ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, December 31, 2012 (ENS) – In 2012, the United States experienced 11 extreme weather and climate events that cost more than $1 billion in losses, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 28, 2012 (ENS) – Rainforest Action Network and its members are mourning the sudden loss of Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton, who died Wednesday on [...]
TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, December 28, 2012 (ENS) – China’s coral reefs have declined by 80 percent in the past three decades, destroyed by the consequences of economic development, [...]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, December 28, 2012 (ENS) – The federal government has signed an agreement to provide $1.55 billion to the City and County of Honolulu to build Hawaii’s [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 27, 2012 (ENS) – Lisa Jackson, who has headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during President Obama’s first term in office, is leaving the Cabinet [...]
SACRAMENTO, California, December 27, 2012 (ENS) – The California Air Resources Board has approved Honda’s first plug-in hybrid as the first car that meets the state’s newest and [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – Genetically engineered salmon are likely to appear on American dinner plates for the first time in the near future, following the [...]
HAVANA, Cuba, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – A rise in cholera cases in the Cuban capital Havana is being traced back to parts of the country hardest hit by [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 21, 2012 (ENS) – The size of two national marine sanctuaries off the coast of north-central California could be doubled if the expansion proposed today [...]
STRASBOURG, France, December 20, 2012 (ENS) – Vehicle noise limits must be lowered to protect the health of EU citizens, said Environment Committee MEPs, who approved a legislative [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, December 18, 2012 (ENS) – Indonesia has identified the bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of ducks over the past few weeks as [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – In an unprecedented collaboration, offshore wind developers have agreed to voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while [...]
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol took legal effect on Saturday, December 15. Canada is the only nation out of [...]
BERNE, Switzerland, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – Switzerland’s Parliament has approved a motion banning single-use plastic shopping bags.
Both houses of the Swiss Parliament Thursday voted to forbid [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – A leaked early draft of the UN’s latest climate change study shows human activities to be responsible for climate warming that [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 17, 2012 (ENS) – A majority of the world’s largest companies are not waiting for governments to mandate renewable energy and lower greenhouse gas emissions, [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 14, 2012 (ENS) – Under a court order, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful [...]
SEATTLE, Washington, December 13, 2012 (ENS) – Citizens concerned about coal’s contribution to global warming and the potential impact to the Puget Sound ecosystem spoke out Thursday against [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 12, 2012 (ENS) – Appalled by the amount of plastic debris floating in the Pacific Ocean, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity is petitioning [...]
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