WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2018 (ENS) – To hear President Donald Trump deliver his first State of the Union Address to both houses of Congress last night was to realize that for him the environment does not exist. Or, he would...
January 31, 2018 9:39 am / no comments
WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2018 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has found high concentrations of rare earth elements, REE, in coal samples taken from five American coal basins.
Critical...
January 30, 2018 5:17 pm / no comments
By Callie Boatright, UNCW
My Internship at Masonboro Island Coastal Reserve: Part 1
Masonboro Island is a barrier island just off the coast of southeastern North Carolina. Masonboro, or Mase as the locals call it, is unique in that it is one...
January 27, 2018 7:28 pm / no comments
By Eric McLamb, Ecology Prime Media Inc.
There are many threats facing life on our planet today. There always have been since life first began to evolve some 3.8 billion years ago. This is natural and will not change. There have been countless...
January 27, 2018 7:25 pm / no comments
By Sean Froeb, UNCW
Over the summer I traveled to Nepal with the company Actuality Media to participate in their documentary outreach internship program. The program is designed to take documentary filmmakers from all over the world and pair...
January 27, 2018 4:03 pm / no comments
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 23, 2018 (ENS) – A massive magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck off the Alaskan coast southeast of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska at 12:31 this morning, local time.
The center of the quake was located...
January 23, 2018 8:20 am / no comments
BEIJING, China, January 22, 2018 (ENS) – The African Wildlife Foundation and the Beijing Zoo today launched a partnership intended to enhance China’s participation in sustainable conservation of Africa’s wildlife and wild...
January 21, 2018 3:28 pm / no comments
WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2018 (ENS) – Nine of the 12 members of the National Park System Advisory Board today resigned in frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting...
January 17, 2018 2:39 pm / no comments
BEIJING, China, January 17, 2018 (ENS) – An Iranian tanker carrying a full load of natural gas condensate that sank Sunday has been found on the bottom of the East China Sea, China’s Ministry of Transportation reported Wednesday....
January 17, 2018 1:33 pm / no comments
OAK BROOK, Illinois, January 16, 2018 (ENS) – Fast food giant McDonald’s today announced that by 2025, all of the company’s guest packaging will come from renewable, recycled, or certified sources, with a preference for...
January 16, 2018 1:59 pm / no comments
MONTECITO, California, January 12, 2018 (ENS) – First the worst fire in California history, then torrential rains, have brought down whole hillsides in Montecito, an upscale village in Santa Barbara County. It is the wealthiest...
January 12, 2018 11:58 am / no comments
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, January 10, 2018 (ENS) – A major earthquake, one of the most severe in the past 100 years, struck off the coast of Honduras late Tuesday night. The tremor was felt across much of the nation, officials said,...
January 10, 2018 6:49 am / no comments
LILONGWE, Malawi, January 9, 2018 (ENS) – The half million residents of Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, are smiling in anticipation of improved water services and safely managed sanitation through a new US$100 million project...
January 9, 2018 9:01 pm / no comments
SACRAMENTO, California, January 9, 2018 (ENS) – There are now more cell phones in the United States than there are people. As smartphone use continues to increase, especially among children, the California Department of Public Health...
January 9, 2018 4:40 pm / no comments
WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2018 (ENS) – The world’s coral reefs are dying due to global warming, finds a unique study published Friday in the journal “Science.”
For the first time, an international team of researchers...
January 8, 2018 1:34 am / no comments
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 6, 2017 (ENS) – The 2017 global land and ocean temperature will likely be among the three hottest years on record, and is expected to be the warmest year without a warming El Niño weather pattern in...
January 6, 2018 11:32 pm / no comments
WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2018 (ENS) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today infuriated environmentalists by proposing to make over 90 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf’s total acreage and more than 98...
January 4, 2018 2:11 pm / no comments