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HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 31,2015 (ENS) – The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri said today. In...
NEW YORK, New York, July 30, 2015 (ENS) – Recognizing that wild animals and plants are an “irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the Earth,” the UN General Assembly today urged its Member States to prevent, combat...
PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30, 2015 (ENS) – Greenpeace activists who rappelled from the St. John’s Bridge in Portland and hung there overnight, today blocked Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling support icebreaker, the MSV Fennica, as...
GLAND, Switzerland, July 29, 2015 (ENS) – Today is Global Tiger Day, and across the world people are pausing to recognize that 97 percent of all wild tigers disappeared during the 20th century, when numbers dropped from about 100,000...
WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2015 (ENS) – Thirteen of America’s largest companies Monday pledged to invest a total of more than $140 billion to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, increase their use of renewable energy and shrink...
PARIS, France, July 28, 2015 (ENS) – Seeking clarity and stability, six large oil and gas companies based in Europe are calling on all world governments and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, to introduce...
PORTLAND, Oregon, July 28, 2015 (ENS) – Traveling in kayaks, climate change and environmental activists are surrounding the Shell Arctic drilling support ship Fennica in Portland harbor to keep it from leaving for the drilling site...
LIVERMORE, California, July 27, 2015 (ENS) – The world’s largest hydrogen fueling station is in the works for San Francisco. Plans call for it to serve fuel cell electric cars, buses and fleet vehicles in addition to a high-speed...
NEW YORK, New York, July 26, 2015 (ENS) – Leading climate scientist and activist James Hansen is warning that the 2 degree Celsius limit to Earth’s temperature rise agreed by world leaders is “highly dangerous.”...
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 26, 2015 (ENS) – President Barack Obama is proposing to forbid the sale of “virtually all ivory across state lines” in the United States. During his first visit as president to his father’s...
VATICAN CITY, July 23, 2015 (ENS) – Climate change is real, it is caused by human activities and humans have a responsiblity to control it, mayors from around the world declared Tuesday during a meeting at the Vatican convened by...
NEW YORK, New York, July 23, 2015 (ENS) – “As part of a whirlwind stay in New York City,” blogged U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Wednesday morning, “I was fortunate to find people who understand that...
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 20, 2015 (ENS) – The Australian government has set new targets to protect and recover threatened mammals, birds and plants, and improve recovery practices under the nation’s first Threatened Species...
OSLO, Norway, July 19, 2015 (ENS) – The five states that surround the central Arctic Ocean on Thursday signed a declaration to prevent unregulated commercial fishing on the high seas of the 1.1 million-square-mile so-called “donut...
WASHINGTON, DC, July 17, 2015 (ENS) – The year 2014 was Earth’s warmest year on record, a new international report confirms. The facts are found in the 26th annual State of the Climate in 2014 report released online Thursday...
NJ VIANEN, The Netherlands, July 17, 2015 (ENS) – KWS Infra, the biggest road builder in the Netherlands, is developing a plastic road that will utilize waste plastic like discarded water bottles. “As far as we know, we are...
WASHINGTON, DC, July 16, 2015 (ENS) – New national regulations to prevent or minimize the impacts of coal mining on surface water, groundwater, fish and wildlife were proposed today by the Obama Administration. The Stream Protection...
BRUSSELS. Belgium, July 15, 2015 (ENS) – The European Parliament Environment Committee today agreed on tougher new national caps on air pollutants than those proposed by the European Commission. The committee vote is part of a major...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 14, 2015 (ENS) – To secure the financial resources for global climate action and for the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, more than 30 heads of state and government, 110 government ministers...
GAINESVILLE, Florida, July 12, 2015 (ENS) – Global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels many times over the past three million years, finds a new review analyzing three decades of research...