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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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