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Month: July 2017

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Gov/Politics

Global Treaty for the Environment Taking Shape

July 30, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Global Treaty for the Environment Taking Shape

 

NEW YORK, New York, July 30, 2017 (ENS) – The Global Pact for the Environment, a new United Nations treaty to define fundamental environmental rights everywhere in the [...]

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Latest News

Endangered Tigers Face New Enemy – Wire Snares

July 29, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Endangered Tigers Face New Enemy – Wire Snares

 

CAMBRIDGE, UK, July 29, 2017 (ENS) – Illegal wire snare traps are creating a survival crisis for tigers and other wildlife across Asia. Today, on Global Tiger Day, [...]

Gore
Air/Climate

Gore’s New Film Evangelizes for Climate Action

July 28, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Gore’s New Film Evangelizes for Climate Action

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2017 (ENS) – Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” documents the efforts of this former Nobel Laureate, U.S. Vice President [...]

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Gov/Politics

House Approves 2018 Funding for Trump’s Border Wall

July 28, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on House Approves 2018 Funding for Trump’s Border Wall

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2017 (ENS) – The House of Representatives Thursday approved the Trump administration’s $1.57 billion budget request to expand the U.S.-Mexico border wall, ignoring threats [...]

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Latest News

Venezuelan Bird Feared Extinct for 60 Years Found

July 26, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Venezuelan Bird Feared Extinct for 60 Years Found

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2017 (ENS) – One of South America’s great bird mysteries has been solved by an international team of researchers working in the forested mountains of [...]

London
Latest News

UK to Ban New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles by 2040

July 26, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on UK to Ban New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles by 2040

 

LONDON, UK, July 26, 2017 (ENS) – The UK government will end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040, officials said [...]

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At Risk

‘Exceptional Global Warmth’ Triggers Wildfires, Floods

July 26, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on ‘Exceptional Global Warmth’ Triggers Wildfires, Floods

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 26, 2017 (ENS) – Wildfires in southeastern France forced the evacuation of 10,000 people overnight, French officials have confirmed.

Overall, more than 4,000 firefighters and [...]

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Food

Protein Made With Electricity Could Ease World Hunger

July 24, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Protein Made With Electricity Could Ease World Hunger

 

LAPPEENRANTA, Finland, July 24, 2017 (ENS) – Finnish scientists have produced a single-cell protein using electricity and carbon dioxide that can be developed for use as human food [...]

Pope
Food

Pope Donates to Feed Drought-Stricken East Africa

July 24, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Pope Donates to Feed Drought-Stricken East Africa

 

ROME, Italy, July 24, 2017 (ENS) – In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis has donated €25,000 to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s efforts to support people struggling [...]

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Latest News

Trump Takes Aim at Alaska Wildlife

July 21, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Takes Aim at Alaska Wildlife

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2017 (ENS) – A wildlife refuge in Alaska will no longer be a real refuge for wildlife after the National Park Service and the [...]

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Business

11 Big Banks Offer Climate Risk Transparency

July 19, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 11 Big Banks Offer Climate Risk Transparency

 

LONDON, UK, July 19, 2017 (ENS) – Eleven of the world’s largest banks, representing over US$7 trillion, are making a public commitment to promote climate risk transparency in [...]

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Air/Climate

California Extends Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regime

July 18, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on California Extends Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regime

 

SACRAMENTO, California, July 18, 2017 (ENS) – The California Legislature handed Governor Jerry Brown a hard-fought victory on Monday when a bill to extend California’s cap-and-trade program for [...]

Air/Climate

Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica as Climate Warms

July 13, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica as Climate Warms

 

GREENBELT, Maryland, July 13, 2017 (ENS) – An iceberg weighing one trillion metric tonnes, one of the largest ever recorded, calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf [...]

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Land Use/Forests

UNESCO World Heritage Panel Warns Poland on Logging

July 11, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on UNESCO World Heritage Panel Warns Poland on Logging

 

KRAKOW, Poland, July 11, 2017 (ENS) – The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow added three natural sites and extended another, while removing a West African site [...]

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Latest News

U.S. Aquariums Battle Plastic Waste in Oceans, Lakes

July 11, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Aquariums Battle Plastic Waste in Oceans, Lakes

 

MONTEREY, California, July 10, 2017 (ENS) – Stopping the flow of plastic pollution into oceans and lakes is the goal of a new partnership of 19 U.S. aquariums [...]

Merkel
Air/Climate

U.S. Causes Climate Dissention at G20 Summit

July 10, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Causes Climate Dissention at G20 Summit

 

HAMBURG, Germany, July 10, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate overshadowed this year’s G20 meeting [...]

At Risk

Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Adopted Without Nuclear States

July 8, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Adopted Without Nuclear States

 

NEW YORK, New York, July 7, 2017 (ENS) – Despite the absence of all nine nuclear-weapons states, countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York Friday [...]

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Land Use/Forests

New Zealand Supreme Court Blocks Dam in Forest Park

July 6, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on New Zealand Supreme Court Blocks Dam in Forest Park

 

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 6, 2017 (ENS) – New Zealand’s publicly owned forest parks and other conservation lands cannot be disposed of for private development interests, the country’s [...]

methane
Air/Climate

Court: EPA Must Enforce Obama Methane Emissions Limit

July 4, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Court: EPA Must Enforce Obama Methane Emissions Limit

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 4, 2017 (ENS) – A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to suspend a rule restricting [...]

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At Risk

Struggling U.S. National Parks Flooded With Visitors

July 3, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Struggling U.S. National Parks Flooded With Visitors

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 3, 2017 (ENS) – U.S. national parks are experiencing some of the heaviest traffic of the year this Independence Day weekend, as millions of visitors [...]

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