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Month: April 2021

Land Use/Forests

Forests Don’t Offset as Much CO2 as Countries Claim

April 29, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Forests Don’t Offset as Much CO2 as Countries Claim

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 3, 2021 (ENS) – A giant gap between the amount of greenhouse gases countries report emitting and the amount of these heat-trapping gases independent scientists estimate from [...]

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LOUISIANA: Pine Slash to Feed New Green Diesel Plant

April 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Pine Slash to Feed New Green Diesel Plant

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 23, 2021 (ENS) – Kansas-based Strategic Biofuels has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, plans to develop a renewable diesel plant in northern Louisiana [...]

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MAINE: Governor Puts Electric Cars on 10-Year Fast Track

April 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on MAINE: Governor Puts Electric Cars on 10-Year Fast Track

AUGUSTA, Maine, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Maine Governor Janet Mills has signed an executive order requiring that a “clean transportation roadmap” be drawn that will help the state hit [...]

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Innovative STAR Tool Reduces Species Extinction Risk

April 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Innovative STAR Tool Reduces Species Extinction Risk

GLAND, Switzerland, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – The new Species Threat Abatement and Restoration, STAR, metric developed by conservationists for the first time allows business, governments and civil society to [...]

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Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security

April 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – “Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable [...]

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NORTH DAKOTA: Dakota Pipeline Protest Leader LaDonna Allard Dies at 64

April 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on NORTH DAKOTA: Dakota Pipeline Protest Leader LaDonna Allard Dies at 64

FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – LaDonna Tamakawastewin (Good Earth Woman) Brave Bull Allard (1956-2021), Native American Dakota and Lakota historian, genealogist, and a matriarch of the [...]

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3D Printing Plant Hits Zero Waste To Landfill Status

April 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 3D Printing Plant Hits Zero Waste To Landfill Status

DUSSELDORF, Germany, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Henkel’s, the German firm founded in 1876 that today manufactures adhesives and resins for 3D printing, has achieved zero production waste to landfill [...]

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Autonomous Air Taxis Planned for Miami, Los Angeles

April 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Autonomous Air Taxis Planned for Miami, Los Angeles

MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company’s [...]

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Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’

April 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’

SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – A fire in New York’s Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. [...]

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Quieter Oceans Offer a Rare Chance to Listen

April 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Quieter Oceans Offer a Rare Chance to Listen

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, April 21, 2021 (ENS) – Coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions and economic slowdowns slammed the brakes on human activities in the oceans starting last spring and ongoing. Noise [...]

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A World at Risk: Royal Astronomer Looks Ahead

April 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on A World at Risk: Royal Astronomer Looks Ahead

CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 21, 2021 (ENS) – From bioengineered pandemics to city-ravaging cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could soon change radically due to humanity’s impact on the [...]

Health

Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year

April 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and the human and economic costs of tobacco are on the rise, the World Health [...]

Energy

U.S. Power Sector Halfway to Zero CO2 Emissions

April 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Power Sector Halfway to Zero CO2 Emissions

BERKELEY, California, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change concerns are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out heat-trapping carbon emissions [...]

Air/Climate

Restoration and Recovery on Earth Day 2021

April 18, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Restoration and Recovery on Earth Day 2021

WASHINGTON, DC, April 19, 2021 (ENS) – “Earthday.org is honored that the Biden Administration has decided to convene a global climate summit on Earth Day 2021, said Earthday.org President Kathleen [...]

Business

Toyota Builds Hydrogen-Powered City

April 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Toyota Builds Hydrogen-Powered City

TOKYO, Japan, April 8, 2021 (ENS) – Toyota is undertaking an enormous project – but on a small scale – a prototype city of the future on a 175-acre site [...]

Land Use/Forests

Invaders Attack U.S. Forests, Public Lands

April 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Invaders Attack U.S. Forests, Public Lands

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 8, 2021 (ENS) – “Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever-increasing world trade,” U.S. Forest Service scientists conclude [...]

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ILLINOIS: Wildlife Habitat Protection 101 for Landowners

April 6, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on ILLINOIS: Wildlife Habitat Protection 101 for Landowners

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 5, 2021 (ENS) – No longer do populations of bears, cougars or wolves exist in Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Now the agency [...]

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NEW MEXICO: New Law Bans Traps, Snares, Poisons on Public Lands

April 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on NEW MEXICO: New Law Bans Traps, Snares, Poisons on Public Lands

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 5, 2021 (ENS) – New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, today signed into law a bill banning traps, snares, and poisons on public [...]

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CALIFORNIA & NEVADA: EPA Stops Sale of Unregistered Disinfectant

April 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on CALIFORNIA & NEVADA: EPA Stops Sale of Unregistered Disinfectant

SAN FRANCISO, California, April 5, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered four companies to stop selling the unregistered disinfectant FN Nano Photocatalytic coatings, aka FN Coatings, [...]

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WasteShark, the Swimming Drone, Devours Marine Trash

April 5, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on WasteShark, the Swimming Drone, Devours Marine Trash

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, April 5, 2021 (ENS) – The Rotterdam-based startup RanMarine Technology has built a drone that swims rather than flies. The WasteShark traverses waterways to collect litter, biomass, [...]

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