Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The vast number of cases were in Indonesia, where the government claimed last year that only 19 people died. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/world/asia/indonesia-haze-smog-health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 19, 2016 EPA Encourages Homeowners and Communities to Maintain Septic Systems during SepticSmart Week Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-encourages-homeowners-and-communities-maintain-septic-systems-during-septicsmart-0
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment This year’s floodwaters and a history of hurricanes have highlighted the state’s need for a macabre and peculiar undertaking: cemetery recovery. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/us/we-built-an-app-keeping-track-of-louisianas-flood-tossed-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – Italian Environment Ministry commits 4.5 million euro for the protection of the Mediterranean – The money will go to improving protection of marine parks and tackling marine litter, among others Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36268&l=en
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The president announced the designation to protect a roughly 5,000-square-mile area the size of Connecticut that sits 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/politics/obama-to-create-atlantic-oceans-first-marine-monument.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund We can no longer move forward with plans, projects and developments that ignore a new climate reality. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/197412986/0/edf/blogs/feed~Planning-for-the-next-flood-disaster-areas-in-need-of-immediate-attention
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – Global Environment Outlook findings for the pan-European region form basis for common action – Up to 44,000 Poles die prematurely due to poor air quality, according to European Environment Agency – Better use of available resources could earn the region 1.8 trillion Euro and create up to […]
Published by Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University Bipartisan Policy Center, Great Plains Institute, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions sponsored a workshop focused on modeling analyses providing insights into trends in the electricity sector. It explored what trends mean for state energy and environmental policy choices. Storified by · Wed, […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, September 13, 2016 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice have settled with Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle giant, in a lawsuit over illegal devices that increase air pollution from riders’ bikes. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/14/harley-davidson-air-polluting-super-tuners-banned/
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36266&l=en
Published by the Environmental News Service KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – Acting on humanitarian grounds at the request of the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations mission in the country has “extracted” hundreds of individuals from a national park in the DRC. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CANBERRA, Australia, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – The Adani Group is moving ahead with its A$16 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, despite a new report by conservation groups that finds the conditions the federal government set when it approved the mine are “inadequate and will not […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 13 companies in the supermarket industry for their achievements reducing emissions of environmentally harmful refrigerants. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-recognizes-supermarkets-across-country-environmental-leadership-reducing-potent
Published by the Environmental News Service BRASILIA, Brazil, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer, today ratified his country’s adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, which sets greenhouse gas emissions targets to stop the global temperature from rising beyond 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/12/brazil-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The newest record continues a trend that points to 2016 becoming the hottest year since modern record-keeping began. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/august-hot-record-temperature.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The city was flooded in 2005, and again four years later. And again in December. In the northwest corner of England, global warming is not a distant threat. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/carlisle-england-climate-change-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Like her father before her, Isabella Dalla Ragione scours the countryside in search of varieties that no longer satisfy agricultural trends, market demands and modern tastes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/world/europe/italian-grows-forgotten-fruit-what-she-preserves-is-a-culture.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36265&l=en
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Brazil and Barcelona star takes up Gisele Bündchen invitation to help end illegal trade in wildlife Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36264&l=en
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, September 9, 2016 (ENS) – Ten years after California adopted the toughest greenhouse gas emission reduction goals in the nation, Governor Jerry Brown Thursday strengthened that commitment, signing two bills that require the state to cut emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Read the full […]
