Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, January 4, 2017 (ENS) – The year 2016 will go down in the record books as the hottest ever, with average global temperatures set to break the records of 2015, finds data from the World Meteorological Organization covering the first 11 months of the year. Read the […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A new analysis suggests that the climatic trends that lead to greater hurricane activity also create a coastal buffer that weakens storms at landfall. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/science/hurricanes-us.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Progress has come in fits and starts, but supporters believe a new plant in Texas may provide a clear economic argument for fighting global warming. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/science/donald-trump-carbon-capture-clean-coal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The renewable energy transition is well underway and will not be easily reversed. But the new president can still set back efforts to slow climate change. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/science/donald-trump-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service LAS VEGAS, Nevada, December 31, 2016 (ENS) – The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, held annually in the first week of January in Las Vegas, is becoming the place to unveil exciting electric cars, upstaging the Detroit Auto Show held a week later, the usual venue for automakers to […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment If the Chinese government really commits to combating the ivory trade, then the price of ivory could collapse. Criminal organizations and poachers will then abandon the business. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/world/africa/africa-ivory-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service BEIJING, China, December 31, 2016 (ENS) – China will ban its domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017, the government announced Friday, a new policy conservationists are calling a “game changer” for beleaguered African elephants. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/12/31/china-bans-ivory-trade-to-foil-elephant-poachers/
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, December 30, 2016 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has designated two more national monuments – Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. They bring to 26 the number of monuments Obama has created under the Antiquities Act, protecting 550 million […]
Published by the Environmental News Service LYON, France, December 30, 2016 (ENS) – Environmental crime is a national priority for at least 80 percent of countries, with the majority reporting new and more sophisticated criminal activities that increasingly threaten peace and security, finds a new survey by INTERPOL and UN Environment (UNEP). Read the full […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A drop in their numbers has prompted an international team to call for changing the animal’s status from vulnerable to endangered. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/science/cheetahs-endangered-species.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Catch limits for fishermen are often based on where fish have been most abundant in the past. But they have failed to keep up with geographical changes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/science/fish-climate-change-northeast.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A California start-up that genetically engineers yeast to produce an acid for fragrances is at the forefront of efforts to reignite a market that fell short of earlier expectations. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/technology/clean-tech-rises-again-retooling-nature-for-industrial-use.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment An elevated role on climate change is a sign of how California, one of the world’s 10 largest economies, plans to resist the incoming administration’s policies. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/us/california-climate-change-jerry-brown-donald-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Mr. Sellers was a leading figure in NASA’s scientific research programs, flying to the International Space Station on the space shuttle Atlantis in 2002 and 2010, and on Discovery in 2006. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/us/piers-j-sellers-climate-scientist-and-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Beijing and other parts of China have for days been under a “red alert” issued because of dangerously bad air quality. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/world/asia/china-smog-toxic.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A spate of extreme warmth is linked to climate change, and may lead to shrinking ice coverage and even more warming in the region, scientists said. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/science/arctic-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, December 20, 2016 (ENS) – President Barack Obama is about to invoke a seldom-used provision of a 1953 law that gives presidents the power to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing, said two people who spoke to Bloomberg News anonymously because the decision has […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment NASA has launched eight microsatellites that will help scientists predict hurricanes and tropical storms. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/science/nasa-cygnss-satellites-hurricanes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2016 (ENS) – The American Bird Conservancy and its Brazilian partner Aquasis have secured more than 170 acres of critical habitat to improve the chance for survival of one of the world’s rarest and most spectacular birds, the Araripe Manakin. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/12/19/rare-brazilian-songbird-finds-refuge-in-a-dry-land/
Published by the Environmental News Service GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts, December 19, 2016 (ENS) – Working together, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council have designated a large offshore area in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean for the protection of deep-sea corals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/12/19/u-s-creates-atlantic-deep-sea-coral-protection-zone/