Published by the Environmental News Service LOS ANGELES, California, December 6, 2017 (ENS) – Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced tonight as wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds roar through the forests of southern California, devouring all homes in their path. About 200,000 people are under evacuation orders, but no deaths and few injuries […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump Monday signed proclamations to shrink the boundaries of two national monuments in Utah – Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The proclamations result in five distinct monument units within the two monuments. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, November 25, 2017 (ENS) – Three of world’s largest conservation organizations – BirdLife International, the Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF – have just launched an unprecedented 25-year tree planting and restoration effort they are calling the Trillion Trees program. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/28/planet-earth-needs-a-trillion-new-trees/
Published by the Environmental News Service GOTHENBURG, Sweden, November 27, 2017 (ENS) – Within a very few years, when you call for an Uber ride, a self-driving vehicle will show up at your door. Volvo Cars has signed an agreement with the ride sharing company to sell Uber tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible […]
Published by the Environmental News Service KABUL, Afghanistan, November 26, 2017 (ENS) – With about 300 sunny days every year, Afghanistan is well situated for solar power, and soon the country will be generating electricity with its first industrial-scale solar photovoltaic array. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/26/on-grid-solar-power-comes-to-afghanistan/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 25, 2017 (ENS) – The seventh annual 24 Hours of Reality broadcast, a starry, 24-hour live event focused on the climate crisis and its solutions, will happen December 4-5, hosted by former U.S. Vice President and Climate Reality Founder and Chairman Al Gore. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, November 20, 2017 (ENS) – A multi-faceted new surge of climate actions and financing was announced by countries, cities, states, regions, businesses and civil society during COP23, the UN annual climate conference, which closed early Saturday morning in Bonn. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/20/urgency-propels-climate-actions-funding-at-cop23/
Published by the Environmental News Service LOS ANGELES, California, November 19, 2017 (ENS) – Moving bus stops away from intersections would reduce the amount of pollution to which bus riders are exposed, scientists from the University of California Los Angeles report. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/19/relocating-bus-stops-protects-riders-from-pollution/
Published by the Environmental News Service PIERRE, South Dakota, November 17, 2017 (ENS) – TransCanada has shut down its Keystone pipeline after it sprang a leak early Thursday near the small community of Amherst in Marshall County, South Dakota. The pipeline carrying crude oil from Canada’s tar sands will remain shut down as the company […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, November 14, 2017 (ENS) – “We’re here, we’re in and we’re not going away,” California Governor Jerry Brown said of many U.S. states and cities at the ongoing UN climate talks in Bonn. Despite President Donald Trump’s vow to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement […]
Published by the Environmental News Service DUBLIN, Ireland, November 13, 2017 (ENS) – December 2017 is the last month when wild animals in circuses can legally be shown to Irish audiences. Michael Creed, Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has signed regulations banning the use of wild animals in circuses that perform in […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, November 10, 2017 (ENS) – National leaders and business leaders pledged ambitious action and millions in funding for renewable energy today at the UN climate talks in Bonn, hosted by the government of Fiji. It’s Energy Day at COP23, the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service KARACHI, Pakistan, November 10, 2017 – Shipbreaking plot no. 54 in Gadani, Pakistan, was sealed off Thursday after a massive fire broke out aboard the ship ACES. No casualties were reported. This is the same floating oil production tanker that blew up on November 1 last year, an explosion […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, November 6, 2017 (ENS) – The year 2017 is very likely to be one of the three hottest years on record, with catastrophic hurricanes and floods, heatwaves and drought, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s statement on the State of the Climate, released today in Bonn at […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BONN, Germany, November 5, 2017 (ENS) – One year after the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations’ Bonn Climate Conference opening Monday, will be a chance for nations to showcase their climate actions and their determination to keep their promises. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, November 2, 2017 (ENS) – North Korea may not have proven petroleum reserves, but it’s estimated that the secluded belligerent nation sits on reserves of more than 200 minerals, including rare earth minerals, estimate to be worth up to US$10 trillion. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/02/the-10-trillion-resource-north-korea-cant-tap/
Published by the Environmental News Service STANFORD, California, November 1, 2017 (ENS) – The whole world could be powered by one deep-sea wind farm stretching across the North Atlantic Ocean, finds new research from doctors Anna Possner and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University, California. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/11/01/one-deep-sea-wind-farm-could-power-entire-world/
Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, October 30, 2017 (ENS) – Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surged at record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, the World Meteorological Organization says in its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/10/30/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-highest-in-800000-years/
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, October 27, 2017 (ENS) – Top global companies are making measurable improvements in sustainability reporting, finds the latest Reporting matters study from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/10/27/companies-upgrade-sustainability-disclosures/
Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2017 (ENS) – Elephant poaching in Africa continued trending downward in 2016, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, reports. Records show the highest level of seizures of illegally traded ivory since commercial trade was banned by CITES in 1989. But conservationists warn it […]