Air/Climate
Democratic Debaters Wrestle With Climate Change
MIAMI, Florida, June 29, 2019 (ENS) – Climate change was on the formal presidential debate agenda for the first time as 20 Democratic presidential candidates with their hopes [...]
Month: June 2019
Business
Golden Asteroid Could Make Everyone on Earth Wealthy
LONDON, UK, June 26, 2019 (ENS) – Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don’t really need to unlock the mystery of the origins [...]
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Carbon-neutral Fuel Created from Sunlight and Air
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 25, 2019 (ENS) – An innovative technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels from only sunlight and air has been developed by researchers from the Swiss [...]
Air/Climate
Himalayan Glaciers’ Melt Doubled Since Year 2000
NEW YORK, New York, June 21, 2019 (ENS) – The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated sharply since the start of the 21st century, [...]
Energy
Trudeau Greenlights Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, June 18, 2019 (ENS) – Canada’s federal cabinet has approved the twinning of the existing Trans Mountain pipeline that will carry diluted bitumen from the [...]
Health
Global Population to Hit 11 Billion by 2100, Then Slow
NEW YORK, New York, June 17, 2019 (ENS) – There will be roughly 9.7 billion people living on Earth by the year 2050, an increase of two billion over [...]
Air/Climate
Cruise Ships Pollute Port City Air More Than Cars
BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 11, 2019 (ENS) – Cruise ships are choking Europe’s port cities, with the biggest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emitting 10 times more sulphur oxides (SOx) [...]
Gov/Politics
Public Lands Critic to Oversee Fish, Wildlife and Parks
WASHINGTON, DC, June 11, 2019 (ENS) – The Secretary of the Interior keeps illegally shuffling political officials into jobs requiring Senate confirmation, according to a legal complaint filed [...]
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Canada to Ban Throw-Away Plastics by 2021
MONT-SAINT-HILAIRE, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 2019 (ENS) – Canada intends to ban “harmful” single-use plastics as early as 2021 and hold companies responsible for plastic waste, Prime Minister [...]
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Nano Villain Blamed for Oil Pipeline Corrosion
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 7, 2019 (ENS) – A form of nanoscale corrosion is responsible for unpredictable breaks in the steel pipelines that carry oil, decreasing their working [...]
Air/Climate
World Environment Day: Clean Air to Stabilize Climate
NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2019 (ENS) – “It is time to act decisively. My message to governments is clear: tax pollution; end fossil fuel subsidies; and [...]
Air/Climate
US Fertilizer Plants Emit 100 Times the Methane Reported
ITHACA, New York, June 6, 2019 (ENS) – Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the ammonia fertilizer industry have been greatly underestimated, finds new research from [...]
Land Use/Forests
Court Blocks Controversial Oregon Grazing Permits
PORTLAND, Oregon, June 4, 2019 (ENS) – A federal judge in Oregon today granted conservation groups’ motion to block livestock from using public lands allotments near the town of [...]
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Powering Jet Planes With Plastic Waste
RICHLAND, Washington, June 4, 2019 (ENS) – Scientists have found a way to turn daily-use plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a method described in a new [...]
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British Columbia Bans Sale of Gas-powered Cars by 2040
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2019 (ENS) – In a move aimed at removing a major source of air pollution and climate change, the provincial government has [...]
Energy
Governments Cue Hydrogen for Global Clean Energy Role
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2019 (ENS) – Hydrogen is on the move. At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting Friday in Vancouver, governments announced a new international [...]