(EnviroNews World News) — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Historically speaking, Oklahoma used to be a place where almost no palpable earthquakes happened at all — but hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking” has changed all that now. Between the dates June 17 and June 24, 2015, Oklahoma was jolted by…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) — In March of 2015, in a milestone announcement, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued rules to guide the oil and gas industry on the controversial practice known as “fracking.” The first-time federal fracking rules closely mimic guideposts already in place at the state level…
(EnviroNews World News) — Paris, France — “Someone in France accidentally ate a fluorescent lamb with jellyfish DNA,” The Verge has reported. The animal in question named Rubis, was the offspring of a lamb named Emeraude — and both were part of a science-fiction-like experiment called “Green Sheep”…
(EnviroNews World News) — Vancouver, BC — In the wake of yesterday’s protest wherein Audrey Seigl, a Native American First Nations activist, put her body in front of the 300-foot-tall “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig with only a feather and a drum, Greenpeace Canada’s “Save the Arctic”…
(EnviroNews World News) — British Columbia — On June 17, 2015, Native American First Nations Greenpeace activist Audrey Seigl stood on an inflatable boat, smack-dab in the path of Shell Oil’s behemoth, 300-foot-tall, “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig — with nothing but a round-drum and a feather…
(EnviroNews World News) — A petition was started by Ric O’Barry of the group Dolphin Project with the goal of pressuring Vladimir Putin to put an end to the, at times, deadly capturing of Orca Whales. As of June 15, 2015, the petition has 4,243 signatures and maintains…
(EnviroNews World News) — Mila De Mier is a South Florida real estate businesswoman and mother who launched a petition on Change.org nearly three years ago. The cause: Stop the release of the OX513A genetically modified mosquito into Key Haven before it happens at all. That petition is…
(EnviroNews World News) — Key West, Florida — EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Yellow Fever Mosquito” discussed in this article is the same species that transmits Zika Virus. Mosquitos can be one helluva a nuisance — and with those pesky little critters comes myriad illnesses, but two in particular have…
(EnviroNews World News) — Port Vila, Vanuatu — On Monday, June 8, 2015, members of the G7, the world’s seven largest countries, met in Germany where an historic promise was made by world leaders — a pledge to rid the earth of carbon burning by the year 2100….
(EnviroNews World News) — Fox Creek, Alberta — More earthquakes have rattled Alberta, Canada, “from Fox Creek to Peace River [according to] experts and regulators,” The Tyee has reported, and those quakes were man-caused. What’s more, according to those same Alberta regulators, the seismic events were set off…
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