(EnviroNews World News) — Gone but not forgotten, and now returned to the wild. Five thousand years ago, as many as one million scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) grazed the steppes and subdeserts of North Africa. The white-bodied antelopes with russet necks are well adapted to this hot, arid…
(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) has launched an online petition via the Care2 platform demanding Department of the Interior (Interior) Secretary Ryan Zinke “deny any request by Alaska for predator control in wildlife refuges.” This, after House Joint Resolution 69…
(EnviroNews World News) — Kobe, Japan — For more than two million Americans, straight lines may look wavy and the vision in the center of their eye may slowly disappear. It’s called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and there is no cure. But that may change soon. A surgical…
(EnviroNews World News) — A study published April 6, 2017, in Nature.com‘s Scientific Reports, examined 17 sea salt brands from eight different countries and found chemical impurities in all 17 samples. The primary contaminants include microplastics and pigments associated with textile, rubber and fiberglass products. The study was…
(EnviroNews World News) — North Rhein Westphalia, Germany — The Prosper-Haniel hard coal mine, slated to be shut down in 2018 when government subsidies run out, is being repurposed to become a giant battery for excess power created by renewable energy sources. Located in North Rhein Westphalia, the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Salubiro Village, Indonesia — On March 29, 2017, in a rural village in Indonesia, a ghastly scene unfolded for all to see and has been captured on video. Friends of a missing farmer sliced open a 23-foot long reticulated python (Python reticulatus) and were…
(EnviroNews World News) — Mexico City, Mexico — A large bull with the number 522 spray-painted on his side has taken gory revenge after first being speared multiple times in a bullfight in Mexico City with bullfighter Antonio Romero, in mid-March of 2017. In what the New York…
(EnviroNews World News) — A simply delightful drone video was posted by sea life conservation group the Leatherback Trust on March 21, 2017, showing a rather large East Pacific leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) swimming with swan-like grace, not through water, but over a sandy beach on its way…
(EnviroNews World News) — The winds of change are blowing strong in Denmark as the shift to wind power enabled the Danes to create 97 gigawatts of electricity on Feb. 22, 2017. That’s enough to power 10 million European homes. During that same day, Europe generated 18.8 percent…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Radioactive wild boars are running amok near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant on the eastern coast of Japan. The animals have migrated down from the mountains into the virtual ghost towns surrounding the site of the world’s worst nuclear…
(EnviroNews World News) — The French Air Force is taking drone defense to a whole new level. Their state-of-the-art weapons: four golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos). Yes, you did read that right, as in the living bird, and this aerial quartet has been trained since birth to take out…
(EnviroNews World News) — According to an article published by Mosiac on Jan. 17, 2017, Iceland has had remarkable success in stopping teens from abusing drugs and alcohol. Author Emma Young writes that Icelandic teens are the cleanest living in all of Europe with only 5 percent having…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Dismantling the crumpled reactors and recovering the melted fuel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in eastern Japan now relies on technology that hasn’t even been invented yet, as Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) flies blindly into an abyss…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — On February 2, 2017, radiation levels in the Reactor 2 vessel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 power plant in eastern Japan, were measured at the highest levels since the triple reactor core meltdowns on March 11, 2011, The…
(EnviroNews World News) — Manila, Philippines — On Jan. 6, 2017, environmental journalist Mario Contaoi was shot dead in the Northern Philippines. According to the Manila Times, Contaoi was riding his motorcycle when he was shot by tandem riders on the national highway. He later died in the…
(EnviroNews California) — Cobb, California — The devastation is heart-wrenching — the destruction, jaw-dropping. These were the emotions I was experiencing as local EnviroNews California rolled through the rubbled, smoldering, evacuation zone inside Northern California’s raging “Valley Fire.” Seasoned veteran firefighters from Cal Fire, who’ve been fighting fires…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — The following transcript is extracted from the EnviroNews USA full feature documentary Medical Waste Madness — ‘The Devil’s Work’: The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that over 98% of medical students recite on graduation day. Their sacred…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Douglas, Wyoming — In late April a gloomy report was issued by Pew Charitable Trusts that claims there is a 98.7 percent chance greater sage grouse will go extinct in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin in 30 years if the current course continues. The Powder River…
(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Douglas, Wyoming — On April 21, 2015 Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Sally Jewell appeared in Reno, Nevada to make a pivotal Bi-State Sage Grouse Announcement: No protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the bi-state distinct population of the greater…
(EnviroNews Nevada) — Reno, Nevada — To the dismay and disappointment of environmentalists, conservationists and biologist alike, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell announced on April 21, 2015 (which also happened to be Earth Day) that the bi-state sage grouse will not be making its way…
(EnviroNews Idaho) — Payette, Idaho — Idaho fracking activist Alma Hasse is seeking $1.5 million in damages from Payette County after being arrested at a public hearing and held in the county jail for eight days in October of 2104. On April 6, 2015, Hasse, represented by Nicholas…
(EnviroNews Idaho) — It’s been six months since Idaho activist Alma Hasse was arrested during a public Payette County Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) meeting and her legal troubles stemming from the incident are now over. On April 2, 2015 the charges brought by Payette County against Hasse…
(EnviroNews Idaho) — There’s been a lot in the way of local news about the imperiled Centrocercus urophasianus as of late, or sage grouse as it is commonly called. State governments and ranchers, as well as coal, oil, gas and mining companies, all have their meddling-hands in the…
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(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — As the Utah legislative season moved toward a final curtain (by law, the lawmaking ends on the 45th day at midnight), the big decisions left to be made fell into categories including those that would need money to enact and…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Senate Bill 87, authored by Senator Gene Davis, was considered by many to be the strongest air pollution bill in the lineup in this year’s legislative session at the Utah Capitol. To the disappointment of many air warriors, that bill…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — A groundswell of public outcry, building over more than three years, has led to further attempts by Utah’s legislature to respond to the demand for air quality improvement. This is especially important in the northern, metropolitan areas of the state…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — The day after Utah had experienced hurricane-force winds that blew particulate matter out of Utah’s typically stagnant and nastily polluted airshed, Senator Scott K. Jenkins of Weber and Davis Counties told his colleagues and our news camera, “The fact is,…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — When little Ella, Abby and Anna got up in front of the Utah House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee on February 13, 2015, they repeated a common yet sad message that shocks many people when they hear it for…
(EnviroNews Idaho) — Boise, Idaho — Private property rights for Idaho landowners have been ceded by the Republican party running the legislature. An example of this recently unfolded during 2015’s ongoing legislative session in Boise, Idaho, as lawmakers consider new rules for the oil and gas industry. One…
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