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Curiosity Lands on Mars Seeking Signs of Life
PASADENA, California, August 6, 2012 (ENS) – NASA’s Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars at 10:32 pm August 5, PDT, sparking joy and relief in hundreds of scientists [...]
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Oceans
CO2 Carried Into Southern Ocean Depths
CANBERRA, Australia, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered how the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, is drawn down from the [...]
Land Use/Forests
Deforestation Slows Across Brazilian Amazon
BRASILIA, Brazil, August 2, 2012 (ENS) – Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is slowing down according to an analysis of satellite images released today by Brazil’s National Space Research [...]
Air/Climate
Youths Appeal Climate Case Against Washington State
SEATTLE, Washington, August 1, 2012 (ENS) – Six teenaged petitioners and their guardians Tuesday appealed their climate change lawsuit to the Washington State Supreme Court after a King [...]
Energy
Poll: Latino Voters Favor Clean Energy Economy
WASHINGTON, DC, August 1, 2012 (ENS) – An overwhelming majority of Latino voters who responded to a new public opinion poll support clean energy, are very concerned about [...]
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Eastern Governors, Premiers Back Alternative Fuel Vehicles
BURLINGTON, Vermont, August 1, 2012 (ENS) – The Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers has expressed unanimous support for the deployment of advanced transportation technology [...]
Energy
Enbridge Pipeline Spills Oil in Wisconsin
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – An oil spill from a broken Enbridge Energy pipeline in Wisconsin has been contained, the company says, but it could not have [...]
Business
London Olympics Clears Sustainability Hurdles
LONDON, UK, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games has met the vast majority of its sustainability targets, says the United Nations [...]
At Risk
Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14
KAMPALA, Uganda, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – Uganda’s Ministry of Health is advising residents to avoid eating dead animals especially monkeys, after declaring an outbreak of the highly infectious [...]
Air/Climate
American West Faces 21st Century ‘Mega-drought’
CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 30, 2012 (ENS) – The climate’s “new normal” for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 [...]
Land Use/Forests
Kashmiri Journalist Arrested for Exposing Felling of Historic Trees
By Zafar Iqbal
NEELUM VALLEY, Jammu and Kashmir, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – A journalist has been arrested by police and is being detained after the publication of photos [...]
RSS
London Green Group Urges a ‘Plastic-Bag-Free’ Olympics
LONDON, UK, July 27, 2012 (ENS) – As the first day of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games dawns with the ringing of bells across Britain, the grassroots campaign group [...]
RSS
Illinois Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Asbestos Crimes
URBANA, Illinois, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A 10-year prison sentence was imposed today on an Illinois man who was convicted of illegally removing asbestos insulation and exposing [...]
Air/Climate
Texas Judge Invalidates Las Brisas Energy Air Pollution Permit
AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – A state air pollution permit for a petroleum coke-fueled power plant planned for a city on the Texas coast was struck [...]
Energy
Tar Sands Protests Mark Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – People across the United States and Canada this week are marking the two-year anniversary of the Kalamazoo River tar sands oil [...]
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On Eluding Extradition
By Captain Paul Watson, founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
{Editor’s Note: Paul Watson was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on May 13, 2012 on a 10-year-old warrant from Costa Rica [...]
Energy
Straw to Ethanol Conversion Plant Opens in Germany
STRAUBING, Germany, July 26, 2012 (ENS) – Swiss chemicals company Clariant has opened Germany’s largest pilot plant for making climate-friendly cellulose ethanol from agricultural waste.
This biofuel of the [...]
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Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History
By Lester R. Brown, founder, Earth Policy Institute
WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2012 (ENS) – In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect [...]
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Rio+20: Outcome and Follow-up
By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, 2012 (ENS) – Much has been said in the press and elsewhere about the disappointment many have [...]