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BREAKING: All Charges Against Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman Dropped

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Mandan, North Dakota — EDITOR’S NOTE: Before this story could get far this morning, it was reported from the ground that charges against Amy Goodman, the award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!, have been dropped. For more on this story, please check…

Colossal Pacific Salmon Run Reduced to Rubble — Climate Change To Blame Say Scientists

(EnviroNews Nature) — British Columbia, Canada – Salmon returning to the Fraser, the longest river in British Columbia (BC), were at their lowest level since record keeping began this fall. Fewer than 900,000 sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) are projected to have returned to their traditional breeding grounds, causing commercial…

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Escorted From Presidential Debate By Police

(EnviroNews D.C. News Bureau) — Hempstead, New York — On Sept. 27, 2016, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein attempted to gain access to the first debate between Republican and Democratic candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but was instead shut down by police due to what some…

U.S. Government Backs Down on Plan to Slaughter 45,000 Wild Horses Following Public Outrage

(EnviroNews Nature) The Humane Society referred to it as “cruel” and a “complete abdication of responsibility.” That was the tone of the countless criticisms used to describe the advice from a third party advisory panel of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to send some 45,000 wild horses…

Arrest Warrant Issued For Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! After Her Kick-Ass Reporting on Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — The award-winning team at Democracy Now! has announced that an arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for host and Executive Producer Amy Goodman. The show reports its celebrated anchor is being charged with criminal trespass — a misdemeanor offense. The warrant…

Ya’ Think Hummingbirds Have the Fastest Birds Wings? (Not Even Close) — Wings So Fast They Sing Like Violins

(EnviroNews Nature) — When we think of wings we think of flying – not music. Yet one of the world’s most unusual birds has evolved to sacrifice many of flight’s benefits, in exchange for song. It’s true that nearly all wings are designed to favor one attribute of…

EDITORIAL: Newly Uncovered Secret Rules Allowing FBI To Spy on Journalists Are Outrageous

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EDITORIAL: EnviroNews, across the board, in its various bureaus and divisions, reports primarily on the environment, energy, health, nature and wildlife — but not exclusively on those topics. We do cover stories in other areas of high importance — when the situation calls…

‘Secret’ Federal Agency Admits Killing 3.2 Million Wild Animals in U.S. Last Year Alone

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) admitted in its annual Program Data Report to having killed at least 3.2 million wild animals in 2015 alone — many of which were large predators. 1,681,283 of that total…

Five Environmental Groups Sue USDA Over Idaho Wolf-Killing Program

(EnviroNews Idaho) — Boise, Idaho — On June 1, 2016, five prominent environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services for killing over 650 wolves in the state of Idaho over the past decade. Wildlife Services is…

Report: 86% of North America’s Bird Species Struggling or in Crisis — 33% Facing Extinction

(EnviroNews Nature) — One in three North American bird species are of “high concern” to conservationists with an additional 50 percent struggling badly, according to the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI). The group’s annual report The State of North America’s Birds 2016 makes for grim reading by…

New Stanford Study Links Fracking to Drinking Water Contamination in Pavillion, WY (Again)

(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Pavillion, Wyoming — A new study published on March 29, 2016, by authors from Stanford University, has linked the practice of hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking,” to pollution of underground sources of drinking water (USDW) in Pavillion, Wyoming — a connection those same researchers say is…

Feds Attempting to Strip Yellowstone Grizzly Bear of Endangered Species Act Protection

(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Missoula, Montana — In a move that has angered environmentalists and wildlife enthusiasts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed on March 3, 2016, to strip the iconic Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear of its protected status under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),…

Federal Government Sued For Killing Wolves in Oregon

(EnviroNews Oregon) — Five environmental groups filed a lawsuit on February 3, 2016, in U.S. District Court against the federal agency Wildlife Services, over what they say is the illegitimate killing of wolves in the state of Oregon. WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, Predator Defense, and Project…

Bernie Sanders Blows Away The Field in Iowa ‘Climate Emergency Caucus’

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Des Moines, Iowa — At a model caucus event, aptly named “Climate Emergency Caucus,” held Friday January 29, 2016, from 7-9:00 pm at Central Campus High School, Bernie Sanders not only won — he flat out smoked the competition — leaving both Hillary…

Editorial: Media Should Discuss EDTA and Other Chelation Therapies For Children of Flint

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — EDITORIAL: As the largely minority, impoverished population of Flint, Michigan continues to reel from Governor Rick Snyder’s lead-poisoning scandal (yes Snyder needs to own it fully), we, at EnviroNews, have heard over and over in the beltway media, slogans uttered again and again…