(EnviroNews World News) — Madrid, Spain — The United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP25) failed to reach any significant agreements in Madrid despite an additional two days being added to the meeting. Held from Dec. 2 through 13, the meeting brought together 195 countries to discuss…
(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) — 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) — 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) — 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) — No doubt about it, the 2016 presidential election has been one of the most divisive ever, and has pitted even the best of friends and family members against one another. It’s been so contentious in fact, that many people have even taken the drastic…
(EnviroNews World News) — Donald Trump will crack down on “politicized science,” and his first target is NASA’s Earth Sciences Division. According to Trump senior advisor Bob Walker, the President-elect’s administration will cut the budget for that program altogether. “We see NASA in an exploration role, in deep…
(EnviroNews World News) — There’s not a lot that can be said in the introduction to explain the contents of this absolutely hilarious animated commercial out of Japan, featuring mainstream media dominator and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — you just have to see it for yourself. The…
(EnviroNews Polls) — A Republican presidential debate was held in Miami, Florida on March 10, 2016. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Marco Rubio squared off on the CNN-hosted platform. As a matter of policy, the EnviroNews Editorial Board never endorses political candidates. Therefore, we put it…
(EnviroNews Polls) — Houston, Texas — The remaining five Republican presidential candidates squared off for the last time before Super Tuesday, on February 25, 2016, in Houston, Texas. The forum was hosted by CNN and moderated by Wolf Blitzer in front of a pumped up crowd. Blitzer was…
(EnviroNews Polls) — The kid mitts came off on February 13, 2016, as multiple blows, and low-blows, were exchanged in myriad directions at the final Republican presidential debate before the South Carolina primaries. The event was hosted by CBS at the Peace Center Performing Arts Center in Greenville,…
(EnviroNews World News) — An American bald eagle smacked Donald Trump upside the head in August of 2015 when he was prepping for a TIME Magazine cover story. To be clear, the eagle bashed him in the hair not once, but several times — real quick like —…
(EnviroNews World News) — Waterloo, Iowa — On October 8, 2015, a group of protestors, including senior citizens, from the group The Climate Mobilization, momentarily busted up a Donald Trump stump speech when they interrupted the presidential candidate with chants exclaiming, “climate action now.” The Climate Mobilization is…
(EnviroNews World News) — Donald Trump reiterated via the Twittersphere last week that he would “immediately approve the Keystone XL Pipeline” is he is elected president. Is anyone surprised? If I am elected President I will immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline. No impact on environment & lots…