Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The pallid sturgeon is threatened because it can no longer travel far enough on the Missouri River to find a healthy place for its eggs to develop. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/science/pallid-sturgeon-montana-yellowstone-river.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 24, 2016 (ENS) – The Mingo Logan Coal Company has lost another round in the long legal battle to obtain a U.S. government permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, West Virginia, high in the Appalachian Mountains. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/24/court-upholds-u-s-epa-veto-of-mountaintop-removal-mine/
Published by the Environmental News Service MOSCOW, Russia, July 22, 2016 (ENS) – Russian chemist Dr. Valentin Parmon has won the 2016 Global Energy Prize for his work with new generation catalysts for the production of diesel and other motor fuels, fuel production from plant materials, and for the transformation of solar energy into chemical […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In California, state subsidies for hydrogen filling stations are encouraging clean-energy advocates to try fuel-cell vehicles. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/automobiles/water-out-the-tailpipe-a-new-class-of-electric-car-gains-traction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment While El Niño may be partially behind rising temperatures, NASA says greenhouse gases are the main culprit. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/nasa-global-temperatures-2016.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Solar and wind produce temporary power gluts that drive out other sources that are needed to maintain stable supplies. Worse, they are helping push nuclear power into bankruptcy. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/business/energy-environment/how-renewable-energy-is-blowing-climate-change-efforts-off-course.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 19, 2016 (ENS) – United Nations Headquarters was bustling with activity on Monday, full beyond capacity as island dwellers from around the world gathered for the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/19/new-partnerships-shield-vulnerable-small-island-states/
Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, July 19, 2016 (ENS) – United Nations Headquarters was bustling with activity on Monday, full beyond capacity as island dwellers from around the world gathered for the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/19/new-partnerships-protect-vulnerable-small-island-states/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A repopulation of cougars in the Eastern U.S., with their steady diet of deer, could reduce the number of lives lost to deer-automobile collisions. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/too-many-deer-on-the-road-let-cougars-return-study-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Algal blooms that have recently hit southeastern Florida waters are the latest of such environmental disasters that have hit with increasing frequency. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/algae-blooms-beaches.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Chemistry driven by mechanical force is radically different from the traditional way of dissolving, heating and stirring chemicals in a solution. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/green-chemistry-mechanochemistry.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Projections of potentially dangerous and costly algal blooms may become as common as weather reports, but first scientists need more funding. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/science/a-dreaded-forecast-for-our-times-algae-and-lots-of-it.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 18, 2016 (ENS) – The World Heritage Committee has inscribed nine new natural, or mixed natural and cultural, sites on the List of World Heritage: one transnational site – in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – and others in Canada, Chad, China, India, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and […]
Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2016 (ENS) – The Democratic and Republican platform planks on the environment, energy and climate change couldn’t be more different. The Democrats appear to be fully engaged in protection and restoration, while the Republicans are not. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/15/democrats-platform-eco-friendly-republicans-not/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Demand for organic crops so outstrips the supply that some food brands are underwriting farmers’ arduous and costly transition to organic production. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/business/paying-farmers-to-go-organic-even-before-the-crops-come-in.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples in digitized museum collections to produce an estimate of species in the South American rain forest. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/science/amazon-tree-species-inventory.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Southwestern Energy is leading an industry group that aims to cut methane leakage to less than 1 percent of national gas production. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/business/energy-environment/future-of-natural-gas-hinges-on-stanching-methane-leaks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 12, 2016 (ENS) – Of all the world’s unique natural areas threatened by logging, poaching, dam development and gillnet fishing, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is advising the United Nations to place five of them on the List of Heritage in Danger. Read the […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SANTIAGO, Chile, July 13, 2016 (ENS) – Chile’s capital city, Santiago, has just been awarded the honor of hosting Mobilize 2017, the new annual Sustainable Transport Summit put on by the New York-based multinational Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/07/12/chiles-capital-wins-2017-sustainable-transport-award/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment While activists can agree that something must be done, differences arise over exactly what and how, on issues like nuclear power and fracking. Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/climate-change-movement.html?partner=rss&emc=rss