Land Use/Forests
U.S. Marines Plan to Destroy Another Island
By Michael Hadfield
HONOLULU, Hawaii, August 19, 2013 (ENS) – Another beautiful and valuable Pacific island has been selected by the U.S. Marines as a site for “live fire [...]
Month: August 2013
Energy
Solar Panels to Be Placed on White House Roof
WASHINGTON, DC, August 19, 2013 (ENS) – Solar panels are being installed on the roof of the White House this week, three years after the Obama Administration first [...]
Energy
Ecuador Allows Oil Drilling in Yasuni National Park
QUITO, Ecuador, August 16, 2013 (ENS) – Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has approved oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, signaling the collapse of an innovative trust fund that [...]
Food
EPA Debuts Bee-Protective Pesticide Labels, Enviros Demand More
WASHINGTON, DC, August 16, 2013 (ENS) – To protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some [...]
Latest News
Smithsonian Scientist Identifies New Mammal: the Olinguito
WASHINGTON, DC, August 15, 2013 (ENS) – The first new carnivore species to be identified in the American continents in 35 years was introduced to the public today [...]
Business
Google Cuts Carbon Footprint But Funds Climate Change Deniers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, August 15, 2013 (ENS) – Google’s self-confessed obsession with building energy efficient data centers and buying renewable energy has paid off. The search engine giant [...]
Air/Climate
Canadians Warn Obama: Don’t Trust Harper’s Tar Sands Rhetoric
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 2013 (ENS) – Production of heavy crude oil from the Alberta tar sands is Canada’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, and [...]
Latest News
Apes Can Swim and Dive
BERN, Switzerland, August 14, 2013 (ENS) – A husband and wife research team has provided the first video-based observation of apes that can swim and dive. Instead of [...]
Energy
Court Forces Yucca Mtn. Decision on U.S. Nuclear Regulators
WASHINGTON, DC, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – A federal appeals court ruled today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can no longer delay a decision on whether or not [...]
Energy
World Bank Funds Hydro Dam for Africa’s Great Lakes Region
WASHINGTON, DC, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – The World Bank has approved US$340 million for the long-planned Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project, which will generate power for residents [...]
Latest News
San Francisco Bay Area Gears Up for Bike Sharing
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – The Bay Area Bike Share pilot program will go live on August 29 with 700 bikes at 70 stations in [...]
At Risk
Update: Petron Admits to Oil Spill in Manila Bay
MANILA, Philippines, August 12, 2013 (ENS) – Petron Corporation has acknowledged its pipeline in Cavite Province leaked half a million liters of diesel fuel into Manila Bay which [...]
Air/Climate
Interpol Targets Criminals Who Subvert Carbon Markets
LYON, France, August 12, 2013 (ENS) – Securities fraud, insider trading, embezzlement, money laundering and cybercrime – the intangible nature of the global carbon trading markets puts them [...]
At Risk
Fukushima’s Radioactive Leaks to the Pacific Alarm Japan
TOKYO, Japan, August 10, 2013 (ENS) – Radioactive groundwater leaks from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are increasing every day, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has [...]
Land Use/Forests
U.S. Palm Oil Plantation Endangers Chimps in Cameroon
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – Endangered chimpanzees, other primates and forest elephants could lose stretches of their habitat in Cameroon if a U.S. company’s [...]
Energy
Canada Funds Algal Biorefinery to Convert Tar Sands Emissions
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in [...]
Latest News
U.S. East Coast Dolphin Die-Off Triggers Investigation
GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – So many dead bottlenose dolphins are washing up on the Mid-Atlantic coast from New York to Maryland that federal government scientists have [...]
Land Use/Forests
New Zealand Court Opens Denniston Plateau to Coal Mining
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – New Zealand environmentalists have lost another round in their long-running battle to keep coal mining from destroying conservation land on [...]
Latest News
Uncertain Funding Jeopardizes U.S. Land Imaging Satellites
WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – Landsat satellites orbiting the Earth have continuously recorded changes to the planet’s land surfaces for 40 years, but while it is [...]
Air/Climate
Earth Sizzled in Record Heat Last Year, Meteorologists Report
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 7, 2013 (ENS) – Across the United States, 2012 was the warmest year on record, and globally, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years [...]