LONDON, UK, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games has met the vast majority of its sustainability targets, says the United Nations official in charge of helping Olympic Games host cities produce events that protect the environment and make smart use of their resources. […]
KAMPALA, Uganda, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – Uganda’s Ministry of Health is advising residents to avoid eating dead animals especially monkeys, after declaring an outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus that has killed 14 people. […]
CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – The climate’s “new normal” for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 – the most severe drought in 800 years. […]
By Zafar Iqbal NEELUM VALLEY, Jammu and Kashmir, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – A journalist has been arrested by police and is being detained after the publication of photos he […]
LONDON, UK, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – As the first day of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games dawns with the ringing of bells across Britain, the grassroots campaign group Greener […]
URBANA, Illinois, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A 10-year prison sentence was imposed today on an Illinois man who was convicted of illegally removing asbestos insulation and exposing workers […]
AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A state air pollution permit for a petroleum coke-fueled power plant planned for a city on the Texas coast was struck down […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – People across the United States and Canada this week are marking the two-year anniversary of the Kalamazoo River tar sands oil spill with demonstrations, candlelight vigils and news conferences that all deliver a single message – a similar spill could happen anywhere. […]
By Captain Paul Watson, founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society {Editor’s Note: Paul Watson was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on May 13, 2012 on a 10-year-old warrant from Costa Rica for […]
STRAUBING, Germany, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – Swiss chemicals company Clariant has opened Germany’s largest pilot plant for making climate-friendly cellulose ethanol from agricultural waste. […]
By Lester R. Brown, founder, Earth Policy Institute WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2012 (ENS) – In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect William […]
By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, 2012 (ENS) – Much has been said in the press and elsewhere about the disappointment many have felt about […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – Retail food prices are predicted to rise as soon as this fall due to the high temperatures, low rainfall and 70-year record drought across the Midwest that have boosted commodity prices for corn, soybeans and other field crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – “We meet at a time when the illegal killing and illegal trade in African elephants and rhinoceros have reached the highest levels in over a decade,” John Scanlon told a gathering of those who govern international trade in protected wildlife on behalf of 175 governments. […]
STATESBORO, Georgia, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – A county judge has handed the nonprofit conservation group Ogeechee Riverkeeper a victory in its efforts to stop a Chicago-based textile manufacturer from discharging pollutants into the Ogeechee River. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Virtually the entire ice sheet covering Greenland – from its coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center – experienced some degree of melting for several days this month, according to an analysis by NASA and university scientists based on measurements from three satellites. […]
BARCELONA, Spain, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Four people have died in two giant wildfires now devastating northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region. Since they blazed up on the weekend, the fires have injured at least 100 people and scorched about 10,000 hectares (38 square miles). […]
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – The 2012 American Solar Challenge, an eight-day 1,650-mile competition for solar-powered vehicles, ended in St. Paul on Saturday with the University of […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – Today marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first satellite in the Landsat series […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – The British Columbia government today outlined five minimum requirements for the province to consider the construction and operation of heavy […]
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