SYDNEY, Australia, March 25, 2013 (ENS) – This year for the first time, Russia’s Kremlin switched off the lights for Earth Hour, a global environmental initiative of WWF held at 8:30 on Saturday night, joining more than 7,000 cities, towns and municipalities in over 150 countries and territories. […]
NEW YORK, New York, March 25 2013 (ENS) – Film star Ezra Miller will ski to the North Pole in early April to plant a “flag for the future” on the seabed, as part of a Greenpeace international campaign to protect the Arctic from industrial development. […]
NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2013 (ENS) – “Water is central to the wellbeing of people and the planet,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said in his video message for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. “We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource.” […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 22, 2013 (ENS) – Sometime before the end of March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose new national vehicle emissions and fuel standards by updating a program called Tier 3. […]
ROME, Italy, March 22, 2013 (ENS) – On the first International Day of Forests, celebrated Thursday by the United Nations, Jose Graziano da Silva proposed that all countries support a Zero Illegal Deforestation target. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, March 21, 2013 (ENS) – Low-income, racial and ethnic minority populations in California are exposed to greater levels of air pollutants than higher-income, Caucasian populations. New research shows that.as a result they suffer more asthma-related difficulties. […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, March 21, 2013 (ENS) – Patients with implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators can safely drive or ride in an electric car without risk of electromagnetic interference, a Mayo Clinic study has concluded. […]
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 21, 2013 (ENS) – The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is lodging a second complaint with the Netherlands Public Prosecutor’s Office for serious fraud and environmental crime against the Japanese whaling fleet. […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 21, 2013 (ENS) – The 1,800 year old fossil of a blue whale found on Sao Paulo’s southern coast may help prevent the extinction of the blue whales that remain today after a century of commercial whaling. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2013 (ENS) – Over the past four years, the state of America’s infrastructure has improved from a grade of D to D+ but a spending shortfall of $1.6 trillion is anticipated by 2020, the American Society of Civil Engineers warns in its new report card. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 20, 2013 (ENS) – Sea Shepherd Australia this morning welcomed to Melbourne its three ships and 110 crewmembers after their campaign defending whales in the Southern Ocean against Japanese “research” whalers. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 19, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday urged creation of what would be the world’s largest marine reserve in Antarctica and better safeguards for all oceans. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 19, 2013 (ENS) – By the year 2050 – in less than 37 years – the United States could cut petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for cars and small trucks, finds a new National Research Council report released Monday. […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 18, 2013 (ENS) – Argentina has established two large marine protected areas in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz that the government says will “maintain representative samples of the marine ecosystem,” and “protect the landscape heritage, natural and cultural.” […]
TOKYO, Japan, March 18, 2013 (ENS) – A power blackout occurred today at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. […]
ARGONNE, Illinois, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – President Barack Obama today again called on Congress to establish a new $2 billion Energy Security Trust for investments in research that will make the vehicle and fuel technologies of the future cheaper and better. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – Hunters and anglers from across the United States are concerned about the impact of climate change on wildlife and natural resources and also on the U.S. hunting and angling economy, worth roughly $120 billion a year. […]
GAINESVILLE, Florida, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – A new genus and species of extinct saber-toothed cat that lived five million years ago in what is now Polk County, Florida, has been identified based on fossils of the animal found over the past 25 years. […]
TOKYO, Japan, March 15, 2013 (ENS) – Honda has established the world’s first process to reuse rare earth metals extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries to make new batteries for hybrid vehicles. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2013 (ENS) – “Shell screwed up in 2012 and we’re not going to let them screw up when they try to drill in the Arctic again,” Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told reporters today, releasing the findings of a departmental review of Shell Oil’s 2012 Arctic operations. […]
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