WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands, September 26, 2012 (ENS) – Plastic nanoparticles released when plastic debris decomposes in seawater can have an adverse effect on sea animals, Dutch scientists have found. […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 25, 2012 (ENS) – California Governor Jerry Brown today took a test ride in a self-driving car before signing into law new safety standards and regulations for the autonomous vehicles. The law takes effect on January 1, 2013. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2012 (ENS) – Designing Our Environments, a theme of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, has brought millions of dollars in investment in ecosystems, urban centers, tree planting, food production, social and educational environments this week. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – Taking a page from Facebook engineers, researchers at Columbia University have developed new software that can calculate the carbon footprints of […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – President Evo Morales has signed into law a measure to safeguard Bolivia’s Amazon pink river dolphin and assigned the country’s armed forces to protect the rare species. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – The UN General Assembly’s first-ever High-level Meeting on the rule of law today stressed the “essential link” between the rule of law and sustainable development, economic growth and the eradication of poverty and hunger. […]
HUELVA, Spain, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – Twenty-three nuclear power plants with 74 reactors are located in areas of the world that are at high risk of large tsunamis, finds new research from scientists in Spain and Belgium. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 2012 (ENS) – Today, on the fall equinox, as the moonrise aligns with the two pinnacles at southwestern Colorado’s Chimney Rock, President Barack Obama designated the site as a National Monument. […]
LONDON, UK, September 21, 2012 (ENS) – A “dangerous” new malaria-transmitting mosquito has been discovered in Kenya by British, Kenyan and U.S. scientists. As yet unnamed, the newly-found species has never before been implicated in the transmission of malaria. […]
LONDON, UK, September 20, 2012 (ENS) – The world’s largest exhibit spotlighting sustainable urban development is at the core of London’s shiny new technology and innovation center, the Crystal, created by the German corporation Siemens AG. […]
MONTPELIER, Vermont, September 20, 2012 (ENS) – Children who love to eat tuna fish may be at greater risk of mercury poisoning than anyone has realized, finds the first study on mercury in school lunches published Wednesday by the Mercury Policy Project. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – Electric vehicles will star Sunday, September 23 for National Plug In Day, America’s largest grassroots EV event. […]
SYDNEY, Australia, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – The impact of climate change on Australia’s unique plants, animals and ecosystems will cause extinctions and lost ecosystem services and require new ways of thinking about biodiversity conservation, finds Australia’s national science agency. […]
BOULDER, Colorado, September 19, 2012 (ENS) – Arctic sea ice cover is now at the lowest summer minimum extent since satellite records began in 1979, say scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The new data prompted forecasts of severe winter weather across the Northern Hemisphere. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 18, 2012 (ENS) – Obese children and teens have higher levels of the chemical bisphenol A in their urine, researchers at New York University School of Medicine have found. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2012 (ENS) – More than 300 public interest groups representing millions of people from all 50 states sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Friday opposing a bill that would remove responsibility for coal ash management from the U.S. EPA and hand it to the states. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 17, 2012 (ENS) – Over the next 50 years, Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover from holes caused by emissions of chemicals such as refrigerants, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday on the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2012 (ENS) – Polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste, the Guaire River in Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas, is to be cleaned with a loan of US$300 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 16, 2012 (ENS) – A San Francisco Superior Court judge has upheld the validity of a local ordinance extending San Francisco’s ban on non-compostable plastic checkout bags to all retail stores and food establishments. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 17, 2012 (ENS) – Called EV Week, San Francisco’s new EV public education campaign really lasts just two days – September 17 and 18 – but this festival of electric vehicles is still a big deal. […]
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