LINCOLN CITY, Oregon, February 18, 2013 (ENS) – Japanese environmentalists concerned about marine debris scattered across the Pacific by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami came to Lincoln City on the weekend to coordinate with Oregon residents and help clean Oregon beaches. […]
GLAND, Switzerland, February 18, 2013 (ENS) – They may not be cute and cuddly like pandas, nor charismatic like tigers, but many reptiles, too, are at risk of being wiped out by human activities, finds the first global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, published Friday. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 17, 2013 (ENS) – Tens of thousands of people from across the country rallied in the nation’s capital on this chilly day to demand that President Barack Obama block TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and move forward on climate action. […]
CHELYABINSK, Russia, February 15, 2013 (ENS) – An asteroid several meters in diameter exploded in the atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk today at about 9:30 in the morning local time, injuring hundreds of people and damaging thousands of buildings, said officials. […]
NEW YORK, New York, February 15, 2013 (ENS) – In his final State of the City address, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed to add 10,000 public parking spots […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held talks in Washington D.C. today focused on high risk issues, including climate change, the nuclear test conducted by North Korea, the wars in Syria and Mali and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – Transocean Deepwater Inc. pleaded guilty today to a violation of the Clean Water Act for its illegal conduct leading to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request by the marine mammal conservation group Sea Shepherd to end restrictions on the movement of its ships near Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. But on the high seas, the whale defenders have the whalers on the run. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Government Accountability Office has added two new areas to the agency’s High Risk List – limiting the federal government’s fiscal exposure by managing climate change risks and closing gaps in weather satellite data. […]
TRENTON, New Jersey, February 13, 2013 (ENS) – Two East Orange Water Commission officials have been charged with conspiring to close contaminated wells before water tests, falsely reporting low levels of a contaminant in drinking water, then opening the wells, allowing the chemical back into the water supply. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 13, 2013 (ENS) – Today, 48 prominent environmental, civil rights, and community leaders demonstrated at the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and address the climate crisis […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 12, 2013 (ENS) – In a State of the Union Address focused on rebuilding the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama tonight pledged to fight climate change “while driving strong economic growth.” […]
BEIJING, China, February 12, 2013 (ENS) – To help cut record levels of air pollution in Beijing, the city is making zero-emission and alternative-energy vehicles more desirable by imposing strict limits on emissions from petrol-powered cars. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2013 (ENS) – The marine mammal conservation group Sea Shepherd has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court order forbidding its ships from approaching the Japanese whaling fleet now trying to catch whales in the Southern Ocean. […]
SOCHI, Russia, February 11, 2013 (ENS) – “Large-scale destruction of the environment and substantial environmental damage” is being wrought by preparation for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, a Russian non-profit group warned today in an Open Statement to the International Olympic Committee. […]
NEW YORK, New York, February 11, 2013 (ENS) – The Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, have proposed to reduce the 2014 regional emissions budget of carbon dioxide, CO2, by 45 percent. […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, February 10, 2013 (ENS) – Political pressure to lift Virginia’s longstanding ban on uranium mining threatens the health of the Roanoke River Basin, which supplies drinking water for over a million people, warns the Southern Environmental Law Center. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, February 10, 2013 (ENS) – Sea Shepherd Australia’s new whale defense ship, the SSS Sam Simon, has located the refueling tanker for the Japanese whaling fleet. […]
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – Moose in Minnesota are dying and the reasons are a mystery to state wildlife officials. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says since 2010, the moose population has declined 52 percent. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – European heads of state and government have agreed to commit at least 20 percent of the entire European Union budget over the next seven years to climate-related spending. […]
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