AmeriScan
AmeriScan: October 29, 2014
‘Secret’ Decision to Hide Nuclear Plant Quake Risk Challenged … Concerts Aim to Turn Out Youth Vote for Climate … U.S. Enters the ‘Age of Renewable Energy’ … New [...]
Month: October 2014
Latest News
African Lion ‘Threatened’ Listing Proposed Under U.S. Law
WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2014 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed listing the African lion as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, saying its [...]
Business
Kazakhstan Plans Electromobility, Future Energy Expo 2017
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 27, 2014 (ENS) – The Kazakhstan government would like to explore collaborating with Japan to manufacture hybrid and electric vehicles, Prime Minister Karim Massimov said this [...]
At Risk
Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses Promised by Early 2015
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2014 (ENS) – At a high-level emergency meeting convened by the World Health Organization on Thursday, pharmaceutical companies developing Ebola vaccines committed to accelerate [...]
At Risk
Ebola Jumps Around the World
NEW YORK, New York, October 24, 2014 (ENS) – The worst Ebola outbreak in history, which began in West Africa in March, is traveling around the world. On Thursday, [...]
Land Use/Forests
President Obama Designates San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
WASHINGTON, DC, October 21, 2014 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has used his authority under the Antiquities Act to establish 540 square miles of national forest land in [...]
Latest News
California, Japan Charge Ahead With Electric Vehicle Pilot
SACRAMENTO, California, October 21, 2014 (ENS) – The California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization have [...]
Business
187 Companies Make ‘The A List’ for Climate Performance
LONDON, UK, October 20, 2014 (ENS) – The new “A List” of leading climate performance businesses from around the world, released Friday by the Climate Disclosure Project, numbers [...]
Latest News
Cameroon Creates a Sanctuary for World’s Rarest Ape
BUEA, Cameroon, October 19, 2014 (ENS) – Cross River gorillas, the world’s rarest apes, have a newly protected area that will better enable these unique primates to survive as a [...]
Food
Family Farmers Take Center Stage on World Food Day
ROME, Italy, October 16, 2014 (ENS) – “We have made progress against hunger, but over 800 million people remain undernourished,” said José Graziano da Silva today. As head [...]
Latest News
Major Incentives for Electric Cars Offered in 20 U.S. States
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, October 15, 2014 (ENS) – JEA, a community-owned, not-for-profit utility in Jacksonville, is the latest entity to offer rebates for plug-in electric vehicles. JEA is offering [...]
Latest News
Half Earth’s Wildlife Gone, Governments Meet to Save the Rest
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, October 14, 2014 (ENS) – Global wildlife populations have declined, on average, by 52 percent in the 40 year period since 1970, reports the global [...]
AmeriScan
AmeriScan: October 14, 2014
Los Angeles Mayor Orders Water Use Halved in 10 Years … Conservationists Go to Court to Protect Wolverine … Sagebrush Wildlife Losing Habitat to Fire … Tribal Sellers of [...]
Latest News
Battery/Fuel Cell Zero-Emission Bus a North American First
PASADENA, California, October 14, 2014 (ENS) – A 60-foot-long articulated bus scheduled for roll-out in mid-2015 will be the first in North America to be powered by a [...]
Air/Climate
France Prepares to Lead the World in Low-Carbon Sustainablity
PARIS, France, October 13, 2014 (ENS) – This past weekend Région Ile-de-France hosted the first World Summit of Regions for Climate on October 10 and 11 in Paris [...]
Air/Climate
Huge U.S. Methane ‘Hot Spot’ Detected From Space
PASADENA, California, October 10, 2014 (ENS) – Just one location in the U.S. Southwest is responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over [...]
Food
Consumer Reports Seeks Labeling of GMOs in U.S. Food
YONKERS, New York, October 7, 2014 (ENS) – U.S. packaged foods containing corn or soy and labeled “natural” sampled by the product testing group Consumer Reports were found [...]
Air/Climate
Human CO2 Emissions Blocking California’s Normal Rainfall
STANFORD, California, October 6, 2014 (ENS) – The ‘Ridiculously Resilient Ridge’ formed by human-caused climate change has left California crippled by a withering record drought while diverting life-giving [...]
Land Use/Forests
New Dam Causing Ripples in Northern Kenya
By Robert Wanjala
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 6, 2014 (ENS) – Wario Galelo, 64, raises livestock downstream from the site of a hydroelectric dam which the Kenyan government plans [...]
Latest News
October in Johannesburg Means Ecomobility
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 6, 2014 (ENS) – Ecomobility – an integrated form of mobility that combines walking and cycling with riding public transit – is the focus [...]