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Month: April 2017

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Air/Climate

People’s Climate March Encircles Trump White House

April 30, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on People’s Climate March Encircles Trump White House

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – Calling for jobs, climate justice and climate action, more than 200,000 people jammed the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday [...]

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Air/Climate

Trump’s EPA Scrubs Website of Climate Facts

April 30, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Trump’s EPA Scrubs Website of Climate Facts

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday removed decades worth of climate science from its website, one day before 200,000 people came [...]

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Ghost Net Art Can Save Marine Life

April 30, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Ghost Net Art Can Save Marine Life

 

THURSDAY ISLAND, Australia, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – To raise awareness of the harmful impact that ghost nets can have on the marine environment, the Australian Fisheries Management [...]

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Energy

Trump Opens Offshore Continental Shelf to Oil Drilling

April 28, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Opens Offshore Continental Shelf to Oil Drilling

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 28, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to study new oil and natural [...]

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At Risk

Renowned Conservationist Kuki Gallmann Shot in Kenya

April 24, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Renowned Conservationist Kuki Gallmann Shot in Kenya

 

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – Conservationist and author Kuki Gallmann, 73, was shot and wounded on Sunday morning in Kenya as she was inspecting damage committed [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Brave Goldman Prize Winners Defeat Greedy Corporations

April 24, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Brave Goldman Prize Winners Defeat Greedy Corporations

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – The world’s richest award to grassroots activists will be handed to six courageous people from around the world today. Winners [...]

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Air/Climate

California Residents Breathe USA’s Most Polluted Air

April 24, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on California Residents Breathe USA’s Most Polluted Air

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – Air pollution in California cities is the worst in the United States, both for short-term and year-round pollution, finds new research [...]

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Latest News

Science Takes Starring Role for Earth Day 2017

April 21, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Science Takes Starring Role for Earth Day 2017

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Earth Day Network and Google are joining together to spread knowledge and content about environmental [...]

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Latest News

Scientists Urge New Research Integrity Advisory Board

April 21, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Scientists Urge New Research Integrity Advisory Board

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – The United States should establish an independent, nonprofit Research Integrity Advisory Board to support ongoing efforts to strengthen research integrity, according [...]

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Fiji Spearheads Development Beyond the Sustainable

April 21, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Fiji Spearheads Development Beyond the Sustainable

 

By Suzanne Maxx

SUVA, Fiji, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – Fiji and other island nations may leapfrog the developed countries, becoming models for a greater than sustainable future – [...]

Latest News

Bay Area Caravan Demonstrates Fuel Cell Car Practicality

April 21, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Bay Area Caravan Demonstrates Fuel Cell Car Practicality

 

SACRAMENTO, California, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – Executives from three California state agencies Thursday caravaned from the state capital Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area and back [...]

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Air/Climate

Glacial Retreat Causes 1st Modern Case of River Piracy

April 18, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Glacial Retreat Causes 1st Modern Case of River Piracy

 

TACOMA, Washington, April 18, 2017 (ENS) – The retreat of a massive Canadian glacier has triggered the first known case of “river piracy” in modern times – the [...]

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Clean Water: It’s a Matter of Money

April 14, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Clean Water: It’s a Matter of Money

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 14, 2017 (ENS) – Clean, accessible drinking water is essential for life, and the United Nations says there is enough fresh water on the planet [...]

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Addis Ababa 1st in East Africa With Bus Rapid Transit

April 13, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Addis Ababa 1st in East Africa With Bus Rapid Transit

 

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 13, 2017 (ENS) – Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, a city of at least 3.4 million residents, is poised to build the first bus rapid [...]

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Latest News

Trump Authorizes Inhumane Killing of Alaska Predators

April 10, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Authorizes Inhumane Killing of Alaska Predators

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 2017 (ENS) – If hunters on Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuges want to use aircraft to chase down grizzly bears or shoot mother wolves and [...]

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Energy

World Adds Record Renewables at Record Low Prices

April 7, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on World Adds Record Renewables at Record Low Prices

 

FRANKFURT, Germany, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – The world added record levels of renewable energy generating capacity in 2016, at an investment level 23 percent lower than the [...]

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Air/Climate

EU Parliament Votes to Tighten Car Emissions Oversight

April 7, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on EU Parliament Votes to Tighten Car Emissions Oversight

 

STRASBOURG, France, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – The European Union must improve legislation governing car emissions testing to prevent future scandals like the “defeat device” scandal, the European [...]

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South African Court Allows Domestic Rhino Horn Trade

April 7, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on South African Court Allows Domestic Rhino Horn Trade

 

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court has overturned the current ban on domestic trade in rhino horn. As a result, the sale [...]

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Land Use/Forests

INSIGHTS: Mining Peru’s Andean Forests Puts Unique Species, Ecosystem at Risk

April 6, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on INSIGHTS: Mining Peru’s Andean Forests Puts Unique Species, Ecosystem at Risk

 

By Craig C. Downer

MINDEN, Nevada, February 6, 2006 (ENS) – Though interspersed with sobering dangers, my trip to northwestern Peru in October and November 2005 has nonetheless [...]

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Food

U.S. EPA Greenlights Pesticide Harmful to Children

April 5, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. EPA Greenlights Pesticide Harmful to Children

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2017 (ENS) – Effective today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is denying a petition by two environmental groups who ask that the agency revoke [...]

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