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Month: March 2016

Obama, Xi
Air/Climate

U.S., China to Sign Paris Climate Pact on Earth Day

March 31, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on U.S., China to Sign Paris Climate Pact on Earth Day

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 31, 2016 (ENS) – On April 22, Earth Day, the United States and China will both sign and join the global agreement to combat climate [...]

tires
Latest News

World First: Tire Recycling Yields Steel, Diesel, Carbon

March 31, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on World First: Tire Recycling Yields Steel, Diesel, Carbon

 

PERTH, Western Australia, March 31, 2016 (ENS) – Tytec Recycling, a new company based in Perth, announced Wednesday that it would open the world’s first environmentally-friendly off the [...]

drilling platform
Business

Rockefeller Family Fund to Divest ExxonMobil Holdings

March 30, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Rockefeller Family Fund to Divest ExxonMobil Holdings

 

NEW YORK, New York, March 30, 2106 (ENS) – The Rockefeller Family Fund expressed today its intent to divest from its investments in fossil fuels. At the same [...]

cans
Food

Toxic Chemical Still in Can Linings of Popular Foods

March 30, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Toxic Chemical Still in Can Linings of Popular Foods

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2016 (ENS) – A new report from six health and environmental groups finds 67 percent of nearly 200 food cans from dozens of brands [...]

water
Land Use/Forests

UN: Water, Forests and Jobs All Interdependent

March 22, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on UN: Water, Forests and Jobs All Interdependent

 

ROME, Italy, March 22, 2016 (ENS) – Nearly half of the world’s workers are employed in water-related sectors, while at the same time, the water security of eight [...]

candles
Air/Climate

Earth Hour 2016: Lights Off to ‘Change Climate Change’

March 18, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Hour 2016: Lights Off to ‘Change Climate Change’

 

SINGAPORE, March 18, 2016 (ENS) – On Saturday, March 19 at 20:30 local time, hundreds of millions around the world will turn off the lights for Earth Hour [...]

oil rig
Energy

Obama Halts Atlantic Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing

March 17, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Obama Halts Atlantic Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2016 (ENS) – The Obama Administration is withdrawing the middle and southern Atlantic seaboard from its next five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan [...]

dinosaur
Latest News

New Tyrannosaurus Species Discovered in Uzbekistan

March 16, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on New Tyrannosaurus Species Discovered in Uzbekistan

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2016 (ENS) – A newly discovered species of dinosaur, named Timurlengia euotica, lived about 90 million years ago and fills a 20 million-year [...]

Prince, Lieberman
Latest News

Transport Leaders Vow to Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking

March 15, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Transport Leaders Vow to Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking

 

LONDON, UK, March 15, 2016 (ENS) – Leaders of the global transportation industry today signed a new declaration pledging to fight wildlife trafficking by disrupting the transport routes [...]

Latest News

Malawi Torches Tonnes of Contraband Ivory

March 15, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Malawi Torches Tonnes of Contraband Ivory

 

By Charles Mkoka

MZUZU, Malawi, March 15, 2016 (ENS) – Malawian authorities burned 2.6 tonnes of ivory to ashes at a ceremony Monday at Mzuzu Nature Sanctuary in [...]

Trudeau, Obama
Air/Climate

U.S., Canada Forge Climate, Energy, Arctic Partnership

March 12, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on U.S., Canada Forge Climate, Energy, Arctic Partnership

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2016 (ENS) – On the occasion of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first state visit to Washington, he and President Barack Obama Thursday issued [...]

Fukushima
At Risk

Fukushima Ecosystem Still Poisoned Five Years Later

March 11, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Fukushima Ecosystem Still Poisoned Five Years Later

 

TOKYO, Japan, March 11, 2016 (ENS) – “The environmental impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will last decades to centuries, due to man-made, long-lived radioactive elements are [...]

women
Latest News

Sustainability Central to International Women’s Day

March 10, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Sustainability Central to International Women’s Day

 

NEW YORK, New York, March 9, 2016 (ENS) – International Women’s Day is officially celebrated every year on March 8, but this year, so much is happening that the [...]

At Risk

Anti-dam Activists Call for Justice in Cáceres Killing

March 9, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Anti-dam Activists Call for Justice in Cáceres Killing

 

MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, March 8, 2016 (ENS) – Indigenous leaders fighting against dams worldwide have issued a joint call for a prompt, thorough and independent investigation into the [...]

factory
Air/Climate

Planet Earth in Carbon Budget Squeeze

March 4, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Planet Earth in Carbon Budget Squeeze

 

LAXENBURG, Austria, March 4, 2016 (ENS) – Humanity must hold itself to a strict carbon budget – emitting even less greenhouse gases than earlier estimated – if we [...]

Berta Cáceres
At Risk

Goldman Prize Winner Murdered in Honduras

March 3, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Goldman Prize Winner Murdered in Honduras

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 3, 2016 (ENS) – A indigenous Lenca woman who was honored with a 2015 Goldman Prize last year for her fight against a destructive dam, [...]

Latest News

Youth Forum for People and Wildlife Spans 25 Countries

March 3, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on Youth Forum for People and Wildlife Spans 25 Countries

 

YARMOUTH PORT, Massachusetts, March 3, 2016 (ENS) – Today, on World Wildlife Day, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, announced that 34 young leaders in conservation and animal welfare [...]

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U.S. Plastics Industry Pursues Zero Net Waste

March 3, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Plastics Industry Pursues Zero Net Waste

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 2, 2016 (ENS) – The Plastics Industry Trade Association Monday launched the Zero Net Waste program, a tool for members to use to evaluate waste [...]

Ameriscan

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