Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, August 11, 2018 (ENS) – California Governor Jerry Brown has issued an emergency proclamation for Lake, Mendocino and Napa counties due to the effects of the River, Ranch and Steele fires, which have destroyed homes, causing thousands of residents to flee, and threatened critical infrastructure. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 6, 2018 (ENS) – With Europe in the grip of a heatwave and with little rain to ease the drought, sunburned ground and dry vegetation are succumbing to fire. Fires have now broken out as far north as the Arctic Circle, in Sweden. Officials fear that […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2018 (ENS) – The Trump administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reversing a 2014 ban on the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified crops that trigger greater pesticide use across the national wildlife refuge system. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/08/06/trump-ends-ban-on-pesticides-gmos-on-wildlife-refuges/
Published by the Environmental News Service REDDING, California, August 5, 2018 (ENS) – The Carr Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, has claimed another life – bringing the death toll since July 23 to seven. A Pacific Gas and Electric crew member was doing restoration work in Shasta County Saturday afternoon […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2018 (ENS) – The Trump administration proposed Thursday to freeze national automobile fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2021-2026 passenger cars and light trucks. Opponents, including 19 states’ attorneys general, have already filed a lawsuit to block the proposal. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, August 2, 2018 (ENS) – The world’s six largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) increased their climate financing to a seven-year high of $35.2 billion in 2017, up more than 20 percent from the year before. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/08/02/big-banks-boost-climate-funding-by-20-percent/
Published by the Environmental News Service QUITO, Ecuador, July 31, 2018 (ENS) – In a benchmark pollution case, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has rejected Chevron’s final appeal of a $9.5 billion pollution judgment that found the company deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic oil waste onto Indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, July 28, 2018 (ENS) – President Donald Trump and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, have granted California’s request for a Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance to support the communities harmed by the deadly Carr Fire in Shasta County. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/07/28/deadly-redding-fire-claims-three-more-lives/
Published by the Environmental News Service REDDING, California, July 27, 2018 (ENS) – A ferocious wildfire in Northern California doubled in size overnight, killing at least two people. Chaos gripped Redding, a city of 91,800 people about 100 miles from the Oregon border, as a drumroll of evacuation orders mounted by the hour through the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 26, 2018 (ENS) – Indigenous peoples have ownership, use or management rights over at least a quarter of the planet’s land surface, and those lands overlap with 40 percent of all land-based protected areas, finds new mapping research published in the journal “Nature Sustainability.” […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2018 (ENS) – The Trump administration is proposing new rules for implementing the Endangered Species Act, ESA, that will make it more difficult to recover Threatened and Endangered species across the country. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/07/23/trump-attacks-endangered-species-act/
Published by the Environmental News Service BIRMINGHAM, England, UK, July 20, 2018 (ENS) – Watercourses with high levels of fine sediment and organic materials building up in their stream beds are increasing greenhouse gas emissions from rivers, raising the risk of communicable disease and putting wildlife at risk, new research demonstrates. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service DENVER, Colorado, July 18, 2018 (ENS) – A new poll by the Center for Western Priorities shows the growing influence of the Outdoor Voting Bloc in Mountain West swing states. These voters oppose opening more public lands for energy development, rolling back regulations on drilling and mining, and reducing […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 17, 2018 (ENS) – New York City is a magnet for America’s fashion designers, but fashion hasn’t been a feature in the sober halls of United Nations headquarters. That changed this week as the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held its annual […]
Published by the Environmental News Service VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, July 15, 2018 (ENS) – Only 84 Critically Endangered Amur leopards, Panthera pardus orientalis, remain in the wild along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in Russia and Jilin Province of China, according to the latest scientific estimate. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/07/15/amur-leopards-could-go-extinct-as-numbers-dwindle/
Published by the Environmental News Service COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 14, 2018 (ENS) – An iceberg four miles (six kilometers) wide has broken off a glacier on Greenland’s east coast. It happened in late June while American scientists were there and were able to record the event on video. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/07/14/iceberg-four-miles-wide-splits-off-greenland-glacier/
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 10, 2018 (ENS) – “It is literally the truth, that sustainable development is the path to happiness,” Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, told the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that opened on Monday at UN […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 5, 2018 (ENS) – Scott Pruitt resigned as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today in the face of a long list of scandals involving disregard of science, overspending, and abuse of power to enrich himself and his family. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/07/05/pruitt-cant-do-it-under-attack-epa-head-resigns/
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW DELHI, India, July 5, 2018 (ENS) – When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, was too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. Now, […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SAINT PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France, July 3, 2018 (ENS) – There may be lingering disagreements among China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States, but there is one complex project these seven entities have in common that is on track for success – the world’s largest […]