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Month: March 2015

trees
Air/Climate

Earth’s Green Cover Increasing Despite Deforestation

March 30, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Earth’s Green Cover Increasing Despite Deforestation

 

SYDNEY, Australia, March 31, 2015 (ENS) – China’s large-scale tree planting efforts and increasing rainfall on three continents have contributed to an increase in the total amount of [...]

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Latest News

Indonesia’s ‘National Car’ Will be an Electric Car

March 30, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Indonesia’s ‘National Car’ Will be an Electric Car

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 31, 2015 (ENS) – Indonesia plans to develop and manufacture an electric car as the country’s “national car” according to Research, Technology and High Educational [...]

candles
Air/Climate

Earth Hour Lights Out Inspires Climate Action

March 27, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Hour Lights Out Inspires Climate Action

 

SINGAPORE, March 27, 2015 (ENS) – Bearing the message “use your power to change climate change” WWF’s Earth Hour is motivating people to turn out their lights for [...]

lion
Latest News

Australia Bans Lion Hunting Trophy Imports

March 27, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Australia Bans Lion Hunting Trophy Imports

 

CANBERRA, Australia, March 27, 2015 (ENS) – The Australian Government is taking action to protect African lions from what Environment Minister Greg Hunt called “the barbaric practice of [...]

test spray
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Common Herbicide Glyphosate a ‘Probable Human Carcinogen’

March 26, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Common Herbicide Glyphosate a ‘Probable Human Carcinogen’

 

LYON, France, March 26, 2015 (ENS) – Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, has been classified as a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research [...]

vaccination
At Risk

Two Ebola Vaccines Test Safe in Liberia

March 26, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Two Ebola Vaccines Test Safe in Liberia

 

BETHESDA, Maryland, March 26, 2015 (ENS) – Two experimental Ebola vaccines appear to be safe based on their evaluation in more than 600 volunteers who participated in the [...]

Guinean women
At Risk

First Ebola Vaccine Test Starts in Guinea

March 26, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on First Ebola Vaccine Test Starts in Guinea

 

CONAKRY, Guinea, March 26, 2015 (ENS) – One year after the current outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa that has claimed more than 10,000 lives, the [...]

driverless
Latest News

First U.S. Coast-to-Coast Driverless Trip Underway

March 25, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on First U.S. Coast-to-Coast Driverless Trip Underway

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 25, 2015 (ENS) – Delphi Automotive is sending a compact luxury SUV, the Audi Q5, on the longest automated drive ever attempted in North [...]

planting tree
Land Use/Forests

Global Forest Restoration Goal Grows

March 24, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Global Forest Restoration Goal Grows

 

BONN, Germany, March 23, 2015 (ENS) – New forest restoration initiatives were announced by Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa at the second international Bonn Challenge conference on [...]

Congress
Air/Climate

Obama Vows to Cut Federal Greenhouse Gases 40 Percent

March 23, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Vows to Cut Federal Greenhouse Gases 40 Percent

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 22, 2015 (ENS) – President Barack Obama is using his executive authority to control the climate-warming greenhouse gases emitted by operations of the federal government. [...]

officials
At Risk

Governments Agree Global Disaster Risk Reduction Plan

March 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Governments Agree Global Disaster Risk Reduction Plan

SENDAI, Japan, March 19, 2015 (ENS) – Death, injury, displacement and destruction following natural disasters could be reduced by 2030 under a new framework adopted by countries attending the [...]

9/11
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U.S. EPA Forced to Review Toxic Dust Limits

March 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. EPA Forced to Review Toxic Dust Limits

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2015 (ENS) – A chemist with the U.S. EPA who protested for years that the agency’s toxic dust standard is scientifically inaccurate and jeopardized [...]

family
At Risk

Disaster Risk Reduction Meeting Jolted by Cyclone Pam

March 17, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Disaster Risk Reduction Meeting Jolted by Cyclone Pam

 

SENDAI, Japan, March 17, 2015 (ENS) – Cyclone Pam devastated the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu just as UN officials and insurers gathered in Japan this week for [...]

Vanuatu
At Risk

Cyclone Pam Slams Vanuatu, Killing 24 People

March 16, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Cyclone Pam Slams Vanuatu, Killing 24 People

 

SYDNEY, Australia, March 16, 2015 (ENS) – At least 24 people lost their lives as Cyclone Pam blasted through the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu Friday night, UN [...]

hummingbird
Latest News

Pollinating Birds, Mammals Falling Victim to Extinction

March 13, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Pollinating Birds, Mammals Falling Victim to Extinction

 

GLAND, Switzerland, March 13, 2015 (ENS) – It’s not just bees, the world is losing its pollinating birds and mammals, new research shows. More pollinating bird and mammal [...]

Sutton
Energy

Duke Energy Hit With Record $25 Million Coal Ash Fine

March 12, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Duke Energy Hit With Record $25 Million Coal Ash Fine

 

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 12, 2015 (ENS) – North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources has handed Duke Energy Progress a record penalty for environmental damages. The [...]

elephants
Latest News

Malawi Could Be Next to Torch Ivory Stockpile

March 12, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Malawi Could Be Next to Torch Ivory Stockpile

 

By Charles Mkoka

LILONGWE, Malawi, March 12, 2015 (ENS) – Tens of thousands of elephants are killed each year by wildlife criminals for their ivory. Kenya commemorated World [...]

trucks
Latest News

U.S. Heavy Duty Trucks Could Cut Fuel Use 40 Percent: Study

March 12, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Heavy Duty Trucks Could Cut Fuel Use 40 Percent: Study

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2015 (ENS) – When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announce a new heavy-duty truck fuel efficiency standard this [...]

trucks
Latest News

EU Parliament Approves New Rules for Safer, Greener Lorries

March 11, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on EU Parliament Approves New Rules for Safer, Greener Lorries

 

STRASBOURG, France, March 11, 2015 (ENS) – The European Parliament Tuesday gave its final approval to new EU rules for safer and more eco-friendly lorries, the long-haul tractor-trailors [...]

solar plane
Energy

Swiss Plane Begins World’s First Solar Circumnavigation

March 11, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Swiss Plane Begins World’s First Solar Circumnavigation

 

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, March 10, 2015 (ENS) – Two Swiss pilots have begun the first-ever attempt to fly around the Earth in a plane powered only [...]

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