Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 2017 (ENS) – If hunters on Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuges want to use aircraft to chase down grizzly bears or shoot mother wolves and pups in their dens, they can now do so after President Donald Trump signed a bill overturning an Obama-era rule that […]
Published by the Environmental News Service FRANKFURT, Germany, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – The world added record levels of renewable energy generating capacity in 2016, at an investment level 23 percent lower than the previous year, finds new research reported in the latest issue of “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment.” Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service STRASBOURG, France, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – The European Union must improve legislation governing car emissions testing to prevent future scandals like the “defeat device” scandal, the European Parliament said Tuesday by voting to approve four recommendations to the European Commission and the Council. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/07/eu-parliament-votes-to-tighten-car-emissions-oversight/
Published by the Environmental News Service JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 7, 2017 (ENS) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court has overturned the current ban on domestic trade in rhino horn, so the sale of rhino horn will be allowed to resume within the country’s borders, but not internationally. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/07/south-african-court-allows-domestic-rhino-horn-trade/
Published by the Environmental News Service By Craig C. Downer MINDEN, Nevada, February 6, 2006 (ENS) – Though interspersed with sobering dangers, my trip to northwestern Peru in October and November 2005 has nonetheless proven to be enlightening. Now I realize just how urgent it is to change humanity’s reigning values and lifestyles in […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2017 (ENS) – Effective today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is denying a petition by two environmental groups who ask that the agency revoke all food residue tolerances for the pesticide chlorpyrifos. But the groups went back to court today to appeal that decision. Read […]
Published by the Environmental News Service MOCOA, Colombia, April 4, 2017 (ENS) – Torrential rains caused three rivers to burst their banks in the Colombian city of Mocoa early Saturday morning sending water and debris crashing into homes. The flooding and mudslides have claimed 254 lives and left hundreds of people missing. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 2, 2017 (ENS) – Art conservationists and nuclear scientists have joined forces in Brazil to use nuclear technology in the preservation of more than 20,000 cultural artifacts – paintings, sculptures and documents. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/02/art-meets-nuclear-science-in-brazil/
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, April 1 (ENS) – The northern Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and 26 smaller cities in the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan are taking concerted action to control the blanket of thick, choking smog that shrouds them in winter. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/01/china-gets-serious-about-smog-control/
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, March 31, 2017 (ENS) – China today permanently closed 55 retail ivory stores and 12 ivory carving entities across the country as a step towards shutting down its entire domestic ivory market to protect elephants at risk of extinction from poaching. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/31/hope-for-elephants-china-starts-ivory-market-shutdown/
Published by the Environmental News Service GREAT FALLS, Montana, March 30, 2017 (ENS) – Six environmental groups today sued the Trump Administration for what they allege is “illegally approving a cross-border permit” for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. On Monday, a tribal coalition and a U.S.-Canada environmental coalition filed suit to block the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 29, 2017 (ENS) – Nuclear powers, including the United States, Britain and France are among nearly 40 countries boycotting the first UN conference in more than 20 years on a global nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations this week. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2017 (ENS) – Most of President Barack Obama’s actions taken to forestall climate change were wiped out today as President Donald Trump revoked, revised, rescinded or withdrew limits on carbon emissions from power plants and opened federal lands to coal mining. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2017 (ENS) – To prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration, two nonprofit organizations and a conservation biologist have sent Freedom of Information Act requests for the data sets to eight federal agencies. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW DELHI, India, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – India’s automobile industry is geared up to begin production of vehicles compliant with Bharat Stage IV (BS-IV) emission norms across the country from April 1, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/24/india-moves-to-stricter-vehicle-emissions-norms/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs has issued a Presidential permit to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, authorizing the Canadian company to construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border for the importation of crude oil from Canada’s tar […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LIHUE, Kauai, Hawaii, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – Hawaii’s first utility-scale solar farm that stores solar energy in giant battery packs and delivers it to homes after sunset has opened on the island of Kauai. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/23/tesla-powers-kauai-with-solar-energy-after-sunset/
Published by the Environmental News Service TOULOUSE, France, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – NanoCars will compete for the first time ever during an international molecule-car race to be held on April 28-29 in Toulouse. The vehicles, which consist of just a few hundred atoms, will be powered by minute electrical pulses during the 36 hour-long […]
Published by the Environmental News Service DURBAN, South Africa, March 22, 2017 (ENS) – On this, World Water Day, a water-scarce world is looking to treated wastewater to help ease increasingly severe water shortages. In many of the regions projected to be hit hardest, a water crisis is already happening. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/22/world-water-day-appreciates-precious-wastewater/
Published by the Environmental News Service SANTIAGO, Chile, March 17, 2017 (ENS) – After the largest land donation in history from a private entity to a country, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Tompkins Conservation leader Kristine McDivitt Tompkins Wednesday signed a pledge to expand Chile’s national parkland by roughly 4,500,000 hectares. Read the full article […]