SEATTLE, Washington, January 15, 2014 (ENS) – Proposed large-scale mining in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed would pose risks to the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery and Alaska Native cultures dependent on salmon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concludes in its final Bristol Bay Assessment released today. […]
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK, January 15, 2014 (ENS) – A massive ancient subglacial trough, deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States, has been discovered far beneath the ice of West Antarctica. A team of UK experts charted the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, a mountain range buried beneath several kilometers of ice […]
Court Upholds Multi-Billion Dollar BP Settlement … Boxer Spearheads Senate Climate Action Task Force … New York State Prepares for Future Superstorms … RGGI States Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants … Poll: Latino Voters Reject West Coast Coal Exports to China […]
DETROIT, Michigan, January 14, 2014 (ENS) – The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) opened in Detroit’s Cobo Center Monday for the first of two press days. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx opened the exhibit, calling it “a real honor to help kick off the North American International Auto Show this morning in the auto capital of the world, Detroit.” […]
CAMBRIDGE, UK, January 13, 2014 (ENS) – More than 3,300 ivory pieces and nearly 50 raw ivory elephant tusks were found openly for sale in the Myanmar (Burmese) town of Mong La on the Chinese border, according to undercover investigators from the Cambridge-based wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and Oxford Brookes University. […]
DAMASCUS, Syria, January 13, 2014 (ENS) – Fuel shortages are adding to the hardships caused by conflict and freezing temperatures across Syria. Forty-five-year-old Abu Khaled’s three sons stand in a long line on a cold December day in front of a petrol station in Qudsaya outside Damascus, hoping their combined efforts might get them enough diesel for heating. […]
MEULABOH DISTRICT, Aceh, Indonesia, January 12, 2014 (ENS) – An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa peat forest, which lies within Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans live together in the wild. […]
CORVALLIS, Oregon, January 10, 2014 (ENS) – The decline of large predators such as lions, leopards, wolves, otters, and bears is changing landscapes from the tropics to the Arctic, finds a new study from scientists in the United States, Australia, Italy and Sweden. […]
West Virginia Coal Chemical Spill Pollutes Drinking Water … Texas Court Demands TransCanada Respond to Eminent Domain Appeal … Fossil-Filled Lands Added to Petrified Forest National Park … Court Allows Motorized Vehicles in Custer National Forest … Colorado Outfitter Charged With Illegal Capture, Maiming of Big Cats … Red Tides Kill Hundreds of Florida’s Endangered Manatees … EPA Selects State Capitals for Green Design Aid […]
LONDON, UK, January 9, 2014 (ENS) – The River Thames continues to rise in response to recent heavy rainfall, and the south of England should be prepared for further flooding this week from groundwater and rivers, warns the UK Environment Agency. Prime Minister David Cameron Wednesday told Parliament he now believes climate change is to blame. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2014 (ENS) – The Obama Administration has approved extension of International Space Station operations to at least 2024 from its current deadline of 2020. The announcement comes as more than 30 heads of space agencies from around the world gathered in Washington for an unprecedented summit on the future of space exploration. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, January 8, 2014 (ENS) – Five environmental groups are taking the Government of Canada to court today claiming that it has failed to meet its legal responsibilities under the Species at Risk Act to protect endangered wildlife threatened by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tanker route. […]
PLASTER ROCK, New Brunswick, Canada, January 8, 2014 (ENS) – A Canadian National Railway train carrying crude oil and propane is still burning after it derailed and broke into flames Tuesday evening near a village in northwestern New Brunswick. […]
Icy Cold a Bird Killer … EPA Proposes Strict Air Standards for New Woodstoves … Renewable Energy Tax Credits Expire … Public Comments Invited on 2,4-D Tolerant Corn, Soybeans … Army Corps Recommends Barrier Between Great Lakes, Mississippi … Court Allows Railroad Coal Dust Lawsuit to Proceed … EPA Justified in Texas Fracking Drinking Water Controversy […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2014 (ENS) – A frigid, arctic air mass known as the “polar vortex” will continue to bring dangerous, life-threatening low temperatures and wind chills to parts of the central and eastern United States and southern Canada on Tuesday. […]
CORVALLIS, Oregon, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – Newly identified compounds produced by chemical reactions in vehicle exhaust or by grilling meat are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their cancer-causing parent compounds, according to scientists at Oregon State and three other universities. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – On Sunday, the Sea Shepherd whale defense fleet located all five vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet, including the Japanese factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, killing whales inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Late Monday, after a 360-mile chase, the Sea Shepherd fleet drove the whalers from the Antarctic Treaty Zone. […]
DONGGUAN, Guangdong, China, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – To protect elephants from ivory poachers by destroying the black market value of their tusks, the Chinese government today conducted the country’s the first public ivory crush. […]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, January 3, 2014 (ENS) – The International CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show and held annually in Las Vegas in early January, never used to be about automobiles. Instead, it was solely about electronic devices – TVs, computers, game boxes, home theaters and sound systems. But not this year.
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SAN DIEGO, California, January 3, 2014 (ENS) – Seventy-one U.S. Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are filing suit against the Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, after they were allegedly exposed to radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when they arrived in Japan with aid. […]
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