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Enbridge Pipeline Spills Oil in Wisconsin

August 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

London Olympic Stadium
Business

London Olympics Clears Sustainability Hurdles

August 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

uganda
At Risk

Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14

August 5, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Colorado drought
Air/Climate

American West Faces 21st Century ‘Mega-drought’

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Khawaja Fiaz Hussain
Land Use/Forests

Kashmiri Journalist Arrested for Exposing Felling of Historic Trees

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Olympics fan
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London Green Group Urges a ‘Plastic-Bag-Free’ Olympics

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

asbestos
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Illinois Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Asbestos Crimes

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

No Picture
Air/Climate

Texas Judge Invalidates Las Brisas Energy Air Pollution Permit

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

oil spill
Energy

Tar Sands Protests Mark Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Paul Watson
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On Eluding Extradition

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

cellulosic ethanol
Energy

Straw to Ethanol Conversion Plant Opens in Germany

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Lester Brown
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Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Janez Potocnik
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Rio+20: Outcome and Follow-up

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

cornfield
Air/Climate

Crop-Damaging Drought Will Raise Food Prices: USDA

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Crop-Damaging Drought Will Raise Food Prices: USDA

WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – Retail food prices are predicted to rise as soon as this fall due to the high temperatures, low rainfall and 70-year record [...]

elephant ivory
Latest News

Legal International Elephant Ivory Trade Proposed

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Legal International Elephant Ivory Trade Proposed

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – “We meet at a time when the illegal killing and illegal trade in African elephants and rhinoceros have reached the highest levels [...]

Ogeechee
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Judge Upholds Ogeechee Riverkeeper Challenge to Polluter

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Judge Upholds Ogeechee Riverkeeper Challenge to Polluter

 

STATESBORO, Georgia, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – A county judge has handed the nonprofit conservation group Ogeechee Riverkeeper a victory in its efforts to stop a Chicago-based textile [...]

Greenland
Air/Climate

Greenland’s Extreme July Meltdown

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Greenland’s Extreme July Meltdown

WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Virtually the entire ice sheet covering Greenland – from its coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center – experienced some degree of melting [...]

wildfire Spain
At Risk

Five Die as Vacationers Flee Fires in Spain, Croatia

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Five Die as Vacationers Flee Fires in Spain, Croatia

BARCELONA, Spain, July 24, 2012 (ENS) – Four people have died in two giant wildfires now devastating northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region. Since they blazed up on the weekend, the [...]

solar cars
Energy

U. Michigan Car Wins Fourth Straight American Solar Challenge

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on U. Michigan Car Wins Fourth Straight American Solar Challenge

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – The 2012 American Solar Challenge, an eight-day 1,650-mile competition for solar-powered vehicles, ended in St. Paul on Saturday with the University [...]

Mississippi River
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Landsat at 40: Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space

August 4, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Landsat at 40: Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space

 

WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2012 (ENS) – Today marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first satellite in the Landsat [...]

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