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Month: September 2015

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Air/Climate

EU Lawmakers Demand Real-World Diesel Emissions Tests

September 24, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on EU Lawmakers Demand Real-World Diesel Emissions Tests

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 24 2015 (ENS) – The European Commission is calling for full disclosure, zero tolerance and strict compliance with EU rules on pollutant emissions in view [...]

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Energy

Chinese and U.S. Governors Sign Clean Energy Pact

September 23, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Chinese and U.S. Governors Sign Clean Energy Pact

 

SEATTLE, Washington, September 23, 2015 (ENS) – In a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a bipartisan group of five U.S. governors Tuesday signed an accord with six [...]

Greenland
Air/Climate

Hidden Underwater, Greenland’s Glaciers Melting Fast

September 23, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Hidden Underwater, Greenland’s Glaciers Melting Fast

 

IRVINE, California, September 23, 2015 (ENS) – West Greenland’s fjords are much deeper than early models showed, and hidden there, warm ocean water is undercutting the island’s glacier [...]

grouse
Latest News

Sage-Grouse Denied Endangered Species Listing

September 22, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Sage-Grouse Denied Endangered Species Listing

 

DENVER, Colorado, September 22, 2015 (ENS) – The greater sage-grouse does not face the risk of extinction “now or in the foreseeable future” so the bird does not [...]

Clinton
Air/Climate

Clinton Opposes Keystone XL Pipeline On Climate Fears

September 22, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Clinton Opposes Keystone XL Pipeline On Climate Fears

 

DES MOINES, Iowa, September 22, 2015 (ENS) – Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton today told a town hall meeting that she opposes the TransCanada Keystone XL oil [...]

VW
Air/Climate

VW Used ‘Defeat Devices’ to Falsify Diesel Emissions

September 22, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on VW Used ‘Defeat Devices’ to Falsify Diesel Emissions

 

WASHINGTON, DC, September 22, 2015 (ENS) – Four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 include software that circumvents U.S. emissions standards for certain air pollutants, [...]

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Latest News

Tree of Life With 2.3 Million Species Open for Changes

September 21, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Tree of Life With 2.3 Million Species Open for Changes

 

DURHAM, North Carolina, September 20, 2015 (ENS) – The relationships among living things, as they diverged from one another from the beginning of life on Earth more than [...]

whale
Latest News

Court Orders Whale Protection, U.S. Navy to Restrict Sonar

September 21, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Court Orders Whale Protection, U.S. Navy to Restrict Sonar

 

HONOLULU, Hawaii, September 20, 2015 (ENS) – The U.S. Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar and explosives training that harms whales, dolphins and other marine [...]

London
Air/Climate

New Diesel Cars Making Europe’s Air ‘Unfit to Breathe’

September 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on New Diesel Cars Making Europe’s Air ‘Unfit to Breathe’

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 17, 2015 (ENS) – Nine out of 10 new diesel cars are failing to meet European Union air pollution limits, according to a report published [...]

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At Risk

Chilean Quake Claims 13 Lives, One Million Evacuated

September 18, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Chilean Quake Claims 13 Lives, One Million Evacuated

 

SANTIAGO, Chile, September 18, 2015 (ENS) – Thirteen people died and about one million others were forced to flee their homes after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck off [...]

Audi
Air/Climate

New Diesel Cars Making Europe’s Air ‘Unfit to Breathe’

September 17, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on New Diesel Cars Making Europe’s Air ‘Unfit to Breathe’

 

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 17, 2015 (ENS) – Nine out of 10 new diesel cars are failing to meet European Union air pollution limits, according to a report [...]

forest
Land Use/Forests

Global Deforestation Slows But Forests Still Shrinking

September 15, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Global Deforestation Slows But Forests Still Shrinking

 

DURBAN, South Africa, September 15, 2015 (ENS) – Over the past 25 years the rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent, even though the [...]

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At Risk

Fierce Wildfires Force Thousands of Californians to Flee

September 14, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Fierce Wildfires Force Thousands of Californians to Flee

 

SACRAMENTO, California, September 14, 2015 (ENS) – One person is dead and up to 1,000 homes and buildings have burned down in a fast-moving northern California wildfire that [...]

Latest News

Human Ancestor, Homo naledi, Discovered in S. Africa

September 11, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Human Ancestor, Homo naledi, Discovered in S. Africa

 

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 11, 2015 (ENS) – A new species of human relative has been discovered in a remote cave chamber  known as Rising Star in the [...]

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Latest News

Fuel-producing Plants Born of Wedding Nanoscience to Biology

September 9, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Fuel-producing Plants Born of Wedding Nanoscience to Biology

 

BERKELEY, California, September 9, 2015 (ENS) – Scientists have learned how to produce liquid fuel by creating artificial plants that make gasoline and natural gas using only sunlight [...]

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Air/Climate

Obama’s Climate Policy in Political Pressure Cooker

September 7, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Obama’s Climate Policy in Political Pressure Cooker

 

WASHINGTON, DC, September 8, 2015 (ENS) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to curb U.S. carbon emissions and forge a global consensus for action to reverse climate change before it’s [...]

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Business

Ten Carbon Majors Support Global Climate Deal

September 7, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Ten Carbon Majors Support Global Climate Deal

 

LONDON, UK, September 7, 2015 (ENS) – Ten of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers support an international deal at this year’s UN climate conference, COP21, in Paris [...]

Latest News

Musicians Urge Climate Pact in Love Song to Earth

September 7, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Musicians Urge Climate Pact in Love Song to Earth

 

NEW YORK, New York, September 7, 2015 – More than a dozen famous musicians are raising their voices in a new song, hoping inspire world leaders to reach [...]

No Picture
Air/Climate

Australia Lets Climate Polluters Evade ‘Safeguard’

September 6, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Australia Lets Climate Polluters Evade ‘Safeguard’

 

CANBERRA, Australia, September 6, 2015 (ENS) –  The Abbott Government is calling for public comment on the proposed rules for its Emissions Reduction Fund safeguard mechanism issued Wednesday. [...]

Naraha
At Risk

Evacuation Order Lifted on First Town Near Fukushima

September 6, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Evacuation Order Lifted on First Town Near Fukushima

 

TOKYO, Japan, September 5, 2015 (ENS) – On Saturday, Naraha became the first town to allow evacuated residents to return after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the nearby [...]

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