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Month: February 2013

Van Allen Probes
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NASA Probe Locates Earth’s Third Radiation Belt

February 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on NASA Probe Locates Earth’s Third Radiation Belt

 

LAUREL, Maryland, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes, robotic satellites launched last August, have now revealed a previously unknown third radiation belt around the [...]

arrowheads
Latest News

Florida Busts Artifact Thieves Who Damaged Lands, Waters

February 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Florida Busts Artifact Thieves Who Damaged Lands, Waters

 

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – A Florida undercover operation has busted a group who destroyed state lands from the Keys to the Panhandle to illegally unearth [...]

oil leak
Energy

Responders Secure Damaged Oil Well in Louisiana Marshlands

February 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Responders Secure Damaged Oil Well in Louisiana Marshlands

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – Response crews have stopped oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from an inactive oil and gas well that was [...]

Land Use/Forests

Nevada Groups Challenge Molybdenum Mine Over Public Water Rights

February 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Nevada Groups Challenge Molybdenum Mine Over Public Water Rights

 

By Lisa J. Wolf

RENO, Nevada, February 28, 2013 (ENS) – Two Nevada environmental groups have filed legal action contesting U.S. government approval of the Mount Hope molybdenum [...]

polar bear
Gov/Politics

Wildlife at the Mercy of International Trade Politics

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Wildlife at the Mercy of International Trade Politics

 

ARLINGTON, Virginia, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – In a rare reversal of diplomatic relations, the U.S. government has aligned with China on a proposal to ban international trade [...]

Kulluk
Energy

Shell Oil Cancels Offshore Alaska Drilling for 2013

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Shell Oil Cancels Offshore Alaska Drilling for 2013

 

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – After its troubled attempt to open an oil frontier off Alaska’s north shore last year, Royal Dutch Shell today [...]

Sea Shepherd
Latest News

Court: Whale Defense Group Sea Shepherd ‘Embodiment of Piracy’

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Court: Whale Defense Group Sea Shepherd ‘Embodiment of Piracy’

 

SEATTLE, Washington, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – A U.S. appeals court has sided with the Japanese whalers suing the whale conservation nonprofit Sea Shepherd, overturning a lower court [...]

South Africa officials
Energy

South Africa to Test Nissan LEAFs in Green Car Project

February 27, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on South Africa to Test Nissan LEAFs in Green Car Project

 

 

PRETORIA, South Africa, February 27, 2013 (ENS) – South Africa on Tuesday rolled out its Green Car project as part of the government’s effort to build a [...]

Deepwater Horizon fire
Energy

BP Trial Opening Day: ‘Greed Devastated the Gulf’

February 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on BP Trial Opening Day: ‘Greed Devastated the Gulf’

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 26, 2013 (ENS) – The trial to determine whether British oil company BP and its partners were guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct [...]

BPA-free bottle
Latest News

Plastics Chemical Bisphenol A May Harm Brain Development

February 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Plastics Chemical Bisphenol A May Harm Brain Development

 

DURHAM, North Carolina, February 25, 2013 (ENS) – Environmental exposure to bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastics and resins, may suppress a gene vital to nerve cell [...]

UNEP reception
Food

Environment Ministers Feast on Wasted Food

February 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Environment Ministers Feast on Wasted Food

 

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 25, 2013 (ENS) – Ministers and high-level officials from 193 countries dined on perfectly good food grown by Kenyan farmers but rejected by UK supermarkets [...]

Rockport
Air/Climate

U.S. Power Giant to Cut Coal Emissions Polluting Eastern States

February 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Power Giant to Cut Coal Emissions Polluting Eastern States

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 25, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. EPA, eight states and 13 citizens groups have reached an agreement with American Electric Power that requires the nation’s [...]

biodiesel pump
Energy

Maryland Man Jailed for Selling Fake Renewable Fuel Credits

February 25, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Maryland Man Jailed for Selling Fake Renewable Fuel Credits

 

BALTIMORE, Maryland, February 25, 2013 (ENS) – A Maryland man was sentenced Friday to 12 years and six months in prison for selling millions of dollars worth of [...]

Sandy containers
Gov/Politics

Sequester Spending Cuts Will Hurt the Environment

February 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Sequester Spending Cuts Will Hurt the Environment

 

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2013 (ENS) – If Congress does not act this coming week, automatic federal spending cuts, called the sequester, will go into effect March 1 [...]

snakes
Latest News

Toxic Mice Latest Weapon Against Guam’s Brown Tree Snakes

February 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Toxic Mice Latest Weapon Against Guam’s Brown Tree Snakes

 

HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 24, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government is preparing to drop dead mice laced with a snake toxicant into the jungles of Guam in the [...]

No Picture
At Risk

Six Storage Tanks Leaking at Hanford Nuclear Site

February 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Six Storage Tanks Leaking at Hanford Nuclear Site

 

RICHLAND, Washington, February 23, 2013 (ENS) – Six single-shell containment tanks are leaking highly radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Site in south-central Washington state, Energy Department officials [...]

BP oil spill
At Risk

BP Escapes Penalty for Oil Recovered in Gulf Spill

February 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on BP Escapes Penalty for Oil Recovered in Gulf Spill

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 22, 2013 (ENS) – A federal judge has agreed with British oil company BP that the 810,000 barrels of oil the company recovered from [...]

water bird
Energy

Wildlife Protected as National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Opened

February 21, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Wildlife Protected as National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Opened

 

WASHINGTON, DC, February 21, 2013 (ENS) – Exploration and development of lands containing about three-quarters of the economically recoverable oil in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be permitted, [...]

jaguar
Latest News

World’s Largest Camera Trap Study Snaps Millionth Photo

February 21, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on World’s Largest Camera Trap Study Snaps Millionth Photo

 

ARLINGTON, Virginia, February 21, 2013 (ENS) – Remote camera traps have captured more than one million photographs of animals and birds in tropical forests on three continents for [...]

Bow Kiso
At Risk

Chemical Tankers Collide in Gulf of Mexico

February 21, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Chemical Tankers Collide in Gulf of Mexico

 

HOUSTON, Texas, February 21, 2013 (ENS) – An oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico was averted by the quick action of  crew members aboard one of two [...]

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