Scientists have demonstrated a clear link between the 11-year sun cycle and winter weather over the northern hemisphere for the first time. They found that low solar activity can contribute to cold winters in the UK,...
SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 15, 2011 (ENS) - Transportation and energy ministers from 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to make their transportation systems cleaner and more...
By Mark Hertsgaard
WASHINGTON, DC, October 5, 2011 (ENS) - Some years ago I was traveling through Kenya during a ferocious drought. Crossing a desolate landscape, our truck lurched to a sudden halt. We passengers,...
LONDON, UK, October 5, 2011 (ENS) - Oil giant Shell has contributed to human rights abuses in Nigeria by funding armed militants, who are implicated in the killing and torture of residents in the oil-rich Niger...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 4, 2011 (ENS) - Indonesia's President has pledged to dedicate the last three years of his administration to safeguarding his nation's rainforests, a pledge that received broad support at a...
SINGAPORE, September 29, 2011 (ENS) - A fire at Shell's Pulau Bukom refinery on an island near the Singapore mainland was extinguished late Thursday night, local time, after blazing intermittently for 36 hours. The...
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 26, 2011 (ENS) - Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, passed away at the Nairobi Hospital Sunday, while undergoing treatment for cancer. She...
BANGKOK, Thailand, September 26, 2011 (ENS) - Thailand's rivers are being increasingly polluted by industrial wastewater and solid waste dumping, but activists and residents say the Thai government has no clear...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, September 19, 2011 (ENS) - New Zealand's largest conservation organization today lodged an appeal against a permit granted by the New Zealand government for an open-cast coal mine on...
NEW YORK, New York, September 19, 2011 (eNS) - One in four mammals, one in eight birds and more than one in three amphibians are now at risk of extinction, according to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by...
