(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…
(EnviroNews World News) — A massive new study examined and analyzed over 5.7 million children spanning five countries. The result: A new claim that teen moms, and older parents of both sexes, are at higher risk of reproducing an autistic child. The study concluded that dads over the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii — The first-ever grid-connected wave energy converter (WEC) system in the United States was brought online during the first week of June, 2015 at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Kaneohe Bay on Oahu. The prototype system,…
(EnviroNews World News) — Unityville, Pennsylvania — A group by the name of Beyond Extreme Energy sent in a fresh-on-the-wire press release to EnviroNews USA on June 11, 2015. The subject: Ongoing outrage and fear, near the Pennsylvania community of Unityville, over a Williams Companies, Inc., natural gas…
(EnviroNews World News) — Green colored lightbulbs/heating lamps that are literally alive — that’s what’s been circulating around the web recently, as Living Things, a green product exhibit, rolled out at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The unique system features a series of…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — When House Bill 2407, a.k.a. School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015, was introduced in mid-May by U.S. Representatives Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) and Joe Courtney (D-CT), it was followed by a hail of firebombs from the media and activist groups alike….
(EnviroNews World News) — The No Shampoo (or ‘No ‘Poo’ for short) Movement is on the rise in America and beyond for several reasons — the primary being people want to get themselves, and their precious children away from the toxic chemicals in conventional shampoo that harm health…
(EnviroNews World News) — Phoenix, Arizona — Well, it’s happened again. “It,” meaning the passage into law, of some unrelated, completely irrelevant deed — irrelevant that is, in relation to America’s annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA — a spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense…
(EnviroNews World News) — Laikipia Kenya — It turns out that poachers can pillage a species right out of existence. That is in essence what has happened to the African northern white rhino, as game officials in Kenya try desperately to breed the last known male on the…
(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH — There’s a petition traveling around out there online that is attempting to put pressure on Quaker, and its parent company Pepsi Co. The goal is to see the companies do a complete 180 on their position on the labeling of genetically…
(EnviroNews World News) — St. Paul, Minnesota — On June 6, 2015, over 5,000 took to the streets in protest of tar sands in the Twin Cities. The event titled the “Tar Sands Resistance March” drew a mass of people, equipped with signs and chants, wielding a unified…
(EnviroNews World News) — Well, it’s happened again — this time in the Sooner State of Oklahoma. It would appear that big oil with its limitless financial lobby power is afraid — shaking in its boots at the prospect of local cities and municipalities saying “hell no” to…
(EnviroNews Utah) – A little boy is jolted out of bed by a boom so loud it seems as though a massive bomb has been detonated near by. Well that little boy was the Founder of this very news organization. The town, Hooper, Utah. And it wasn’t a…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – This rather sizable lion pride from South Africa was seen here just lying and panting around after engorging themselves to a simply incapacitating level from a very convenient opportunity, where an old rhino had passed away. His horn had been removed by game…
(EnviroNews Montana) – Welcome to the official opening of EnviroNews Montana. Please enjoy a lovely change of pace with this short film featuring picturesque video clips emanating from two of Montana’s most pristine wilderness areas. The Beartooth Mountain Range and Montana’s Bitter Root Valley are legendary for their…
(EnviroNews California) – The battle over the safety of raw milk has been heating up over the past several years, and Organic Pastures Dairy Co. has been at the forefront of this food safety war, a war that they, and countless other Americans say, is nothing more than…
(EnviroNews Utah) – From the EnviroNews Utah archives, this incredible and simply angelic sunset was filmed as part of a project that had the time consuming goal of time-lapsing 100 breathtaking sunsets on Antelope Island in the downright awesome ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake. One might ask:…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – The day has finally arrived, and climate hero Tim DeChristopher, a.k.a. “Bidder 70” is free of the Federal prison system, well minus three years of crummy and cumbersome probation. In this segment, we recap what was truly one of the most inspiring, yet…
(EnviroNews Nature) – Often witnessed under attack by hoards of small and pesky little birds, this tiny fella’, small and active by day, is constantly on the look out for both danger and prey. The pearl-spotted owl (Glaucidium perlatum) stands 20 or less centimeters tall, and weight a…
(EnviroNews Idaho) – From the land of potatoes and hot springs, we bring to you this special EnviroNews edition that represents the official launch of the sixth local EnviroNews affiliate news bureau. Idaho, a vast terrain that to this day harbors long stretches of largely unadulterated wilderness, is…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – “It never worked before, I seriously doubt if it’ll work now!” These were the words uttered by this mysterious oil and gas CEO of 20 years regarding tar sands in the United States in general. When we asked him about the Kyestone XL…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) – In one of those boggling moments that life can throw you, our EnviroNews Wyoming cameraman was standing there quietly filming some beautiful and nature-filled backdrops in Yellowstone National Park when he noticed something very peculiar. As he looked over his right shoulder he noticed what…
(EnviroNews Oregon) – Welcome to EnviroNews Oregon! This extraordinary film captured a blazing fire-red sky that left all in awe who witnessed it. From the EnviroNews nature and wildlife archives, this magnificent and colorful video was shot over Mt. Hood, Oregon, and serves as the official launch of…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) – In what is to serve as the official launch of EnviroNews Wyoming, this awesome video from the archives demonstrates a very young black bear grazing on grass and various plants in a large meadow in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. While taping the episode, the…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – We finally made it happen! The official launch of our Nature and Wildlife division that has been quietly brewing and simmering on the back-burner in our archives for many years here at EnviroNews. The “other worldly ecosystem” of Antelope Island, in the middle…
(EnviroNews California via Community Watch Blog) – In a high traffic zone of buzzing, bustling, and boisterous kindergarten through 2nd grade students at Brookhaven Elementary School in Sebastopol, CA, we saw some pretty awesome looking and even delicious tasting science projects. One project focused on the scientific difference…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On March 23rd, protestors of the now approved tar sands project in PR Springs, Utah delivered a row of small coffins to the Chevron Refinery in Salt Lake City, in response to the refineries recent expansion plans that would enable them to accommodate future tar…
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