Air/Climate
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 [...]
Month: April 2017
Air/Climate
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
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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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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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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
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 – [...]
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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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
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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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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Food
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 [...]