Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – Calling for jobs, climate justice and climate action, more than 200,000 people jammed the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday in 90-degree temperatures. The People’s Climate March proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue to surround The White House, chanting “keep it in the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday removed decades worth of climate science from its website, one day before 200,000 people came together for the Peoples Climate March in Washington, with thousands more marching in communities around America and the world. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service THURSDAY ISLAND, Australia, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – To raise awareness of the harmful impact that ghost nets can have on the marine environment, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is working with Torres Strait artists to transform this waste into an educational tool. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/30/ghost-net-art-can-save-marine-life/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 28, 2017 (ENS) – President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to study new oil and natural gas drilling off the coast of California, the Atlantic states, the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic, revising the schedule […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An appeals court said it would delay a decision on the legality of the rule, which aims to tackle global warming by cutting emissions from coal-fired plants. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/climate/clean-power-plan-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Officials are seeking the reason for an “unusual mortality event” that has left 41 humpback whales dead since early 2016 from North Carolina to Maine. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/climate/whales-atlantic-mass-dieoff-noaa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The plan would cut nickel production by half in the country, the world’s top nickel exporter. Mining companies are joined by indigenous tribes in opposing the plan. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/world/asia/philippines-mining-environment.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Wax worms are able to break down the bonds in a popular synthetic polymer, which may someday help to reduce pollution. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/plastic-eating-caterpillar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The 1906 law, enacted under Theodore Roosevelt, has been used by presidents to protect vast tracts of public land from development and exploitation. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/climate/antiquities-act-federal-lands-donald-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Port Arthur, the famous prison that housed the British Empire’s toughest convicts in the 19th century, is facing an onslaught from the sea. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/climate/tasmania-global-warming-shoreline-erosion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service NAIROBI, Kenya, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – Conservationist and author Kuki Gallmann, 73, was shot and wounded on Sunday morning in Kenya as she was inspecting damage committed by arsonists to her property, an expansive conservation park in Western Laikipia, in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – The world’s richest award to grassroots activists will be handed to six courageous people from around the world today. Winners include a child soldier who now protects a Congolese park, an East Los Angeleno who battled lead contamination, and an Australian […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2017 (ENS) – Air pollution in California cities is the worst in the United States, both for short-term and year-round pollution, finds new research published by the American Lung Association in its 2017 “State of the Air” report. Los Angeles, Bakersfield and Visalia topped all […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Earth Day Network and Google are joining to spread information to mobile devices and desktop computers. A worldwide March for Science will take place in more than 500 locations to counter the denial of well-established climate […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – The United States should establish an independent, nonprofit Research Integrity Advisory Board to support ongoing efforts to strengthen research integrity, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/21/scientists-urge-new-research-integrity-advisory-board/
Published by the Environmental News Service SUVA, Fiji, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – Fiji and other island nations may leapfrog the developed countries, becoming models for a greater than sustainable future – a transformational future – one that cherishes the natural world while providing the resources that humanity needs and enjoys. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, April 21, 2017 (ENS) – Executives from three California state agencies Thursday caravaned from the state capital Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area and back to demonstrate how easy it is to drive and fuel hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in California. Read the full article […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Climate change is altering the environment in ways that increase the potential for viruses like Zika. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The asteroid, 2014 JO25, which is approximately 2,000 feet end-to-end, was about 1.1 million miles away when it passed by on Wednesday morning. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/science/asteroid-earth-nasa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A new study found that a major ocean current is carrying plastic from the North Atlantic to the Greenland and Barents seas, and leaving it there. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/climate/arctic-plastics-pollution.html?partner=rss&emc=rss