TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 2013 (ENS) – Production of heavy crude oil from the Alberta tar sands is Canada’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, and if expansion continues as government and industry project, they will cancel out every other effort to mitigate emissions, Canadian experts told reporters today. […]
BERN, Switzerland, August 14, 2013 (ENS) – A husband and wife research team has provided the first video-based observation of apes that can swim and dive. Instead of the usual dog-paddle stroke used by most terrestrial mammals, these animals use a kind of breaststroke. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – A federal appeals court ruled today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can no longer delay a decision on whether or not to grant a permit to the stalled nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – The World Bank has approved US$340 million for the Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project, which will generate power for residents of Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. While local officials welcome the project, river advocates say ecosystem impacts have not even been evaluated. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 13, 2013 (ENS) – The Bay Area Bike Share pilot program will go live on August 29 with 700 bikes at 70 stations in five cities – San Francisco, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Jose. […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 12, 2013 (ENS) – Petron Corporation has acknowledged its pipeline in Cavite Province leaked half a million liters of diesel fuel into Manila Bay which affected over 30 villages in the province. Petron is the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines. […]
LYON, France, August 12, 2013 (ENS) – Securities fraud, insider trading, embezzlement, money laundering and cybercrime – the intangible nature of the global carbon trading markets puts them at risk for exploitation by criminal networks, according to a new law enforcement guide produced by Interpol. […]
TOKYO, Japan, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – Radioactive groundwater leaks from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are increasing every day, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered the government to step in to help plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company deal with the radioactive flood. […]
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – Endangered chimpanzees and other primates could lose stretches of their forest habitat in Cameroon if a U.S. company’s plan to establish a palm oil plantation goes ahead. […]
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, August 9, 2013 (ENS) – To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil production in the Alberta tar sands, the government of Canada is investing in a demonstration-scale algal biorefinery that will convert carbon dioxide into commercial products. […]
GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – So many dead bottlenose dolphins are washing up on the Mid-Atlantic coast from New York to Maryland that federal government scientists have declared an “unusual mortality event” and are investigating what is responsible for these deaths. […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – New Zealand environmentalists have lost another round in their long-running battle to keep coal mining from destroying conservation land on the Denniston Plateau on the West Coast of the country’s South Island. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2013 (ENS) – Landsat satellites orbiting the Earth have continuously recorded changes to the planet’s land surfaces for 40 years, but while it is essential to U.S. national security, the future of the program is now in jeopardy, warns a new report from the National Research Council. […]
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 7, 2013 (ENS) – Across the United States, 2012 was the warmest year on record, and globally, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record, according to the 2012 State of the Climate report issued Tuesday by the American Meteorological Society. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 7, 2013 (ENS) – At least 16.55 billion gallons of renewable fuels must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply – a 9.74 percent blend – under the final 2013 overall volumes and standards newly set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. […]
JUNEAU, Alaska, August 7, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. government complied with the law when it approved Shell Oil’s plans for preventing and cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas, the U.S. District Court in Alaska ruled Monday. […]
MANAMA, Bahrain, August 6, 2013 (ENS) – Bahrain is on “high alert” following an oil spill in the Arabian Gulf, also called the Persian Gulf, which authorities say was deliberately caused by an Indian ship. […]
STANFORD, California, August 6, 2013 (ENS) – The Sun’s giant magnetic field is forecast to reverse itself sometime in November or December with consequences for the entire solar system. Such solar disturbances can cause storms in Earth’s magnetic field, affecting communications, power lines and satellites. […]
SANTA BARBARA, California, August 5, 2013 (ENS) – Warming oceans are causing marine species to change their breeding times and shift their habitats toward the poles much faster than land-based species, finds new research by scientists at 17 institutions across the world. […]
TOKYO, Japan, August 2, 2013 (ENS) – Four of Japan’s largest automakers will work together to promote the installation of chargers for electric vehicles and build a charging network that offers greater convenience to drivers in Japan. […]
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