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UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress

May 31, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on UN Panel: Environmental Protection Key to Post-2015 Progress

 

NEW YORK, New York, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level [...]

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Land Use/Forests

National Trails System Expands by 28 Trails in 18 States

May 31, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on National Trails System Expands by 28 Trails in 18 States

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Federal officials today designated 28 trails as national recreation trails, adding roughly 650 miles of trails in 18 states to the [...]

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Feds Must Analyze Oil Spill Dispersant Effects on Wildlife

May 30, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Feds Must Analyze Oil Spill Dispersant Effects on Wildlife

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government must analyze the effects of the California Dispersants Plan to determine whether the chemicals that break up [...]

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UN Warns of Global Shift ‘From a Fish to a Jellyfish Ocean’

May 30, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on UN Warns of Global Shift ‘From a Fish to a Jellyfish Ocean’

 

ROME, Italy, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – Jumps in jellyfish populations following overfishing is one reason why fish in the Mediterranean and Black seas are declining, finds a [...]

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Energy

Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant

May 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Southern California Edison’s statements [...]

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EPA Limits Formaldehyde Exposure From Wood Products

May 29, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on EPA Limits Formaldehyde Exposure From Wood Products

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – Giving expression to a law unanimously passed by Congress in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed two rules to [...]

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Business

Guilty of Pesticide Crimes, Wal-Mart Fined $81 Million

May 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Guilty of Pesticide Crimes, Wal-Mart Fined $81 Million

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores today pleaded guilty to illegally handling and disposing of hazardous pesticides at its retail stores across the [...]

Angela Merkel
Latest News

Harmonized Charging Key to Global Electric Mobility

May 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Harmonized Charging Key to Global Electric Mobility

 

BERLIN, Germany, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Chancellor Angela Merkel restated her goal of putting one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020 at a two-day conference [...]

Hurricane Sandy
At Risk

‘Extremely Active’ 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted

May 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on ‘Extremely Active’ 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – The United States should prepare for an “active or extremely active hurricane season” this year, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center says in [...]

Moniz, Poneman
Air/Climate

Tesla Repays $465M Loan to New U.S. Energy Secretary

May 28, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Tesla Repays $465M Loan to New U.S. Energy Secretary

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 27, 2013 (ENS) – On Wednesday, the day after Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Energy, electric automaker Tesla Motors [...]

Everest
Air/Climate

Mount Everest Glaciers Shrinking

May 26, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Mount Everest Glaciers Shrinking

 

MILAN, Italy, May 26, 2013 (ENS) – Glaciers in the Mount Everest region of the Himalayas have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the [...]

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Food

U.S. Senate Bars GMO Labels as March Against Monsanto Revs Up

May 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Senate Bars GMO Labels as March Against Monsanto Revs Up

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Two days before thousands of people across the United States plan to march against Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops, the U.S. Senate [...]

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Air/Climate

Beijing’s Goal: 50,000 Electric Vehicles by 2015

May 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Beijing’s Goal: 50,000 Electric Vehicles by 2015

 

BEIJING, China, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – The City of Beijing plans to have 50,000 electric cars on the streets by 2015, 30,000 of which will be owned [...]

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At Risk

EPA Employees on Furlough for ‘Don’t Fry Day’

May 24, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on EPA Employees on Furlough for ‘Don’t Fry Day’

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Most of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 17,700 employees are on furlough today to meet the budget requirements of the sequester, [...]

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Air/Climate

Global Scientists, California Governor Call for Climate Action

May 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Global Scientists, California Governor Call for Climate Action

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Warning that Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point at which human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to [...]

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U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating

May 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating

 

RESTON, Virginia, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Aquifers across the United States are being drawn down at an increasing pace, finds a new study released today by the [...]

Chapa Dara
Land Use/Forests

Mountains of Wealth in Afghanistan

May 23, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Mountains of Wealth in Afghanistan

 

By Zabihullah Ghazi

ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Illegal and risky it may be, but mining for gemstones is an irresistible way of earning a living [...]

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RSS

Act to Stop ‘Climate Deniers’ From Winning the Information War

May 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Act to Stop ‘Climate Deniers’ From Winning the Information War

 

By Nick Fillmore

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Australia OKs Mine on World Heritage Quality Cape York

May 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Australia OKs Mine on World Heritage Quality Cape York

 

CANBERRA, Australia, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Rio Tinto Alcan’s new South of Embley bauxite mine on Cape York, the Queensland [...]

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Public Employees Sue Over ‘Political Deals’ Behind Wolf Delisting

May 22, 2013 News Editor Comments Off on Public Employees Sue Over ‘Political Deals’ Behind Wolf Delisting

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The Obama Administration’s plan to remove the gray wolf from the protections of the Endangered Species Act, as detailed in a [...]

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