Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON UK, May 11, 2017 (ENS) – Rapid charge points that power electric vehicles in 30 minutes will be installed across London in the next few months, according to the local government body responsible for the city’s transport system, Transport for London. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/11/london-invests-18-million-in-rapid-ev-charge-points/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At a meeting of the Arctic Council, the secretary of state was noncommittal when asked about the administration’s view on the landmark climate agreement. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/climate/rex-tillerson-arctic-council-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2017 (ENS) – By a slim margin, the U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to uphold an Obama-era regulation to control the the venting and flaring of the potent greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas wells on public lands. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/11/obama-era-methane-waste-rule-withstands-senate-attack/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A series of experimental “mesocosms” in Australia show that a warming world will have unexpected effects on marine ecosystems. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/science/climate-change-simulation-miniature-world.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Senators voted 51 to 49 to block a measure that would have undone a regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/regulations-methane-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service RICHLAND, Washington, May 9, 2017 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office declared an emergency at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation at 8:30 this morning after a cave-in of a 20-foot section of a tunnel hundreds of feet long that is used to store contaminated materials. Read […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The announcement encouraged advocates of the landmark accord, who hope that President Trump’s fellow heads of state can pressure him to remain in the pact. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/trump-climate-pact.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service TOKYO, Japan, May 9, 2017 (ENS) – Firefighters have been battling a wildfire in an area contaminated with radiation near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that melted down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the northeast coast of Japan. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/09/fire-near-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant-extinguished/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With the Trump administration still undecided about the Paris climate accord, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson is to head to a meeting of the Arctic Council in Alaska. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Paris accord provides its members with more flexibility than the earlier Kyoto Protocol, an argument for those who want the United States to remain in the deal. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/paris-climate-agreement-kyoto-protocol.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service SEATTLE, Washington, May 8, 2017 (ENS) – Twenty-six activists were arrested today as local indigenous leaders and Seattle climate activists disrupted business at 13 Chase Bank branches across Seattle in a major escalation in their campaign to keep banks from funding projects catastrophic to the climate and to indigenous […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Researchers focused on warmer weather that keeps the tundra from freezing until later, allowing processes that release carbon dioxide to continue longer. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/alaska-carbon-dioxide-co2-tundra.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Politics intruded on climate science in Australia. The scientists fought back, led by John Church, a leading world expert on sea level rise. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/a-parable-from-down-under-for-us-climate-scientists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A spokesman for the agency’s administrator said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries the agency is supposed to regulate. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Natural selection can’t explain this. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service BERLIN, Germany, May 5, 2017 (ENS) – The clock cannot be rewound and globalization reversed, said Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble at the B20 Dialogue Forum in Berlin on Tuesday. Together we can shape it for the better, and the G20 is the most effective format in which […]
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, May 3, 2017 (ENS) – Speaking at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York last week, Total SA’s chief energy economist Joel Couse predicted that electric vehicles will make up 15 to 30 percent of global new vehicle sales by 2030. Read the […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists near Monterey Bay in California find that giant larvaceans, a kind of zooplankton, can filter all of the water between 300 and 1,000 feet in the bay in less than two weeks. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/science/giant-larvaceans-filter-oceans-carbon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Before her appointment was shot down in Congress, Gina Lopez had acted aggressively to close mining companies accused of violating environmental laws. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/world/asia/gina-lopez-philippines-environment-secretary.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Packs of the animals, once endangered, have flourished, but biologists worry about the effects of renewed hunting outside the national park. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/science/wolves-hunting-yellowstone-national-park.html?partner=rss&emc=rss