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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 [...]
Month: May 2015
AmeriScan
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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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
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Health
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), [...]
Energy
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
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
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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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 [...]
Gov/Politics
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]