard Government’s Price on Carbon

CANBERRA, Australia, November 8, 2011 (ENS) – “The Gillard Government has today secured a clean energy future for all Australians,” said [...]

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Large Asteroid Passes Close to Earth

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Large Asteroid Passes Close to Earth

PASADENA, California, November 7, 2011 (ENS) – On Tuesday, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will be passing closer to Earth [...]

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Indiana Waste Treatment Company Charged with Conspiracy

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Indiana Waste Treatment Company Charged with Conspiracy

EAST CHICAGO, Indiana, November 7, 2011 (ENS) – A centralized waste treatment facility in East Chicago, Indiana, its owner and a manager, [...]

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Forests of the Future Reshaped by Climate, Diseases

November 7, 2011 ENS Comments Off on Forests of the Future Reshaped by Climate, Diseases
Forests of the Future Reshaped by Climate, Diseases

CORVALLIS, Oregon, November 7, 2011 (ENS) – What scientists are calling a huge “migration” of trees has begun across much of [...]

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