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Month: May 2015

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Germany’s Autobahn Gets Its 1st Hydrogen Fuel Station

May 31, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Germany’s Autobahn Gets Its 1st Hydrogen Fuel Station

 

BERLIN, Germany, June 1, 2105 (ENS) – Fifty hydrogen filling stations will be open in Germany’s cities and along major roads by the end of this year, says [...]

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AmeriScan 5/29/15: MA Clean Charles; CA Pesticide Suit; WA Toxic ‘Miracle’

May 29, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on AmeriScan 5/29/15: MA Clean Charles; CA Pesticide Suit; WA Toxic ‘Miracle’

 

On 20th Anniversary of Cleanup, EPA Gives Charles River a B+

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 29, 2015 (ENS) – The U.S. EPA today gave the Charles River a grade [...]

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New U.S. Clean Water Rule Clarifies Stream Protections

May 28, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on New U.S. Clean Water Rule Clarifies Stream Protections

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2015 (ENS) – One in three Americans, about 117 million people, get their drinking water from streams that lacked clear protection before a new Clean [...]

dolphins
Latest News

World’s Smallest Dolphins Falling Prey to Extinction

May 27, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on World’s Smallest Dolphins Falling Prey to Extinction

 

SAN DIEGO, California, May 27, 2015 (ENS) – Numbers of the world’s smallest and rarest marine dolphin, New Zealand’s critically endangered Maui’s dolphin, have hit an all time [...]

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Extreme Weather Proves Deadly in Texas, Oklahoma

May 26, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Extreme Weather Proves Deadly in Texas, Oklahoma

 

HOUSTON, Texas, May 26, 2015 (ENS) – Heavy rains, flash floods, hail and high winds pummeled Houston today, severe weather conditions that hit the city Monday night.

Houston [...]

Dooley
Energy

Australia: ‘Road-Ready’ Fuels Made From Waste Plastic

May 26, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Australia: ‘Road-Ready’ Fuels Made From Waste Plastic

 

BERKELEY VALE, New South Wales, Australia, May 26, 2015 (ENS) – Australia’s first commercial-scale plant to convert waste plastics to “road-ready” fuel has produced its first batch.

The [...]

skylark
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Europe’s Species and Habitats: Some Worse, Some Better

May 24, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Europe’s Species and Habitats: Some Worse, Some Better

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 24, 2015 (ENS) – Across Europe, once common farmland birds such as the Eurasian Skylark are declining, and around 17 percent of all bird species [...]

baby
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Toxic Teethers Identified in Lab Tests

May 22, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Toxic Teethers Identified in Lab Tests

 

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 20, 2015 (ENS) – Endocrine disrupting chemicals, which can interfere with the actions of hormones in the body, are present in some plastic teethers for [...]

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$50 Million Federal Dollars Will Ease Historic Drought

May 20, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on $50 Million Federal Dollars Will Ease Historic Drought

 

LOS ANGELES, California, May 20, 2015 (ENS) – The Obama Administration will invest nearly $50 million to improve water efficiency and conservation in California and 11 other western [...]

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At Risk

Burst Pipeline Spills Crude Oil on California Coast

May 20, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Burst Pipeline Spills Crude Oil on California Coast

 

SANTA BARBARA, California, May 20, 2015 (ENS) – Thousands of gallons of black smelly crude oil that spilled from a broken pipeline Tuesday in the California coastal county [...]

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Air/Climate

12 Governments Fight Climate Change With ‘Under 2 MOU’

May 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on 12 Governments Fight Climate Change With ‘Under 2 MOU’

 

SACRAMENTO, California, May 19, 2015 (ENS) – California Governor Jerry Brown today signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with international leaders from 11 other states and provinces, representing more than [...]

ash spill
Energy

Coal Ash Crimes Cost Duke Energy $102 Million

May 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Coal Ash Crimes Cost Duke Energy $102 Million

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2015 (ENS) – Admitting guilt for a massive coal ash spill last year, three subsidiaries of Duke Energy, the largest utility in the United [...]

Pacific storms
At Risk

El Niño 2015 Forecast to ‘Raise Global Temperatures’

May 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on El Niño 2015 Forecast to ‘Raise Global Temperatures’

 

 

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 19, 2015 (ENS) – Weather forecasting centers around the world have now declared that an El Niño, the most powerful fluctuation in Earth’s [...]

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Health

Nanosponges in Disguise Mop Up MRSA Staph Infections

May 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Nanosponges in Disguise Mop Up MRSA Staph Infections

 

SAN DIEGO, California, May 19, 2015 (ENS) – A new gel filled with nanosponges that absorb toxins has proven effective against the “super bug” MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), [...]

cabins
Energy

Hybrid Car Batteries Find New Life at U.S. National Park

May 18, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Hybrid Car Batteries Find New Life at U.S. National Park

 

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, May 18, 2015 (ENS) – The first-ever electricity generating system to use recovered hybrid vehicle batteries for commercial energy storage is up and running at [...]

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RCA Taiwan Ex-Workers Win Pollution Lawsuit

May 18, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on RCA Taiwan Ex-Workers Win Pollution Lawsuit

 

By Shuchen Chang

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 17, 2015 (ENS) – The Taipei District Court has ruled in favor of former assembly line workers employed between 1970 and 1992 [...]

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Mozambique Police Execute Huge Ivory, Rhino Horn Seizure

May 14, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Mozambique Police Execute Huge Ivory, Rhino Horn Seizure

 

MAPUTO, Mozambique, May 14, 2015 (ENS) – In the largest seizure of illicit wildlife products in Mozambique’s history, police Tuesday confiscated some 1.3 metric tonnes of elephant ivory [...]

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At Risk

Another Severe Earthquake Terrifies Nepal

May 12, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Another Severe Earthquake Terrifies Nepal

 

KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 12, 2015 (ENS) – People in Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu had just begun to pick up the pieces after the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that [...]

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Gov/Politics

Saudi King Calls Obama But Stays Home

May 11, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Saudi King Calls Obama But Stays Home

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2015 (ENS) – King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia called President Barack Obama today to express his regret at not being able [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Brazil Pursues Illegal Miners on Indigenous Land

May 11, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Brazil Pursues Illegal Miners on Indigenous Land

 

BRASILIA, Brazil, May 11, 2015 (ENS) – Federal Police officers from the states of Roraima, Rondônia, São Paulo, Amazonas, and Pará were marshaled Thursday to serve 313 warrants [...]

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