BERN, Switzerland, September 4, 2012 (ENS) – Switzerland’s Attorney General has opened a criminal investigation into the country’s largest bank, UBS AG, over suspected money laundering of timber corruption proceeds from the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – No lives were lost as a result of Hurricane Isaac, “because of the great work of law enforcement, National Guard, Coast Guard, making sure that folks were out in rescue mode rapidly, even in some cases at risk of their own lives,” President Barack Obama said today after visiting damaged areas of Louisiana. […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – Forty people have been arrested in five Southeast Asian countries in the largest coordinated operation against the illegal poaching and trade in pangolins, nocturnal mammals that feed on termites and other insects. […]
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – Two enormous new marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean have been designated by two of the world’s countries with the smallest land areas – the Cook Islands and New Caledonia. And the United States government will work with a third Pacific island state, Kiribati, to protect another vast expanse. […]
NEW DELHI, India, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – The government of India has approved a plan to get up to seven million electric and hybrid vehicles on Indian roads by 2020. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today declared the Wyoming population of gray wolves to be recovered and removed federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. As of September 30, wolves in Wyoming will be managed by the state as they are in Idaho and Montana. […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 31, 2012 (ENS) – A large earthquake jolted a sea area east of the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued for the Pacific region. After a small, local tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has now lifted all tsunami warnings and alerts. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2012 (ENS) – The Obama Administration today gave Shell approval to prepare for oil drilling in environmentally fragile Arctic waters off Alaska although a critical oil spill containment vessel has not been certified. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 30, 2012 (ENS) – The Australian government and the European Commission intend to link Australia’s newly established greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme and the European Union Emissions Trading System to create the world’s largest carbon market . […]
By Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International ONBOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – When I spoke to my friends and family this weekend I was unanimously scolded. […]
MOSCOW, Russia, August 30, 2012 (ENS) – Russia’s largest automaker AvtoVAZ unveiled its first electric car for journalists at the Moscow Auto Show on Wednesday. […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 29, 2012 (ENS) – “More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over one billion tons of food that nobody eats,” Torgny Holmgren, head of the Stockholm International Water Institute, said Monday at the opening of World Water Week. […]
RARATONGA, Cook Islands, August 29, 2012 (ENS) – The French Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia has pledged to create a vast marine protected area in its exclusive economic zone that will cover 1.4 million square kilometers, an ocean area about half the size of India. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – Strengthening into a hurricane just after noon on Tuesday, Isaac made landfall in far southeastern Louisiana at 6:45 pm CDT, nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf coast. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – The Obama Administration today finalized national fuel economy standards that will require model year 2025 cars and light-duty trucks to get the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon. […]
CHICAGO, Illinois, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – A jet fuel pipeline that ruptured Monday near Chicago has forced closure of Route 83 and part of the Calumet Sag Channel until […]
BOULDER, Colorado, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – Arctic sea ice cover has melted to its lowest extent in the 33-year satellite record, breaking the previous record low observed in 2007. With two to three weeks left in the melt season, scientists expect the ice cover to shrink even more. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 27, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. government alleges that Sinclair Oil Corp. violated air pollution limits established in a 2008 consent decree at refineries in Casper and […]
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, August 27, 2012 (ENS) – Illinois cities and towns can still pass ordinances to ban single-use plastic bags now that Governor Pat Quinn Sunday vetoed the Plastic […]
MOSCOW, Russia, August 27, 2012 (ENS) – Two days after voluntarily ending its occupation of the first permanent oil rig in the offshore Russian Arctic, Greenpeace International has mounted another action to stop Gazprom from drilling in the environmentally fragile area. […]
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