Published by the Environmental News Service CANBERRA, Australia, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – The Adani Group is moving ahead with its A$16 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, despite a new report by conservation groups that finds the conditions the federal government set when it approved the mine are “inadequate and will not […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRASILIA, Brazil, September 12, 2016 (ENS) – Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer, today ratified his country’s adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, which sets greenhouse gas emissions targets to stop the global temperature from rising beyond 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/12/brazil-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The newest record continues a trend that points to 2016 becoming the hottest year since modern record-keeping began. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/august-hot-record-temperature.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The city was flooded in 2005, and again four years later. And again in December. In the northwest corner of England, global warming is not a distant threat. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/carlisle-england-climate-change-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Like her father before her, Isabella Dalla Ragione scours the countryside in search of varieties that no longer satisfy agricultural trends, market demands and modern tastes. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/world/europe/italian-grows-forgotten-fruit-what-she-preserves-is-a-culture.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service SACRAMENTO, California, September 9, 2016 (ENS) – Ten years after California adopted the toughest greenhouse gas emission reduction goals in the nation, Governor Jerry Brown Thursday strengthened that commitment, signing two bills that require the state to cut emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WOLFSBURG, Germany, September 9, 2016 (ENS) – Volkswagen and the Chinese corporation Anhui Jianghuai Automobile will explore joint development of electric vehicles in China, the two companies agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at VW headquarters in Wolfsburg on Tuesday. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/09/vw-explores-making-evs-with-state-owned-chinese-firm/
Published by the Environmental News Service YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, September 9, 2016 (ENS) – Faced with state and federal charges, Rutgers Organics Corporation has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Nease Chemical Superfund Site near Salem, Ohio, at an estimated cost of $18.75 million. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/09/ohio-superfund-site-to-get-18-75-million-cleanup/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Park officials first thought the sandstone had fallen naturally. But a video shows people toppling it. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/oregon-duckbill-formation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Warming makes intense storms like those that hit southern Louisiana last month at least 40 percent more likely, researchers said. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/science/global-warming-louisiana-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, September 7, 2016 (ENS) – A federal judge Tuesday declined to halt construction on a part of the Dakota Access oil pipeline route west of Lake Oahe that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has recently identified as sacred tribal burial ground. The site was bulldozed on the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service HANGZHOU, China, September 6, 2016 (ENS) – The Hangzhou G20 communique issued today brings climate change to the center stage of the global agenda and sends a strong signal for all nations to join the Paris Agreement as soon as possible. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/09/06/usa-and-china-formally-join-paris-climate-agreement/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The state has had “thousands of years of earthquake activity in a short period of time,” a geologist says. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/in-puzzle-of-oklahomas-earthquakes-new-data-may-provide-clues.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service HONOLULU, Hawaii, September 5, 2016 (ENS) – Wildlife conservationists meeting in Honolulu for the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress are shocked and saddened by the release of the Great Elephant Census showing that numbers of African savanna elephants have declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014. Read the full […]
Published by the Environmental News Service HONOLULU, Hawaii, September 4, 2106 (ENS) – “Our planet is most certainly at a crossroads,” declared Zhang Xinsheng, president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature at the opening ceremony of the IUCN World Conservation Congress. A report from the conference today shows many of the world’s […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The state has had thousands in recent years, and the number with higher magnitudes has risen significantly. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/earthquake-ties-record-for-strongest-in-oklahoma-history.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On the Chinese tarmac, an angry exchange between a security official and White House aides, and a challenge to President Obama’s national security adviser. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/world/asia/obama-xi-staff-shouting-match.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The ceremony Saturday in Hangzhou, China, offered a rare display of harmony in a relationship that has become increasingly discordant. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/world/asia/obama-xi-jinping-china-climate-accord.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 1, 2016 – The World Bank and the International Water Association declared their intentions at World Water Week today to establish a global partnership to help countries, especially the poorest, improve management of water that is pumped but then lost or unaccounted for. Read the full […]