By Jenny Denton
MELBOURNE, Australia, October 18, 2013 (ENS) – Swedish pension fund authorities have followed the lead of counterparts in Norway and New Zealand in divesting all [...]
ROCHESTER, New York, October 18, 2013 (ENS) – Sleep clears the brain of toxins that have accumulated in the body during waking hours, American scientists have demonstrated for [...]
LYON, France, October 17, 2013 (ENS) – Outdoor air pollution “causes lung cancer” and increases the risk of bladder cancer, the specialized cancer agency of the World Health [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2013 (ENS) – In a public opinion poll released today, almost two-thirds of Americans said they opposed the near shutdown of the U.S. Environmental [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will review an appeals court ruling that unanimously upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2013 (ENS) – A compound derived from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale can protect rats and mice from lethal doses [...]
DAEGU, South Korea, October 16, 2013 (ENS) – South Korean President Park Geun Hye told world energy leaders today that increased international cooperation is needed to solve a [...]
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 16, 2013 (ENS) – Ford Motor Co., the state of Michigan and the University of Michigan are teaming up to establish a unique $8 [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 15, 2013 (ENS) – Cycling along on his rocket trike, an anti-tar sands pipeline activist Monday left Cleveland heading for the White House to deliver [...]
IRVINE, California, October 14, 2013 (ENS) – Collegiate teams from Austria, Las Vegas and Czech Republic took the top three spots in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar [...]
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 14, 2013 (ENS) – The first-year results of a University of Michigan sustainability awareness and behaviors evaluation released today shows that while students, faculty [...]
DELHI, India, October 14, 2013 (ENS) – Cyclone Phailin is weakening today after it made landfall on the coast of eastern India late Saturday, yet heavy rains are [...]
CRESCENTINO, Italy, October 14, 2013 (ENS) – The world’s first commercial-scale refinery to produce bioethanol from agricultural residues and energy crops has opened in northern Italy. When fully [...]
OSLO, Norway, October 11, 2013 (ENS) – The Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 goes to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for its extensive efforts to [...]
KRASNODAR, Russia, October 10, 2013 (ENS) – Police from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs today attempted to arrest the coordinator of Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus, after [...]
KUMAMOTO, Japan, October 10, 2013 (ENS) – Japan, where residents of Minamata suffered lethal mercury poisoning in the mid-1950s, today became one of the first countries to sign [...]
By David Dudenhoefer
QUITO, Ecuador, October 9, 2013 (ENS) – Decisions in two branches of Ecuador’s government have set the stage for a final battle over oil extraction [...]
By Narges Bajoghli
NEW YORK, New York, October 9, 2013 (ENS) – This past summer, I sat in a small conference room in central Tehran with a group [...]
SAN DIEGO, California, October 9, 2013 (ENS) – The first public EV charging station in the United States that supports all models of electric vehicles has opened in [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, October 8, 2013 (ENS) – Target Corporation, the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, Monday debuted a new sustainability standard for the household cleaners, personal [...]
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