Environment News Service News Index
March 2011
- Amazon Rainforest Brown After Severe 2010 Drought
- Obama Proposes One-Third Cut in Oil Imports by 2025
- Toxic in Canned Foods Cleared By Fresh Food Diet
- Radiation in Washington Milk Way Below Level of Concern
- U.S. Automakers Will Profit from Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards
- India’s New Wild Tiger Census Shows Population Increase
- Japan to Decommission Four Damaged Nuclear Reactors
- Petrol-Powered Cars Could Be Banned from European Cities by 2050
- Radioactive Water a New Worry at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
- Clash Leaves Cloned Meats Unregulated Across the European Union
- Majority of U.S. Oil and Gas Leases Lie Idle
- Japan: 28,500 Dead or Missing; Power, Water, Fuel in Short Supply
- UN Nuclear Agency Calls High-level Meeting on Japanese Crisis
- Japan’s Radiation Reaches USA at Very Low Levels
- New York Demands Fire Safety Enforcement at Indian Point Reactors
- Joshua Tree National Park Escapes Threat of Nearby Landfill
- Japanese Nuclear Reactor Core May Be Leaking Radiation
- Earth Hour 2011 Goes Beyond
- Radioactivity Contaminates Tokyo Vegetable, Water in Six Prefectures
- New Battery Recharges in Seconds, Not Hours
- U.S. EPA Will Revoke Approval of Potent Greenhouse Gas to Cool Cars
- Alabama’s Small Cities Stormwater Permit Pits Enviros Against Developers
- Tokyo Tap Water Too Radioactive for Babies
- U.S. Government, World Bank Pool Assets to Ease Water Scarcity
- U.S. Lakes Expert Stephen Carpenter Earns Stockholm Water Prize
- Bee Scientist Overcomes Childhood Fear to Win Prestigious Tyler Prize
- Find Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on Google Maps
- World Water Day Report: African Cities Outgrow Their Water Supplies
- 33 Caribbean Countries Hold Region’s First Tsunami Alert Test
- Gulf of Mexico Suffers New Oily Spills
- Pro Teams Kick Off Nonprofit Green Sports Alliance
- First Deepwater Oil Drilling Plan Approved Since BP Spill
- Judge Halts California Greenhouse Gas Cap and Trade Program
- Vernal Equinox Dawns in Japan With 21,000 Dead and Missing
- Earthquake, Tsunami Cripple Japan’s Clean Vehicle Production
- UN Nuclear Safety Chief: Emergency Communications System Outdated
- Spring Floods Begin, Expected to Worsen through April
- States Demand EPA Stop Dirty Air From Upwind Power Plants
- Wheels Up Over the Arctic for NASA’s Climate Science Mission
- Japanese Nuclear Plant Radiation Danger Zone Not Widening
- Wolf Lawsuit Settlement Lifts Federal Protection in Two States
- Japan Makes Progress in Cooling Damaged Nuclear Plant
- Greenpeace Climate Protesters Slapped With Suspended Jail Time
- Congolese Government Suspends Oil Exploration in Mountain Gorilla Park
- Ford to Build Gas, Hybrid and Electric Cars on Same Assembly Line
- Obama: U.S. West Coast Need Not Fear Japanese Radiation
- Struggle to Control Japanese Reactors Intensifies
- Senators Question Safety of Nuclear Reactors in California and Vermont
- Malaysian Officials Seize Tiger Parts, Arrest Restaurant Owner
- EPA Requires U.S. Power Plants to Cut Mercury Emissions
- All Workers Evacuated from Damaged Nuclear Plant
- Invasive Lionfish Now Found From Bahamas to New England
- Third Blast Rocks Unstable Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
- ‘Possible’ Partial Meltdown At Quake-Hit Japanese Nuclear Plant
- Pressure Soars at Japanese Nuclear Reactor in Aftermath of Killer Quake
- No Meltdown After Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Reactor
- Japan Quake Kills Hundreds, Shuts Nuclear Plants, Generates Giant Tsunami
- U.S. Naval Forces Advised to Improve Readiness for Climate Change
- Bees Feel the Stings of a Dozen Deadly Things
- Nuclear Industry Sues to Lift Reactor Fuel Management Fee
- Conservationists: Forest Planning Rule Strips Wildife Protections
- Washington State Air Officials Sued Over Refinery Emissions
- Swiss NGO Links Los Angeles Killing to Timber Corruption in Malaysia
- World’s Largest Travel Trade Show Showcases Eco-Mobility
- European Commission Issues Low Carbon Roadmap to 2050
- Transgenic Microbe Converts Cellulose to Isobutanol Fuel
- Groups Allege Texas Power Plant Breached Clean Air Act ‘Thousands of Times’
- Roadless Rule Reinstated on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
- Guyana Deforestation Triples Despite Funding for Forest Protection
- Chevron Wins Halt to $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Pollution Case
- America’s EV Charging Station Makers Race for Market Share
- NASA Earth-Observing Satellite Crashes on Launch
- Costa Rica Protects Vast Pacific Ocean Expanse
- Arch Coal Fined $4 Million for Polluting Appalachian Streams
- Green, Greener, Greenest Cars at the Geneva Motor Show
- Human Demand Wipes Out World’s Turtles and Tortoises
- EPA Fugitive Sentenced for ‘Clean Scanning’ Cars
- U.S. Government Declares Eastern Cougar Extinct
- U.S. EPA: Clean Air Act Saved 160,000 lives in 2010
- Global Warming Blamed for Heavy Snowstorms, Record Floods
- Beijing to Get Hanging Sky Trains and Maglev Trains
- Russian Environmentalists Jailed for Protesting Dacha in Public Forest
- Patagonia Music Collective Fans Fund Environmental Nonprofits
