WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2009 (ENS) – As a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and restoration […]
MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, December 10, 2009 (ENS) – The indigenous Penan people on the island of Borneo have turned to the courts in their decades-long effort to protect their […]
By Lisa J. Wolf SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 3, 2009 (ENS) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered that a preliminary injunction be granted to tribal plaintiffs […]
LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, November 29, 2009 (ENS) – They are calling it the Penan Peace Park, but a new rainforest reserve proclaimed by indigenous Penan communities on their native […]
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, November 23, 2009 (ENS) – Three environmental groups are appealing a permit just issued by the state of Tennessee that allows the Tennessee Valley Authority, to discharge mercury, […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 23, 2009 (ENS) – A federal judge in Honolulu has ruled that the U.S. Army is obliged to give the community meaningful information on how military training […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 19, 2009 (ENS) – The governments of the northern European country of Norway and the South American country of Guyana will cooperate to provide the world with […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2009 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of the Interior is taking immediate actions to strengthen its oversight of state surface coal mining programs. The agency […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, November 17, 2009 (ENS) – In a decision with national relevance, a federal judge in Tallahassee Monday approved a consent decree that requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 16, 2009 (ENS) – Decision makers who factor the planet’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to see far higher […]
By Alejandro Zegarra Pezo PIURA, Peru, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – It is four in the morning on Sunday, November 1 in the paramo and cloud forest of Huancabamba, Piura […]
By Greg Harman MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – For the first time in decades, the eggs of endangered sea turtles buried on a small strip of Nicaraguan […]
By Greg Harman MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 10, 2009 (ENS) – Archeologist Richard Hansen, an expert in early Mayan civilization, studies human culture down to the microscopic level. And he […]
By Haider Rizvi NEW YORK, New York, November 2, 2009 (ENS) – Investors from capital-rich nations that cannot produce enough food for their own consumption are squeezing small farmers […]
KOWANYAMA, Queensland, Australia, October 26, 2009 (ENS) – The historic first return to indigenous owners of an Australian national park in the state of Queensland took place Friday on […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2009 (ENS) – Two Bush-era regulations that relaxed limits on the dumping of mine waste and removed the mining industry’s obligation to compensate the American […]
LOS ANGELES, California, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – The Natural Resources Defense Council is mounting a new campaign to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the world’s most productive salmon fishery, […]
KAMPALA, Uganda, October 6, 2009 (ENS) Pines and a mix of native African trees will soon cover what is now grassland within Uganda’s Rwoho Central Forest Reserve, an […]
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, October 5, 2009 (ENS) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has a new project in the works – to restart the state’s declining tourism industry by promoting […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 2, 2009 (ENS) – U.S. Forest Service management plans for four Southern California national forests do not adequately protect those forests’ wildest landscapes, a federal […]
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