(EnviroNews World News) — On February 14, 2018, the Court of Appeal in London ruled against the Nigerian communities of Bille and Ogale in their suit against Royal Dutch Shell for the environmental destruction of their lands and water due to oil spills. Law firm Leigh Day said…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — On February 5, 2018, a mere seven years after a disastrous triple nuclear meltdown, Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture is once again harvesting and shipping green laver seaweed as a food product. An article in the Japan Times cited “officials” as having…
(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center For Biological Diversity (the Center) launched an online petition, after President Donald Trump announced the largest national monument rollback in U.S. history on December 4, 2017, before a mostly Republican crowd in Salt Lake City, Utah. If successfully implemented, the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Gävle, Sweden — Wild boars (Sus scrofa) loaded with dangerous quantities of cesium 137 have been turning up in tests conducted in central Sweden. Some specimens have been found carrying levels as high as 16,000 becquerels of radioactivity per kilogram of meat — an…
(EnviroNews World News) — An airborne plume of radioactive ruthenium 106 from a nuclear accident was detected “in the atmosphere of the majority of European countries,” from late September through mid-October, according to France’s Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) — but the source is still unknown. As…
(EnviroNews World News) — Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy, Kenya — To the astonishment of local villagers, two white reticulated giraffes (Giraffa reticulata) emerged from the brush near the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy in Kenya’s Garissa County. Locals quickly notified rangers from the nearby Hirola Conservation Program — an organization setup…
(EnviroNews World News) — Taloja, Mumbai, India — On August 11, 2017, dogs with bright blue fur were spotted roaming the Taloja neighborhood in Mumbai, India. Concerned locals reported the unusual situation to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which determined industrial waste and dyes were being dumped…
(EnviroNews World News) Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — From the air, it’s been said that the areas directly surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant resemble a multi-colored “giant integrated circuit board.” That’s because more than 1,100 various and sundry tanks, housing radioactive water from the ongoing nuclear crisis,…
(EnviroNews World News) — India, a target of President Donald Trump’s wrath when he announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement (Paris Accord), is moving away from coal. That was evident on June 10, 2017, when the country’s government-owned Coal India Limited announced it…
(EnviroNews World News) — A video surfaced on June 30, 2017, displaying a gruesome event, but one filled with sweet revenge — at least if you are a bull. The video emerged on the website LiveLeak and was uploaded by the user Eoin Kelly, who didn’t have much…
(EnviroNews World News) — Henan, China — Viewers are furious with the content of a graphic video that has surfaced and is now circulating around the web. The contents: a dog, yelping and crying for its life, as it is boiled alive in front of a crowd of…
(EnviroNews World News) — The Chairman, and two Vice Presidents of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will stand trial for the death of 44 people who were killed in the ensuing melee following the March 11, 2011 triple nuclear reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Park City, Utah — On June 8, 2017, at the Waterkeeper Alliance International Conference in Park City, Utah, EnviroNews Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry sat down with legendary environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss an array of water-related topics, including mercury poisoning. Kennedy…
(EnviroNews Nature) — The following is an excerpt from the EnviroNews Nature full feature documentary Lions and Tigers and… Sage Grouse? Oh My! — The Granddaddy Endangered Species Battle of Them All. That film may be seen in its entirety on EnviroNews. The transcript reads as follows: Urry…
(EnviroNews World News) — Azraq, Jordan — The newly activated two-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan is the first refugee camp in the world to be powered by a renewable energy facility. The plant started running May 17, 2017, and will provide…
(EnviroNews World News) — Chornobyl, Ukraine — Three decades after the disastrous nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant, the site is once again set to produce electricity, but not from atomic reactors — this time from solar panels. Business Insider (BI) reported that a small 1.5-megawatt (MW)…
(EnviroNews World News) — A signable petition, published by the non-profit media and animal advocacy organization Lady Freethinker, is nearing its next signature milestone of 35,000 signers on the Change.org platform. The petition demands that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) stop the inadvertent careless poisoning of…
(EnviroNews Nature) — On World Wildlife Day, March 3, 2017, EnviroNews Nature released one of the largest and most expansive documentaries ever published on a wildlife species in peril — the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). The academic yet entertaining film spans a plethora of topics and includes…
(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — It’s certainly not the first time, and it very likely won’t be the last. For the umpteenth time, on Saturday, January 28, 2017, the antiquated Big West oil refinery in North Salt Lake City, Utah, spewed toxic black smoke…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Editor’s Note: The following news piece represents the forth in a 15-part mini-series titled, Nuclear Power in Our World Today, featuring nuclear authority, engineer and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen. The EnviroNews USA special encompasses a wide span of topics, ranging from Manhattan-era madness to…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Editor’s Note: The following news piece represents the third in a 15-part mini-series titled, Nuclear Power in Our World Today, featuring nuclear authority, engineer and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen. The EnviroNews USA special encompasses a wide span of topics, ranging from Manhattan-era madness to…
(EnviroNews California) — Monte Rio, California — Sonoma County, California is considered one of the most progressive, green and environmentally friendly counties in the United States, but a community Easter egg hunt that went down on March 26, 2016, called the area’s green reputation into question. EnviroKids correspondent…
(EnviroNews DC Bureau) — Editor’s Note: The following news piece represents the second in a 15-part mini-series titled, Nuclear Power in Our World Today, featuring nuclear authority, engineer and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen. The EnviroNews USA special encompasses a wide span of topics, ranging from Manhattan-era madness to the…
(EnviroNews DC Bureau) — Editor’s Note: The following news piece represents the first in a 15-part mini-series titled, Nuclear Power in Our World Today, featuring nuclear authority, engineer and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen. The EnviroNews USA special encompasses a wide span of topics, ranging from Manhattan-era madness to the…
(EnviroNews California) — Stockton, California — As the festering water crisis in Stockton, California continues to unfurl, legendary groundwater defender and celebrity activist Erin Brockovich arrived on the scene February 1, 2016, to add her voice to the many outraged voices from the community, already calling foul. Traveling…
(EnviroNews California) — Stockton, CA — At a packed and emotionally charged town-hall meeting on Feb 1, 2016, in Stockton, California, celebrated environmental activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich addressed a crowd of over 1,200 people concerning the city’s festering water crisis. After failing a compliance test for…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Des Moines, Iowa — A mock caucus event was held 7-900 pm on Friday January 29, 2016, at the Central Campus High School auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. Representatives from all three Democratic presidential campaigns were in attendance, making the case for why…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Des Moines, Iowa — At a mock caucus event held 7-900 pm on Friday January 29, 2016, at the Central Campus High School auditorium in Des Moines, representatives from all three Democratic presidential campaigns were on the scene, making pitches for why their…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Commerce City, Colorado — On Sept. 22, 2015, hand-in-hand with four western-state governors and the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell handed down what was surely the most anticipated wildlife announcement in United States history. The…
(EnviroNews California) — The hummingbird beats its tiny wings at about 80 times per second, which creates the bird’s infamous humming sound. These tiny little guys are the smallest birds in the world with 30 percent of their body composed of flight muscles. Hummingbirds are fascinating creatures, not…
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