Ways To Protect Our Environment

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 1, 2008 (ENS) - The International Whaling Commission wound up its annual meeting here Friday without achieving new protections for whales or resolving the deep rifts that divide the member governments into pro-whaling and pro-conservation factions.
The meeting centered on the future of the commission with only brief clashes between the two factions, […]

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NAIROBI, Kenya, June 26, 2008 (ENS) - Kenya’s Tana River Delta, inhabited by 350 species of birds, lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles, is about to be converted to sugar cane production over the objections of conservationists and local communities.
Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority, NEMA, has approved a proposal by the Mumias Sugar Company, a […]

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SANTIAGO, Chile, June 24, 2008 (ENS) - With whaling nations and their allies on one side and pro-conservation nations on the other, annual meetings of the International Whaling Commission have been increasingly gridlocked and acrimonious. But today at the 60th annual IWC meeting in Santiago there was a breakthrough. The 81 member governments agreed on […]

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WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2008 (ENS) - The U.S. Supreme Court today accepted a request by the U.S. Navy that the court review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the Navy’s use of loud sonar blasts in submarine detection training exercises off the coast of Southern California.
The Navy, in its official environmental assessment […]

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 23, 2008 (ENS) - Many bird species migrating to Massachusetts from points south are arriving earlier each spring as temperatures warm along the east coast of the United States. Some of those species migrate thousands of miles from South America, but a new study shows that the farther the birds travel, the […]

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PASADENA, California, June 23, 2008 (ENS) - A new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite was lofted into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base early Friday morning on a three year mission to record sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change.
The mission is expected to return a vast amount of new data that will […]

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WASHINGTON, DC, June 18, 2008 (ENS) - President George W. Bush today called on Congress to expand domestic oil production to lower record high oil and gas prices by lifting a ban on oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf that has been in place since 1981.
Drilling for oil offshore is one of four measures […]

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African Rhino Numbers Rise, Yet One Type Sinks Into Extinction
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GLAND, Switzerland, June 17, 2008 (ENS) - Populations of most African rhinos are increasing as a result of conservation efforts, but one sub-species, the Northern white rhino, may already be extinct, the world’s most expert rhino specialists said today. Just four animals were counted in 2006, […]

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Honda Rolls Out Petroleum-Free Fuel Cell Car
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TOCHIGI, Japan, June 16, 2008 (ENS) - Honda’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle other than concept cars rolled off the assembly line today in Tochigi Prefecture at the world’s first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility. Nineteen years in development, the FCX Clarity was designed from scratch as […]

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“New scientific study shows shark numbers in the Mediterranean have crashed by 99%
A new scientific study funded in part by the Lenfest Ocean Program has concluded that all shark species assessed in the Mediterranean Sea declined by more than 97 percent in abundance and “catch weight” over the last 200 years.
The findings of the study, […]

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