Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The energy market may eventually be a bigger user of blockchain than the financial services sector. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831512/0/edf/blogs/feed~How-blockchain-could-soon-upend-America%E2%80%99s-power-markets
Published by the Environmental News Service LILONGWE, Malawi, January 9, 2018 (ENS) – The half million residents of Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, are smiling in anticipation of improved water services and safely managed sanitation through a new US$100 million project financed by the World Bank. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/01/09/malawis-capital-to-get-us100-million-water-upgrade/
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, January 9, 2018 (ENS) – There are now more cell phones in the United States than there are people. As smartphone use continues to increase, the California Department of Public Health has issued its first guide for people who want to decrease their exposure to the radio […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2018 (ENS) – The world’s coral reefs are dying due to global warming, finds a unique study published Friday in the journal “Science.” For the first time, an international team of researchers measured the escalating rate of coral bleaching at locations throughout the tropics over […]
Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, January 6, 2017 (ENS) – The 2017 global land and ocean temperature will likely be among the three hottest years on record, and is expected to be the warmest year without an El Niño weather pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according to the World Meteorological Organization. […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Tesla is among a number of auto manufacturers that see a robust, long-term market for zero-emission electric trucks. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831514/0/edf/blogs/feed~How-electric-trucks-could-disrupt-highway-transport-and-save-businesses-billions
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2018 (ENS) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today infuriated environmentalists by proposing to make over 90 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf’s total acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Moody’s report left out this critical disaster risk information for communities seeking to retain their credit worthiness. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831516/0/edf/blogs/feed~What-you-need-to-know-about-what%E2%80%99s-in-%E2%80%93-and-absent-from-%E2%80%93-Moody%E2%80%99s-climate-risk-report
Published by the Environmental News Service SYDNEY, Australia, December 28, 2017 (ENS) – A small carnivorous marsupial presumed extinct in New South Wales for more than century, has been discovered in Sturt National Park in eastern Australia. The Crest-tailed Mulgara, a mammal known only from fossilized bone fragments, was once widely distributed across Australia’s inland […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Businesses that plan for a more disruptive climate future will ultimately differentiate themselves from those that don’t. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831518/0/edf/blogs/feed~steps-that-will-make-your-business-more-climate-resistant
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund As 2017 draws to a close, we take stock of sustainable fishery successes that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831520/0/edf/blogs/feed~Oceans-on-the-rebound-These-developments-give-us-hope
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, December 21, 2017 (ENS) – By 2100, migrants applying for asylum in the European Union will nearly triple over the average of the last 15 years if carbon emissions continue on their current path, new research predicts. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/12/21/climate-refugees-forecast-to-flood-europe-by-2100/
Published by the Environmental News Service ATLANTA, Georgia, December 21, 2017 (ENS) – The United Parcel Service of America, Inc., widely known as UPS, today announced it has placed a reservation for 125 of Tesla’s new fully electric semi tractors. J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and Ryder, which operate thousands of trucks, say […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, December 20, 2017 (ENS) – China has announced plans to establish the world’s largest emissions trading system, covering more than 1,700 power companies and three billion tonnes in total greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/12/20/china-to-open-worlds-largest-emissions-trading-market/
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund When the first phase of the country’s carbon market is fully implemented, it’s expected to cover roughly 39 percent of China’s emissions and be the largest in the world. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831522/0/edf/blogs/feed~reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-China%E2%80%99s-new-carbon-market
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, December 18, 2017 (ENS) – E-waste – everything from discarded end-of-life solar panels, phones, laptops, and sensors to fridges, air conditioners and televisions – amounted to 44.7 million metric tonnes (Mt) last year, equal in mass to about nine Great Pyramids of Giza. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund With technology breakthroughs pushing down costs, this is an invention waiting to scale up. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/519831524/0/edf/blogs/feed~Pollution-monitors-Next-big-thing-for-clever-entrepreneurs
Published by the Environmental News Service PARIS, France, December 12, 2017 (ENS) – Two years after the historic Paris Agreement on climate, more than 50 heads of state, as well as environment ministers and regional leaders, bank and finance executives and celebrities are meeting today in Paris to take action that will finance global efforts […]
Published by the Environmental News Service COLUMBIA, South Carolina, December 8, 2017 (ENS) – A leaked one-page document seen by ENS confirms that the U.S. Department of Energy is considering the use of a nuclear fuel plant at the government’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina for production of plutonium “pits” for nuclear weapons. Read […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BINGHAMTON, New York, December 7, 2017 (ENS) – In the future, people could wear garments that incorporate power-generating bacteria to support electronic devices. A textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery has been created by a research team at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/12/07/wearable-bio-batteries-use-bacteria-to-generate-power/