Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, April 1 (ENS) – The northern Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and 26 smaller cities in the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan are taking concerted action to control the blanket of thick, choking smog that shrouds them in winter. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/01/china-gets-serious-about-smog-control/
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, March 31, 2017 (ENS) – China today permanently closed 55 retail ivory stores and 12 ivory carving entities across the country as a step towards shutting down its entire domestic ivory market to protect elephants at risk of extinction from poaching. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/31/hope-for-elephants-china-starts-ivory-market-shutdown/
Published by the Environmental News Service GREAT FALLS, Montana, March 30, 2017 (ENS) – Six environmental groups today sued the Trump Administration for what they allege is “illegally approving a cross-border permit” for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. On Monday, a tribal coalition and a U.S.-Canada environmental coalition filed suit to block the […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Companies that have embraced environmental goals are represented on White House councils, offering influence that advocacy groups hope they’ll use. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/business/energy-environment/trump-business-climate-policy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 29, 2017 (ENS) – Nuclear powers, including the United States, Britain and France are among nearly 40 countries boycotting the first UN conference in more than 20 years on a global nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations this week. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2017 (ENS) – Most of President Barack Obama’s actions taken to forestall climate change were wiped out today as President Donald Trump revoked, revised, rescinded or withdrew limits on carbon emissions from power plants and opened federal lands to coal mining. Read the full article […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Flanked by coal miners at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump signed an order directing the agency to start the process of rewriting the Clean Power Plan. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/climate/trump-executive-order-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2017 (ENS) – To prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration, two nonprofit organizations and a conservation biologist have sent Freedom of Information Act requests for the data sets to eight federal agencies. Read the full […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Energy economists say the executive order is likely to fall far short on the president’s goals of increasing the nation’s “energy independence” and restoring lost coal mining jobs. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/climate/planned-rollback-of-climate-rules-unlikely-to-achieve-all-trumps-goals.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The expeditions of William Beebe and his coed Department of Tropical Research are remembered at an upcoming show at The Drawing Center in New York. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/william-beebe-department-of-tropical-research-illustrations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment If a fusion experiment in France succeeds, it could shape the power plants of the future and contribute greatly to reducing planet-warming emissions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/fusion-power-plant-iter-france.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A naturalist in England found the early-blooming plant had moved up its schedule by nearly two months — a foreboding sign of a warming climate. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/deadnettle-spring-global-warming-flowers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW DELHI, India, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – India’s automobile industry is geared up to begin production of vehicles compliant with Bharat Stage IV (BS-IV) emission norms across the country from April 1, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/24/india-moves-to-stricter-vehicle-emissions-norms/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, March 24, 2017 (ENS) – The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs has issued a Presidential permit to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, authorizing the Canadian company to construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border for the importation of crude oil from Canada’s tar […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Platte River in Nebraska is an important layover for hundreds of thousands of the birds as they head toward their summer homes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/sandhill-cranes-nebraska-platte-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service LIHUE, Kauai, Hawaii, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – Hawaii’s first utility-scale solar farm that stores solar energy in giant battery packs and delivers it to homes after sunset has opened on the island of Kauai. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/23/tesla-powers-kauai-with-solar-energy-after-sunset/
Published by the Environmental News Service TOULOUSE, France, March 23, 2017 (ENS) – NanoCars will compete for the first time ever during an international molecule-car race to be held on April 28-29 in Toulouse. The vehicles, which consist of just a few hundred atoms, will be powered by minute electrical pulses during the 36 hour-long […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Communing with some of the biggest trees on Earth. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/magazine/sequoias-in-the-land-of-giants.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service DURBAN, South Africa, March 22, 2017 (ENS) – On this, World Water Day, a water-scarce world is looking to treated wastewater to help ease increasingly severe water shortages. In many of the regions projected to be hit hardest, a water crisis is already happening. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/03/22/world-water-day-appreciates-precious-wastewater/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said lower demand reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/dining/beef-consumption-emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss