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Month: November 2012

polar bears
Air/Climate

Canada Must Answer Polar Bear Climate Challenge by U.S. Group

November 30, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Canada Must Answer Polar Bear Climate Challenge by U.S. Group

 

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, November 30, 2012 (ENS) – A petition from an American environmental group alleging Canada’s failure to protect polar bears under Canadian law will move forward [...]

Chevy Spark
Latest News

Chevy’s First Electric Car Sparks Up Los Angeles Auto Show

November 30, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Chevy’s First Electric Car Sparks Up Los Angeles Auto Show

 

LOS ANGELES, California, November 30, 2012 (ENS) – Chevrolet’s first pure electric vehicle, the Spark EV, was unveiled Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Executive Chief Engineer [...]

Pacific coral
Latest News

U.S. Proposes Federal Protection for 66 Coral Species

November 30, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Proposes Federal Protection for 66 Coral Species

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 30, 2012 (ENS) – Sixty-six species of coral in U.S. waters should be protected under the Endangered Species Act because global warming, disease and ocean [...]

Hurricane Sandy
Air/Climate

2012 Breaks Records for Heat, Drought, Weather Extremes

November 30, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 2012 Breaks Records for Heat, Drought, Weather Extremes

 

DOHA, Qatar, November 29, 2012 (ENS) – “Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of [...]

Drakes Bay
Land Use/Forests

Oyster Farm Loses Permit at Point Reyes National Seashore

November 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Oyster Farm Loses Permit at Point Reyes National Seashore

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2012 (ENS) – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today decided to let the Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s 40-year operating permit expire at Point [...]

plastic bag Toronto
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Toronto Trashes Its Plastic Bag Ban

November 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Toronto Trashes Its Plastic Bag Ban

 

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, November 29, 2012 (ENS) – Toronto City Council has thrown out its controversial plastic bag ban.

City Council voted 38-7 on Wednesday to approve a [...]

Big Cajun II
Air/Climate

Louisiana’s Largest Clean Air Act Settlement Filed in Court

November 29, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Louisiana’s Largest Clean Air Act Settlement Filed in Court

 

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, November 29, 2012 (ENS) – Louisiana’s biggest illegal air polluter has agreed with the federal government to the largest Clean Air Act settlement ever filed [...]

Murum dam construction
Energy

Sarawak Indigenous People Win Australian Greens to Anti-Dam Cause

November 28, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Sarawak Indigenous People Win Australian Greens to Anti-Dam Cause

 

CANBERRA, Australia, November 28, 2012 (ENS) – Australian Greens Senators have joined with indigenous leaders from the Malaysian state of Sarawak in a new national campaign to get [...]

Ruse ship
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Small Oil Leak Points Up Big Danube River Issues

November 27, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Small Oil Leak Points Up Big Danube River Issues

 

REGENSBURG, Germany, November 27, 2012 (ENS) – Oil leaking from a capsized ship in the town of Ruse on the Danube River could have serious consequences, environmentalists are [...]

Bwindi gorilla
Latest News

Mountain Gorilla Populations Grow as Conservation Succeeds

November 27, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Mountain Gorilla Populations Grow as Conservation Succeeds

 

KAMPALA, Uganda, November 27, 2012 (ENS) – The world’s population of critically endangered mountain gorillas has risen to a total of 880 – up from the estimate of [...]

Doha leaders
Air/Climate

Converting Agreements to Action Key to Doha Climate Talks

November 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Converting Agreements to Action Key to Doha Climate Talks

 

DOHA, Qatar, November 26, 2012 (ENS) – Gathered in Doha for the UN’s annual climate change summit, thousands of delegates representing governments, international organizations and civil society groups [...]

Greenland glacier
Air/Climate

Europe Changing Fast as Climate Warms

November 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Europe Changing Fast as Climate Warms

BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 26, 2012 (ENS) – Climate change is affecting all regions of Europe as glaciers melt, the Greenland ice sheet shrinks, sea levels rise, snow cover decreases [...]

switched reluctance motor
Latest News

No Rare Earths in Next Generation Electric Vehicles

November 23, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on No Rare Earths in Next Generation Electric Vehicles

 

CHICAGO, Illinois, November 23, 2012 (ENS) – A variety of electric motors that use no rare earth minerals are being developed in the United States to power future [...]

Teesmouth industry
Air/Climate

Global Climate Emissions ‘Gap’ Widens, Rescue Still Possible

November 21, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Global Climate Emissions ‘Gap’ Widens, Rescue Still Possible

 

LONDON, UK, November 21, 2012 (ENS) – Actions to limit climate change must be immediately scaled up and accelerated if the world is to have any chance of [...]

clothing store
Business

Greenpeace Exposes Toxic Chemicals in Fashionable Clothing

November 20, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Greenpeace Exposes Toxic Chemicals in Fashionable Clothing

 

BEIJING, China, November 20, 2012 (ENS) – Some of the world’s best known fashion retailers are selling clothing contaminated with hazardous chemicals that break down to form hormone-disrupting [...]

Galapagos coral
Latest News

Galapagos Corals May Predict the Future of Reefs Worldwide

November 20, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Galapagos Corals May Predict the Future of Reefs Worldwide

 

By Julian Smith

LANDOVER, Maryland, November 20, 2012 (ENS) – The Galapagos Islands have been famous for a century and a half, but even Charles Darwin did not [...]

Tar Sands blockader arrested
Energy

Twelve Arrested in Texas Keystone XL Pipeline Blockade

November 19, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Twelve Arrested in Texas Keystone XL Pipeline Blockade

 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, November 19, 2012 (ENS) – Twelve people were arrested in east Texas today as they blockaded construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The protesters [...]

oil platform
At Risk

One Dead, One Missing in Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Explosion

November 19, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on One Dead, One Missing in Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Explosion

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 19, 2012 (ENS) – U.S. government agencies are investigating an explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico Friday aboard an oil production platform [...]

drought Kenya
Air/Climate

World Bank Sounds Alarm on ‘Cataclysmic’ Climate Change

November 19, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on World Bank Sounds Alarm on ‘Cataclysmic’ Climate Change

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2012 (ENS) – Time is running out to avoid devastating climate change, finds a new report commissioned by the World Bank and reviewed by [...]

Deepwater Horizon
At Risk

BP Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges in Gulf Oil Spill

November 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on BP Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges in Gulf Oil Spill

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 15, 2012 (ENS) – Oil giant BP has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $4 billion to settle criminal charges stemming from [...]

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