Gov/Politics
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 [...]
Month: July 2017
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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, [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Gov/Politics
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
At Risk
‘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 [...]
Food
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 [...]
Food
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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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 [...]
Business
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
At Risk
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 [...]