Air/Climate
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 [...]
Month: March 2016
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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 [...]
Business
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 [...]
Food
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
At Risk
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, [...]
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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
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 [...]