Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2019 (ENS) – An international team of scientists has for the first time captured an image of a black hole. Revealed Wednesday by researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope, the image shows a bright ring of material surrounding a dark center … Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2019 (ENS) – David Longly Bernhardt is an attorney, government administrator, and former lobbyist for the oil and water industries who serves as Acting United States Secretary of the Interior. He is fighting for the department’s top position in the Senate, where he is going through […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NAKHODKA, Russia, April 9, 2019 (ENS) – Officials in Russia have agreed to free almost 100 whales held in cramped sea pens in the Russian Far East for nearly a year after being caught for sale to foreign aquariums, especially in China and elsewhere in Asia. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service TOKYO, Japan, April 7, 2019 (ENS) – Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, issued a written statement in the last week of 2018 announcing the government’s decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission, IWC, in order “to resume commercial whaling” within its territorial waters … Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, April 4, 2019 (ENS) – The New York Yankees baseball team has chosen to play for a sustainable future by signing the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. The Yankees are the first major North American sports team to sign the Framework, which aims to […]
Published by the Environmental News Service EUGENE, Oregon, March 31, 2019 (ENS) – In what environmental lawyers in Eugene are calling “a stunning upset,” activist public interest attorney and Goldman Prize winner Zuzana Caputova has been elected President of Slovakia. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/31/environmental-activist-elected-president-of-slovakia/
Published by the Environmental News Service SALEM, Oregon, March 27, 2019 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, today signed a bill into law that creates a new line of defense against offshore oil and gas drilling that could undermine the coast’s thriving tourism, recreation and fishing industries. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/27/oregon-governor-signs-offshore-drilling-ban-into-law/
Published by the Environmental News Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 22, 2019 (ENS) – The snow and ice that has shrouded Mount Everest for thousands of years is melting in the warming climate, exposing the bodies of climbers who have lost their lives on the world’s highest peak. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/22/melting-glaciers-reveal-everest-graveyard/
Published by the Environmental News Service BREST, France, March 20, 2019 (ENS) – Oil leaking from an Italian container ship that sank in the Bay of Biscay March 12 is likely to reach French shores sometime this week, French maritime authorities warn. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/20/oil-from-sunken-cargo-ship-menaces-french-coast/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2019 (ENS) – A federal judge late Tuesday rejected the lease of certain public lands for fracking and ordered a halt to drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming until the Bureau of Land Management accounts for the impacts of such fracking on the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SEVILLE, Spain, March 20, 2019 (ENS) – In an unprecedented move for a La Liga soccer club, Sevilla-based Real Betis Balompié has officially joined the Climate Neutral Now initiative of UN Climate Change. The club will take action to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and to compensate for the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LA JOLLA, California, March 18, 2019 (ENS) – Only 10 vaquita porpoises likely remain in the world, marine mammal scientists reveal in a new report, warning that the animal’s extinction is certain without bold, immediate action to remove gillnets from their habitat. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/18/extinction-looms-for-worlds-smallest-porpoise/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2019 (ENS) – Millions of young people in 123 countries are skipping classes and staying out of school today on a strike for immediate government action to curb climate change before the planet becomes uninhabitable for their generation. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/15/student-climate-strikers-dont-burn-our-future/
Published by the Environmental News Service NAIROBI, Kenya, March 11, 2019 (ENS) – The world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment opened in Nairobi today with a moment of silence for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines ET302 accident, which happened Sunday morning. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/11/un-environment-opens-fourth-assembly-in-mourning/
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 8, 2019 (ENS) – International Women’s Day has two themes this year. The theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” addresses infrastructure, systems and frameworks in a male-defined culture. The theme #BalanceforBetter inspires action to drive gender balance throughout the world. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, March 8, 2019 (ENS) – A young Indigenous woman protesting Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s environmental policies on Native land was assaulted by a Liberal supporter during the Prime Minister’s climate rally at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto Monday night. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/03/08/indigenous-woman-attacked-at-trudeau-climate-rally/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 6, 2019 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency have settled with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation to resolve federal Clean Air Act claims arising from a 2013 fire at the company’s oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas that killed two employees and injured […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, February 28, 2019 (ENS) – As severe winter storms continue across California, Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an emergency proclamation for five counties: Amador, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma, to help them respond to and recover from flooding, mudslides and damage to critical infrastructure. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 27, 2019 (ENS) – The European Commission Tuesday introduced The Innovation Fund, an investment program worth over €10 billion for low-carbon technologies in energy intensive industries. The program supports renewables and carbon capture. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2019/02/27/eu-invests-e10-billion-in-lowering-carbon-dioxide/
Published by the Environmental News Service HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 23, 2019 (ENS) – Governor David Ige has suspended many environmental laws in his disaster declaration for the Pali Highway, issued today. He is suspending: the state water code, soil and water conservation, forest reserves, state parks and wildlife reserves, and the entire natural areas reserves […]