NEW DELHI, India, September 12, 2012 (ENS) – The government of India’s capital city says its some 17 million residents will have to learn to shop without plastic bags. On Tuesday, the Delhi cabinet approved an order imposing a blanket ban on the use, storage, sale and manufacture of single-use plastic bags in the city. […]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, September 11, 2012 (ENS) – The 100 species at greatest risk of extinction were named for the first time today at the World Conservation Congress being held on Jeju Island by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 11, 2012 (ENS) – Two Pacific Northwest conservation organizations are seeking permission from a federal court in Washington to fight a lawsuit that aims to limit the use of science to help manage U.S. national forests. […]
KOODANKULAM, Tamil Nadu, India, September 11, 2012 (ENS) – A young girl and a fisherman were killed in an protest Monday against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant under construction on the coast at India’s southern tip. Fifteen protesters and 10 policemen were injured. […]
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, September 10, 2012 (ENS) – To protect their shared natural and cultural resources on both sides of the Bering Strait, the United States and Russia will create a formal link between national parks in Alaska and in Russia. […]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, September 9, 2012 (ENS) – A new conservation tool – the Red List of Ecosystems – debuted today at the World Conservation Congress to identify ecosystems that are Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered based on an agreed set of criteria. […]
VATICAN CITY, September 7, 2012 (ENS) – French automaker Renault has presented Pope Benedict XVI with two electric vehicles designed and built to meet the the pontiff’s needs. […]
COLOMBUS, Ohio, September 8, 2012 (ENS) – Scotts Miracle-Gro, a producer of pesticides for commercial and consumer lawn and garden uses, was sentenced Friday to pay the largest ever criminal and civil penalties for violations of the federal law that governs the manufacture, distribution, and sale of pesticides. […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, September 7, 2012 (ENS) – Of all the areas of life where the two candidates now running for election to the U.S. presidency differ, the greatest gulf between them may be their policies on energy and the environment. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 7, 2012 (ENS) – Provisions to deal with aquatic invasive species, habitat degradation and the effects of climate change are featured in the newly amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by U.S. and Canadian officials today in Washington. […]
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, September 6, 2012 (ENS) – A biodiversity hotspot in Cameroon and sustainable palm oil in general are threatened as the developer of a large palm oil plantation quits the organization that sets environmental standards for the palm oil industry, warn conservationists. […]
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, September 6, 2012 (ENS) – The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, the world’s oldest environmental group, opened its World Conservation Congress to some 8,000 attendees on Jeju Island Wednesday, throwing into the spotlight a bitter battle over a naval base being built on the island. […]
SEATTLE, Washington, September 5, 2012 (ENS) – When the second annual Green Sports Alliance Summit opens in Seattle today, 400 sports executives and venue operators will each receive a fat new report on the greening of the $400 billion professional sports industry. […]
ROME, Italy, September 4, 2012 (ENS) – Soaring prices for grains and soybeans could harm tens of millions of people around the world in the coming months, the three officials most directly responsible for feeding the world’s hungriest people warned in a joint statement today. […]
LINKOPING, Sweden, September 4, 2012 (ENS) – The highest levels of the pesticide DDT ever found in breast milk have been measured in mothers living in malaria-plagued villages in South Africa.
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BERN, Switzerland, September 4, 2012 (ENS) – Switzerland’s Attorney General has opened a criminal investigation into the country’s largest bank, UBS AG, over suspected money laundering of timber corruption proceeds from the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – No lives were lost as a result of Hurricane Isaac, “because of the great work of law enforcement, National Guard, Coast Guard, making sure that folks were out in rescue mode rapidly, even in some cases at risk of their own lives,” President Barack Obama said today after visiting damaged areas of Louisiana. […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – Forty people have been arrested in five Southeast Asian countries in the largest coordinated operation against the illegal poaching and trade in pangolins, nocturnal mammals that feed on termites and other insects. […]
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – Two enormous new marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean have been designated by two of the world’s countries with the smallest land areas – the Cook Islands and New Caledonia. And the United States government will work with a third Pacific island state, Kiribati, to protect another vast expanse. […]
NEW DELHI, India, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – The government of India has approved a plan to get up to seven million electric and hybrid vehicles on Indian roads by 2020. […]
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