Goldman Environmental Prize Rewards Brave Activists

April 24, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24, 2018 (ENS) – The Goldman Environmental Foundation Monday announced seven recipients of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award for grassroots environmental activists. The honor comes with a no-strings-attached award of US$175,000 per recipient. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/24/goldman-environmental-prize-rewards-brave-activists/

Health Officials Warn ‘Throw Romaine Lettuce Away’

April 21, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism, Oceans

Published by the Environmental News Service ATLANTA, Georgia, April 21, 2018 (ENS) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illness linked to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona. Read the full article […]

Chemical Industry Reaches for Sustainability

April 19, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Europe, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, April 19, 2018 (ENS) – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD, is launching a first-of-its-kind guidance for the chemical industry to help the industry assess sustainability “signals” across their entire product portfolio, then steer their portfolio towards improved sustainability outcomes. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/19/chemical-industry-reaches-for-sustainability/

Earth Day 2018 Targets Pollution by Plastic

April 18, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2018 (ENS) – Celebrated on Sunday, April 22, this year’s Earth Day theme is End Plastic Pollution by fundamentally changing human attitudes and behaviors to reduce plastic pollution. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/18/earth-day-2018-targets-pollution-by-plastic/

Climate Change Is Killing the Great Barrier Reef

April 18, 2018 / by News Editor / Australia, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, April 18, 2018 (ENS) – Corals on the northern part of the world’s largest coral reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016, finds a new study published online today in the journal “Nature.” Read the full article […]

Environmental Advocate, Attorney Commits Suicide By Fire

April 16, 2018 / by News Editor / Climate, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, April 16, 2018 (ENS) – A high-profile gay rights lawyer and environmental advocate burned himself to death in New York City on Saturday to protest the environmental destruction of global warming. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/16/environmental-advocate-attorney-commits-suicide-by-fire/

UN Champions Rights of Environmental Defenders

April 13, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Europe, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, April 13, 2018 (ENS) – In every week of 2017 at least four people were killed defending their right to a clean and healthy environment. Many more were harassed, intimidated and forced from their lands. Roughly half of the 197 environmental defenders killed in 2017 came from […]

Tax Breaks Motivate Europeans to Buy Cleaner Cars

April 12, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Europe, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 12, 2018 (ENS) – Emissions of carbon dioxide from new passenger cars have dropped in European countries where taxes, subsidies and other incentives encourage drivers to buy vehicles that emit the least amount of the greenhouse gas, finds new research from the European Environment Agency. Read […]

Giant New Solar Array Powers L.A. Convention Center

April 11, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service LOS ANGELES, California, April 11, 2018 (ENS) – The Los Angeles Convention Center, managed by AEG Facilities, has plugged in its new 2.21 megawatt solar array, making the City of Los Angeles number one for the most installed solar power of any U.S. city. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/11/giant-new-solar-array-powers-l-a-convention-center/

Six Dead in Worst Attack on Virunga Staff in Park History

April 11, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 10, 2018 (ENS) – Five Virunga National Park rangers and their driver died in an ambush Monday in the Central Sector of the park. One ranger survived and was treated for his injuries. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2018/04/10/90542/

I’m Suing Scott Pruitt’s Broken EPA; Here’s How to Fix It

April 10, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service In 2017, just a few days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, a freshman GOP lawmaker with only a few days on the job of his own, proposed House Resolution 861. Its language was ominous: “The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” Read the […]

Dredging up Paradise

April 4, 2018 / by Ecology Prime / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism, Oceans

Published by the Environmental News Service By Callie Boatright, UNCW My Internship at Masonboro Island Coastal Reserve: Part 2 Every morning I spent on Masonboro Island last summer was like a “moving picture” of the beauty of wildlife, the beaches and the ocean. There was always something different to be found. Unfortunately, though, that beauty […]

Old Mice Grow Young Blood Vessels

April 3, 2018 / by News Editor / Australia, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service By Sunny Lewis SYDNEY, Australia, April 2, 2018 (EcologyPrime.com News) – Replacing two naturally-occurring molecules in mice can reverse the ageing process of their blood vessels, increasing the animals’ physical endurance, scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Harvard Medical School have shown. The achievement, the […]

EPA Decides to Undercut Obama’s Clean Car Standards

April 3, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 2, 2018 (ENS) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation process for the greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025. He determined that the current standards are not appropriate and should […]

Border Wall a Disaster for Texas, Scientists Warn

April 2, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism, North America, Species

Published by the Environmental News Service AUSTIN, Texas, April 2, 2018 (ENS) – A border wall between the United States and Mexico threatens to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region’s growing ecotourism industry, warn conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin. […]

The Ecological Impact of the Industrial Revolution

April 2, 2018 / by Ecology Prime / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service By Eric McLamb Ecology Prime Media, Inc. The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment. Relatively overnight, it dramatically changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles. The impact of the Industrial Revolution on the world’s health and psyche would […]

Building The World’s Largest Solar Project

March 29, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 28, 2018 (ENS) – Saudi Arabia wants to pour US$200 billion into solar to build the world’s largest solar project. The Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan jointly plan to build a solar project that would be 100 times larger […]

Pipeline Fight Reaches Canada’s Highest Court

March 28, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Europe, Journalism, North America

Published by the Environmental News Service BURNABY, British Columbia, Canada, March 27, 2108 (ENS) – The City of Burnaby is taking its battle with Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan to the Supreme Court of Canada in an apparent attempt to halt a pipeline expansion that would multiply oil tanker traffic on Canada’s West Coast by […]

Eye Candy to Inspire Earth-Loving Audiences

March 27, 2018 / by News Editor / Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2018 (ENS) – During the past 10 days, March 15-25, the annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital has been a continual feast for the eyes and minds of anyone who cares about the environment – the world’s premier showcase for environmentally themed films. […]

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