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uranium-bearing land, Virginia
At Risk

Southern Environmental Law Center Names Top 10 Places At Risk

February 10, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Southern Environmental Law Center Names Top 10 Places At Risk

 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, February 10, 2013 (ENS) – Political pressure to lift Virginia’s longstanding ban on uranium mining threatens the health of the Roanoke River Basin, which supplies drinking water [...]

refueling ship
Latest News

Sea Shepherd Blockades Japanese Whalers’ Fuel Tanker

February 10, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Sea Shepherd Blockades Japanese Whalers’ Fuel Tanker

 

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 10, 2013 (ENS) – Sea Shepherd Australia’s new whale defense ship, the SSS Sam Simon, has located the refueling tanker for the Japanese whaling fleet. [...]

moose
Latest News

Minnesota Investigates Mystery Moose Decline

February 8, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Minnesota Investigates Mystery Moose Decline

 

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – Moose in Minnesota are dying and the reasons are a mystery to state wildlife officials. The Minnesota Department of Natural [...]

Barroso, Van Rompuy
Air/Climate

Climate Gets 20 Percent of Seven-Year European Budget

February 8, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Gets 20 Percent of Seven-Year European Budget

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – European heads of state and government have agreed to commit at least 20 percent of the entire European Union budget over [...]

fishing boats
Food

EU Parliament Uses New Powers to End Overfishing

February 8, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on EU Parliament Uses New Powers to End Overfishing

 

STRASBOURG, France, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – A major reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, which aims to end overfishing, ban discards and restrict catches to sustainable [...]

biodiesel pump
Energy

Biodiesel Fuels ‘A New American Economy’

February 7, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Biodiesel Fuels ‘A New American Economy’

 

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – The biodiesel industry “is helping create “a new dynamic in America,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a packed audience [...]

Koongarra
Land Use/Forests

Australia Places Aboriginal Land in Park to Bar Uranium Mining

February 7, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Australia Places Aboriginal Land in Park to Bar Uranium Mining

 

CANBERRA, Australia, February 7, 2013 (ENS) – After 34 years of campaigning to keep uranium mining out of his ancestral land of Koongarra, Djok Senior Traditional Owner Jeffrey [...]

Obama, Jewell, Salazar
Gov/Politics

REI Chief Nominated Secretary of the Interior

February 6, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on REI Chief Nominated Secretary of the Interior

 

WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – Sally Jewell, who now heads outdoors retailer REI, the nation’s largest consumer cooperative, has been nominated as the next Secretary of [...]

cleared forest
Land Use/Forests

Indonesian Paper Giant Pledges No More Deforestation

February 6, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Indonesian Paper Giant Pledges No More Deforestation

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – In an agreement with Greenpeace, the giant Asia Pulp and Paper Group Tuesday announced a new Forest Conservation Policy that puts [...]

elephant carcass
At Risk

Poachers Slaughter Thousands of Central Africa’s Elephants

February 6, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Poachers Slaughter Thousands of Central Africa’s Elephants

 

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – Poachers have killed some 11,000 elephants in the Central African country of Gabon since 2004, finds a study by the Gabonese [...]

EVI van
Business

UPS Deploys 100 Electric Delivery Vans in California

February 6, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on UPS Deploys 100 Electric Delivery Vans in California

 

SACRAMENTO, California, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – UPS is buying 100 electric commercial vehicles made in California and putting them to work delivering packages around the state, the [...]

water purification
Latest News

U.S. & Saudi Engineers Turn Gas Well Water to Drinking Water

February 5, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. & Saudi Engineers Turn Gas Well Water to Drinking Water

 

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have filed for patents on a new water purification system that turns the [...]

Air/Climate

Asian Countries to Reduce Short-lived Climate Pollutants

February 5, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Asian Countries to Reduce Short-lived Climate Pollutants

 

BANGKOK, Thailand, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – Officials from 19 Asian countries are cooperating to reduce the impact of short-lived climate pollutants in the Asia-Pacific region.

At a [...]

New York
Air/Climate

Waste Heat From Cities Has Global Climate Effects

February 5, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Waste Heat From Cities Has Global Climate Effects

 

SAN DIEGO, California, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – The waste heat generated by everyday energy consumption in urban areas is influencing major atmospheric circulation systems and causing continental-scale [...]

Brown, Hansen
Latest News

Sea Shepherd Australia Thwarts Japanese Whalers

February 4, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Sea Shepherd Australia Thwarts Japanese Whalers

 

HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – The month of January, usually the prime whale catching month for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, has [...]

2013 Ford C-MAX Energi
Latest News

Green Car Awards Go to Mazda, Ford

February 4, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Green Car Awards Go to Mazda, Ford

 

WASHINGTON, DC, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Mazda North America was honored with the inaugural 2013 Green Car Technology Award, as presented by “Green Car Journal” on Thursday [...]

wolverine
Air/Climate

Climate Change Pushes Wolverine Toward Threatened Species List

February 4, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Pushes Wolverine Toward Threatened Species List

 

DENVER, Colorado, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Under a court-ordered deadline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the North American wolverine as a threatened [...]

whale sushi
Food

California Eatery, Sushi Chefs Indicted for Selling Whale Meat

February 1, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on California Eatery, Sushi Chefs Indicted for Selling Whale Meat

 

LOS ANGELES, California, February 1, 2013 (ENS) – A federal grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment that charges a now-shuttered Santa Monica sushi restaurant and two men [...]

honeybees
Food

EU Prepares to Ban Three Pesticides Harmful to Bees

February 1, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on EU Prepares to Ban Three Pesticides Harmful to Bees

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 1, 2013 (ENS) – Three pesticides that harm bees will be banned from application to flowering crops in Europe as of July 1, under new [...]

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