At Risk
Slow Progress on Iraq Landmine Clearance
By Muhammad al-Zaidi and Khalid Waleed BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 10, 2012 (ENS) – While millions of dollars have been spent on clearing the 1,730 square kilometres (667 sq. […]
Land Use/Forests
Land Use/Forests
Mountain Waters Run Dry for Mexico’s Wixaritari People
By Juan Pablo García Medina GUADALAJARA, Jalisco, Mexico, May 9, 2012 (ENS) – For over 500 years, the Wixaritari Indians of Mexico have suffered from poverty, malnutrition and racism […]
Energy
First Solar Project on U.S. Public Lands Starts Generating
PRIMM, Nevada, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – The first utility-scale solar energy facility on U.S. public lands started delivering power on Monday with the flip of a switch by […]
Land Use/Forests
U.S. Supreme Court Ends Bush-Era Grazing Regulations
WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2011 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court today denied consideration of an appeal by the Public Lands Council of previous federal court decisions overturning Bureau […]
Land Use/Forests
Judge Upholds Forest Service Off-road Vehicle Ban in Wild Montana
GREAT FALLS, Montana, January 24, 2011 (ENS) – A federal judge in Great Falls has upheld a U.S. Forest Service travel plan that limits access by wheeled motor vehicles […]
Land Use/Forests
Land Use/Forests
British Columbia Bans Mining in Flathead River Valley
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, February 9, 2010 (ENS) – Mining and drilling for oil, gas and coal will be banned in the Canadian portion of the Flathead river drainage, […]
Energy
Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands Comes Under Intensive Scrutiny
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2010 (ENS) – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced changes to the federal onshore oil and gas leasing program that he says will improve protections […]
Air/Climate
East Coast Basalt Rocks Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide
NEW YORK, New York, January 6, 2010 (ENS) – Buried volcanic rocks along the coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England might be ideal reservoirs to store […]
Land Use/Forests
Profile: Environmental Justice Comes Naturally to New EPA Region 9 Administrator
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 27, 2010 (ENS) – Jared Blumenfeld, the newly appointed director of the U.S. EPA’s Pacific Southwest region, Region 9, is pledging to make life difficult […]
Land Use/Forests
Kashmir Plans Logging Crackdown to Slow Deforestation
By Zafar Iqbal MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, January 25, 2010 (ENS) – Yousaf Butt, a timber worker in the Neelum Valley at the Line of Control in Kashmir, […]
Land Use/Forests
Newmont Gold Mine to Pay Ghana Millions for Cyanide Spill
ACCRA, Ghana, January 22, 2010 (ENS) – The government of Ghana has requested nearly $5 million in compensation from Denver-based Newmont Mining for negligently spilling cyanide at its Ahafo […]
Land Use/Forests
San Francisco Gets $92 Million for Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 21, 2010 (ENS) – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today that an additional $92 million has been secured for the cleanup of the contaminated […]
Land Use/Forests
Sarawak Court Orders Oil Palm Company to Return Native Land
KUCHING, Sarawak, Malaysia, January 21, 2010 (ENS) – Sarawak’s natives have won two important court cases over native land issues, their attorney announced this morning in the Sarawak state […]
Air/Climate
Obama’s One-Year Environmental Grades Range From ‘B+’ to ‘C-‘
WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2010 (ENS) – One year after he was inaugurated with promises of “hope” and “change,” President Barack Obama has earned only a grade of “C” […]
Energy
Thirst for Oil Imperils South America’s Most Biodiverse Wilderness
QUITO, Ecuador, January 19, 2010 (ENS) – Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the most biodiverse area in all of South America, a […]
Land Use/Forests
Korean Police Arrest Protesters Against Jeju Island Naval Base
GANGJEONG, Jeju Island, South Korea, January 18, 2010 (ENS) – Once it was known as an eco-paradise, a resort island of peace, but today hundreds of police clashed with […]
Energy
Runners for Rainforest Ejected From Chevron Houston Marathon Expo
HOUSTON, Texas, January 15, 2010 (ENS) – A Rainforest Action Network team of runners that is openly critical of Chevron’s human rights record in Ecuador was kicked out of […]
Land Use/Forests
Tennessee Expands the Cumberland Trail
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, January 12, 2010 (ENS) – Tennessee officials announced today they have closed a land acquisition that will add more than 3,200 acres and 10 linear miles of […]
Energy
Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador’s Oil Underground
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 21, 2009 (ENS) – Ecuador’s initiative to protect the climate and the rainforest of Yasuni National Park by leaving its largest oil reserve in the ground […]