STRASBOURG, France, February 7, 2013 (ENS) – A major reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, which aims to end overfishing, ban discards and restrict catches to sustainable stock levels, was approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday. […]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – The biodiesel industry “is helping create “a new dynamic in America,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a packed audience at the 20th anniversary National Biodiesel Board Conference & Expo today in Las Vegas. […]
CANBERRA, Australia, February 7, 2013 (ENS) – After 34 years of campaigning to keep uranium mining out of his ancestral land of Koongarra, Djok Senior Traditional Owner Jeffrey Lee sat in the House of Representatives Wednesday to watch this land be protected forever. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – Sally Jewell, who now heads outdoors retailer REI, the nation’s largest consumer cooperative, has been nominated as the next Secretary of the Interior. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – In an agreement with Greenpeace, the giant Asia Pulp and Paper Group Tuesday announced a new Forest Conservation Policy that puts an immediate end to all natural forest clearing in Indonesia. […]
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – Poachers have killed some 11,000 elephants in the Central African country of Gabon since 2004, finds a study by the Gabonese National Parks Agency, WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society released today. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, February 6, 2013 (ENS) – UPS is buying 100 electric commercial vehicles made in California and putting them to work delivering packages around the state, the company announced Tuesday. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have filed for patents on a new water purification system that turns the produced water from natural gas wells into drinking water. […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – Officials from 19 Asian countries are cooperating to reduce the impact of short-lived climate pollutants in the Asia-Pacific region. […]
SAN DIEGO, California, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – The waste heat generated by everyday energy consumption in urban areas is influencing major atmospheric circulation systems and causing continental-scale surface warming in high latitudes, new research has found. […]
HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – The month of January, usually the prime whale catching month for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, has come and gone without the death of a single whale, says Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Australia Director Jeff Hansen. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Mazda North America was honored with the inaugural 2013 Green Car Technology Award, as presented by “Green Car Journal” on Thursday at the Washington Auto Show. The Ford C-MAX Energi was named the Green Car Vision Award winner. […]
DENVER, Colorado, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Under a court-ordered deadline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the North American wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. […]
LOS ANGELES, California, February 1, 2013 (ENS) – A federal grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment that charges a now-shuttered Santa Monica sushi restaurant and two men who worked there as chefs with selling meat from endangered sei whales, which are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 1, 2013 (ENS) – Three pesticides that harm bees will be banned from application to flowering crops in Europe as of July 1, under new proposals issued by the European Commission. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – Combating climate change is important to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was confirmed by the Senate 94-3 on Tuesday as the Obama Administration’s new Secretary of State. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – Long-term exposure to fine particles of pollutants in the air can trigger adverse birth outcomes, childhood respiratory diseases and atherosclerosis, the World Health Organization warned today. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – An overwhelming majority of voters polled in a new American Lung Association survey support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in setting stricter […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 31, 2013 (ENS) – Birds, crabs and rare trees are expected to recover on Palmyra Atoll, a collection of islets located about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, now that roughly 30,000 rats have been eradicated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and conservation groups. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2013 (ENS) – The only rodenticide producer that has refused to adopt U.S. EPA’s safety standards for all of its consumer products has lost federal authorization to sell its products in the United States. […]
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