(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has formally endorsed a controversial plan by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) — the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant — to start dumping more than a million tons of radioactive wastewater from the…
(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) — After a 30-year hiatus, Japan intends to allow businesses to resume commercial whale hunting in July 2019. According to NPR’s Anthony Kuhn, Japan is also justifying the country’s withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which banned commercial whaling in the 1980s, stating that…
(EnviroNews World News) — Tokyo, Japan — Nearly five years in to what has unfurled as arguably the worst manmade environmental catastrophe in history, Japanese prosecutors are set to hand down the first criminal indictments over the nuclear reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi. Former Chairman of Tokyo Electric…
(EnviroNews World News) — Portland, Oregon — The Department of Interior’s green-light in May for Royal Dutch Shell’s deep-ocean drilling plan in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, has drawn more public outcry than any oil drilling scheme in recent history — and possibly ever. Greenpeace has been spearheading the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Moo or False? Cows are a bigger contributor to climate change than cars? That would be moo. It was questions similar to this one (composed by EnviroNews) that were asked respectfully by The Guardian reporter Travis Irvine to a bunch of very sexy looking…
(EnviroNews World News) — Vancouver, BC — In the wake of yesterday’s protest wherein Audrey Seigl, a Native American First Nations activist, put her body in front of the 300-foot-tall “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig with only a feather and a drum, Greenpeace Canada’s “Save the Arctic”…
(EnviroNews World News) — British Columbia — On June 17, 2015, Native American First Nations Greenpeace activist Audrey Seigl stood on an inflatable boat, smack-dab in the path of Shell Oil’s behemoth, 300-foot-tall, “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig — with nothing but a round-drum and a feather…
(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) — Washington D.C. — The Obama Administration has finally done it. They have approved an even bigger carbon bomb than what would be created by the bitumen that would flow through the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline should it be ultimately approved. More Powder River Basin…
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