WASHINGTON, DC, June 4, 2013 (ENS) – Each year, June 5 is celebrated around the world as World Environment Day, and this year the focus of attention is on reducing food waste. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2013 (ENS) – Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, the oldest senator and last World War II veteran in the United States Senate, died today at the age of 89. […]
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, June 3, 2013 (ENS) – Oil spill cleanup concerns have led the British Columbia Government to reject a proposed multi-billion dollar tar sands oil pipeline that the Canadian company Enbridge wants to construct across the province. […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, June 2, 2013 (ENS) – Oklahomans are again mourning their dead and caring for their wounded after a series of violent storms and tornadoes claimed the lives of 13 people and injured more than 100 others Friday night. […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 2, 2013 (ENS) – What began on Friday as a peaceful environmental protest against government-backed plans to replace a park in central Istanbul with a military barracks and shopping center has touched off anti-government demonstrations across Turkey. […]
NEW YORK, New York, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Protecting the environment must be at the core of efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030, finds a high-level panel led by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Queen Rania of Jordan. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 31, 2013 (ENS) – Federal officials today designated 28 trails as national recreation trails, adding roughly 650 miles of trails in 18 states to the National Trails System. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government must analyze the effects of the California Dispersants Plan to determine whether the chemicals that break up oil spills would harm endangered wildlife, under a legal settlement filed today by federal agencies and conservation groups. […]
ROME, Italy, May 30, 2013 (ENS) – Jumps in jellyfish populations following overfishing is one reason why fish in the Mediterranean and Black seas are declining, finds a new United Nations report that advocates factoring jellyfish “blooms” into fisheries management strategies. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Southern California Edison’s statements to nuclear regulators about replacing steam generators at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2013 (ENS) – Giving expression to a law unanimously passed by Congress in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed two rules to help protect Americans from exposure to the harmful chemical formaldehyde emitted from wood products. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores today pleaded guilty to illegally handling and disposing of hazardous pesticides at its retail stores across the United States. […]
BERLIN, Germany, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – Chancellor Angela Merkel restated her goal of putting one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020 at a two-day conference on electric mobility staged by the federal government that opened Monday in Berlin. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2013 (ENS) – The United States should prepare for an “active or extremely active hurricane season” this year, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center says in its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued for National Hurricane Preparedness Week. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 27, 2013 (ENS) – On Wednesday, the day after Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Energy, electric automaker Tesla Motors repaid the entire remaining balance on a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy – nine years sooner than required. […]
MILAN, Italy, May 26, 2013 (ENS) – Glaciers in the Mount Everest region of the Himalayas have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward, finds a Nepalese scientist conducting research for his PhD studies at the University of Milan. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Two days before thousands across the United States plan to march against Monsanto’s genetically engineered crops, the U.S. Senate Thursday turned down a measure allowing states to require labels on foods made with genetically modified ingredients. […]
BEIJING, China, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – The City of Beijing plans to have 50,000 electric cars on the streets by 2015, 30,000 of which will be owned privately, according to the Legal Evening News, a Beijing newspaper. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2013 (ENS) – Most of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 17,700 employees are on furlough today to meet the budget requirements of the sequester, but still the agency is recognizing the Friday before Memorial Day as “Don’t Fry Day.” […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Warning that Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point at which human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet, California Governor Jerry Brown today joined more than 500 scientists to release a call to action on climate change and other global threats to all humanity. […]
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