WASHINGTON, DC, February 12, 2013 (ENS) – In a State of the Union Address focused on rebuilding the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama tonight pledged to fight climate change “while driving strong economic growth.” […]
BEIJING, China, February 12, 2013 (ENS) – To help cut record levels of air pollution in Beijing, the city is making zero-emission and alternative-energy vehicles more desirable by imposing strict limits on emissions from petrol-powered cars. […]
NEW YORK, New York, February 11, 2013 (ENS) – The Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, have proposed to reduce the 2014 regional emissions budget of carbon dioxide, CO2, by 45 percent. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – European heads of state and government have agreed to commit at least 20 percent of the entire European Union budget over the next seven years to climate-related spending. […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – Officials from 19 Asian countries are cooperating to reduce the impact of short-lived climate pollutants in the Asia-Pacific region. […]
SAN DIEGO, California, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – The waste heat generated by everyday energy consumption in urban areas is influencing major atmospheric circulation systems and causing continental-scale surface warming in high latitudes, new research has found. […]
DENVER, Colorado, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Under a court-ordered deadline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the North American wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – Combating climate change is important to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was confirmed by the Senate 94-3 on Tuesday as the Obama Administration’s new Secretary of State. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – Long-term exposure to fine particles of pollutants in the air can trigger adverse birth outcomes, childhood respiratory diseases and atherosclerosis, the World Health Organization warned today. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – An overwhelming majority of voters polled in a new American Lung Association survey support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in setting stricter […]
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 (ENS) – “Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled,” Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund told a World Economic Forum audience Wednesday. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2013 (ENS) – Climate change is getting renewed attention in Congress. Representative Henry Waxman of California and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island today announced the formation of a Task Force on Climate Change that will be active in both the House and the Senate. […]
LINCOLN, Nebraska, January 22, 2013 (ENS) – Today Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman approved a new route through the state for TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which avoids the environmentally-sensitive Sand Hills region. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2013 (ENS) – In an inaugural address founded on the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama today indicated that in his second term he will act to forestall climate change by developing sustainable energy sources. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2013 (ENS) – Evidence that the planet’s temperature is rising came flooding in this week, and in response environmental and public health groups have launched “100 Days of Climate Action,” from Inauguration Day to Earth Day […]
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, January 8, 2013 (ENS) – The year 2012 was warmest year for the continental United States since record keeping began, marked by historic drought, wildfires, hurricanes and storms, the U.S. National Climatic Data Center announced today. […]
CANBERRA, Australia, January 7, 2013 (ENS) – Days of bushfires have left parts of Australia’s island state, Tasmania, in ruins, and now the rest of the country is bracing for what forecasters say is the worst fire danger in decades. […]
MUNICH, Germany, January 3, 2012 (ENS) – A series of severe weather-related catastrophes in 2012 pushed the United States into a higher proportion of global natural disaster losses than usual, the world’s largest reinsurer, Munich Re, said today. […]
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, December 31, 2012 (ENS) – In 2012, the United States experienced 11 extreme weather and climate events that cost more than $1 billion in losses, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climactic Data Center. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 27, 2012 (ENS) – Lisa Jackson, who has headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during President Obama’s first term in office, is leaving the Cabinet after four years in which she regulated pollution over the objections of Congressional Republicans and industry. […]
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