Published by the Environmental News Service MELBOURNE, Australia, August 8, 2016 (ENS) – U.S. and Australian officials have signed a new agreement aimed at strengthening collaboration on key transportation priorities in technology and innovation between the two countries. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/08/08/usa-australia-cooperate-to-advance-smart-transport/
Published by the Environmental News Service MEXICO CITY, Mexico, August 3, 2016 (ENS) – Mexico is to permanently ban the use of gillnets in waters where the endangered vaquita is found, in an attempt to save from exinction this small porpoise found only in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/08/03/mexico-bans-gillnets-to-save-endangered-porpoise/
Published by the Environmental News Service LA JOLLA, California, July 31, 2016 (ENS) – Scientists have identified a beaked whale that lives in the cold and remote North Pacific Ocean as a new species. They have yet to officially name the whale, but have confirmed the species as a member of the genus Berardius. Read […]
Published by the Environmental News Service ATLANTA, Georgia, July 30, 2016 (ENS) – Since local transmission of Zika virus was first reported in Puerto Rico in December 2015, it has become so widespread on the island that public health officials are calling it an “epidemic.” Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/31/zika-epidemic-could-hit-10000-pregnant-puerto-ricans/
Published by the Environmental News Service MIAMI, Florida, July 30, 2016 (ENS) – Florida officials have informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, that Zika virus infections in four people were likely caused by bites of local Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/30/first-u-s-local-mosquito-borne-zika-virus-sickens-four/
Published by the Environmental News Service MIAMI, Florida, July 30, 2016 (ENS) – Florida officials have informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, that Zika virus infections in four people were likely caused by bites of local Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/30/first-u-s-locally-transmitted-zika-virus-sickens-four/
Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, July 29, 2016 (ENS) – Today, 45 nongovernmental organizations from around the world are raising the alarm over increasing tiger poaching and calling for an end to all tiger farming and trade in tigers and their body parts. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/29/wild-tigers-in-peril-as-tiger-farms-flourish/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2016 (ENS) – After a four-year review of its environmental and social safeguards, the World Bank has released updated safeguards in the newly drafted document “Environmental and Social Framework.” But nongovernmental organizations say the draft safeguards have been weakened, not strengthened. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2016 (ENS) – The Obama Administration is unlocking up to US$4.5 billion in loan guarantees and inviting applications to support the commercial-scale deployment of innovative electric vehicle charging facilities, the White House announced on Friday. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/27/obama-states-auto-power-sectors-fund-ev-charging/
Published by the Environmental News Service ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, July 26, 2016 (ENS) – The solar-powered electric plane Solar Impulse 2 made history just after midnight today by completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth powered only by energy from the Sun. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/26/worlds-first-solar-plane-circles-the-earth/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2016 (ENS) – The Mingo Logan Coal Company has lost another round in the long legal battle to obtain a U.S. government permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, West Virginia, high in the Appalachian Mountains. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/24/court-upholds-u-s-epa-veto-of-mountaintop-removal-mine/
Published by the Environmental News Service MOSCOW, Russia, July 22, 2016 (ENS) – Russian chemist Dr. Valentin Parmon has won the 2016 Global Energy Prize for his work with new generation catalysts for the production of diesel and other motor fuels, fuel production from plant materials, and for the transformation of solar energy into chemical […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 19, 2016 (ENS) – United Nations Headquarters was bustling with activity on Monday, full beyond capacity as island dwellers from around the world gathered for the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/19/new-partnerships-protect-vulnerable-small-island-states/
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 19, 2016 (ENS) – United Nations Headquarters was bustling with activity on Monday, full beyond capacity as island dwellers from around the world gathered for the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/19/new-partnerships-shield-vulnerable-small-island-states/
Published by the Environmental News Service ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 18, 2016 (ENS) – The World Heritage Committee has inscribed nine new natural, or mixed natural and cultural, sites on the List of World Heritage: one transnational site – in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – and others in Canada, Chad, China, India, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2016 (ENS) – The Democratic and Republican platform planks on the environment, energy and climate change couldn’t be more different. The Democrats appear to be fully engaged in protection and restoration, while the Republicans are not. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/15/democrats-platform-eco-friendly-republicans-not/
Published by the Environmental News Service ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 12, 2016 (ENS) – Of all the world’s unique natural areas threatened by logging, poaching, dam development and gillnet fishing, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is advising the United Nations to place five of them on the List of Heritage in Danger. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SANTIAGO, Chile, July 13, 2016 (ENS) – Chile’s capital city, Santiago, has just been awarded the honor of hosting Mobilize 2017, the new annual Sustainable Transport Summit put on by the New York-based multinational Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/12/chiles-capital-wins-2017-sustainable-transport-award/
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 4, 2016 (ENS) – In 25 years there may not be a single elephant remaining in Africa if current rates of killing continue. As the EU member States meet today to discuss their position on whether to ban the ivory trade, a delegation of the African […]
Published by the Environmental News Service CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 2, 2016 (ENS) – New research has identified clear signs that the gaping hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is beginning to close and could close permanently by mid-century. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/02/antarctic-ozone-layer-begins-to-heal/