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World Court Orders Japan to End Antarctic Whaling
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, March 31, 2014 (ENS) – The UN’s International Court of Justice today ruled that Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic is not for scientific purposes [...]
Month: March 2014
Air/Climate
IPCC: Global Warming Impacts May Be ‘Irreversible’
YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 31, 2014 (ENS) – The effects of climate change are “already occurring on all continents and across the oceans,” yet the world is “ill-prepared for [...]
Air/Climate
IPCC Report: Climate Risks Grow As Earth’s Temperature Rises
YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 28, 2014 (ENS) – Fast-rising sea levels, declining fisheries, more air pollution and an ice-free Arctic summer are projected by scientists and government representatives from [...]
AmeriScan
AmeriScan: Mar. 28, 2014
Cutting Methane Emissions, BP Whiting Refinery Spill, Exxon Valdez Lawsuit, Hanford Workers Sick, Fracking-Conservation Balance, Ford Workers Charge EVs for Free
Obama’s New Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions … [...]
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Earth Hour Wave of Darkness Set to Sweep Across The World
SINGAPORE, March 27, 2014 (ENS) – On Saturday, March 29, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time, darkness will fall over the Earth in a revolving wave as people [...]
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Australia, U.S. Collaborate to Restore Wild Tasmanian Devils
SYDNEY, Australia, March 27, 2014 (ENS) – An American zoo is partnering with an Australian university to save the endangered Tasmanian devil in the wild, in the first [...]
At Risk
Houston Ship Channel Re-opens After Oil Spill
TEXAS CITY, Texas, March 26, 2014 (ENS) – For the first time since the collision of a bulk carrier and a barge Saturday spilled 168,000 gallons of oil [...]
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Cities in Spain, Slovenia Win Sustainable Mobility Awards
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 26, 2014 (ENS) – At an award ceremony Monday in Brussels, the European Commission honored the Spanish municipality of Rivas-Vaciamadrid with the Sustainable Urban Mobility [...]
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Draft Rule Clarifies Protection for U.S. Streams, Wetlands
WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2014 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today jointly released a draft rule to clarify protection for [...]
Air/Climate
Dirty Air Kills 7 Million People a Year: World Health Org
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 25, 2014 (ENS) – Breathing polluted air claimed the lives of some seven million people in 2012, the World Health Organization reports in new estimates [...]
Air/Climate
Air Pollution Data Used to Manage Traffic Flows
LEICESTER, UK, March 25, 2014 (ENS) – Phasing traffic lights according to air pollution rates at the scale of a European city district could soon become a reality. [...]
AmeriScan
AmeriScan: Mar. 24, 2014
Deadly Washington Mudslide, Hanford Nuclear Leak, EPA Wins Mountaintop Mining Case, New Pesticide Cyantraniliprole, Ocean Tidal Power, Wooden High-Rise Buildings
Landslide in Washington State Claims 14 Lives … Feds [...]
Air/Climate
ExxonMobil Agrees to Report Carbon Stranded Asset Risk
NEW YORK, New York, March 24, 2014 (ENS) – In response to a shareholder resolution, ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. energy company, for the first time has agreed to [...]
Energy
Activists Scale ExxonMobil Rig 25 Years After Exxon Valdez Spill
ØLEN, Norway, March 24, 2014 (ENS) – Today, on the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, Greenpeace climbers mounted a protest in Norway against [...]
At Risk
Oil Spill From Ship-Barge Crash Closes Houston Ship Channel
HOUSTON, Texas, March 23, 2104 (ENS) – A major oil spill Saturday has closed the Houston Ship Channel, preventing over 60 vessels, including three cruise ships, from transiting [...]
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Voluntary Stewardship Pact Protects Threatened Sargasso Sea
HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 21, 2014 (ENS) – For the first time, the world’s only sea without coasts will be protected from the harmful effects of pollution, ship traffic, [...]
Energy
Loss of Crimea Changes Ukraine’s Energy Picture: Robert Bensh
KIEV, Ukraine, March 21, 2014 – Energy and energy security expert Robert Bensh explains how Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula will shape the oil and gas industry [...]
Air/Climate
Obama Opens Vast Climate Data Resources to Public Use
WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2014 (ENS) – The White House, federal agencies and private partners Wednesday unveiled the Climate Data Initiative, a project that gives local leaders across the [...]
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Japanese Whalers Depart Southern Ocean Sanctuary for the Year
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 19, 2014 (ENS) – The Japanese whaling fleet has left the waters of the Antarctic Treaty Zone, ending whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary [...]
At Risk
Broken Pipeline Spills Oil in Ohio Nature Park
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio, March 19, 2014 (ENS) – Hazmat crews are cleaning up about 10,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled from a broken underground pipeline into an [...]