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SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - Honorary Sierra Club President and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Dr. Edgar Wayburn died late Friday night at his home in San Francisco in the presence of his family. He was 103.
The environmental community is mourning the death of the five-ter...
SAN JOSE, California, March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Scientists at IBM and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have developed a new method of making plastics that will permit more than one recycling cycle.
While plastics are recyclable today, the resulting materials have been limited to second gener...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - Bipartisan legislation that promises the largest federal investment ever to clean up the Great Lakes - $650 million annually for the next five years - has been introduced in the Senate and in the House to applause from environmental groups.
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times Dot Earth blog revealed recently leaked email memos and publicly available written pieces that show climate scientists furiously debating the best strategy for reclaiming public support for green initiatives.
Last weekend, the who's who of Western entertainment gathered in Los Angeles to cheer on the winners of coveted Oscar awards. The winner of the best documentary Oscar, "The Cove," got a much different reaction from the residents of the town that served as the film's location. That's because the docu...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - A Siberian section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that stores vast amounts of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and is venting the potent greenhouse gas, an international research team reported Friday.
The permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - The Supreme Court today sided with environmental advocates by declining to review a lower court ruling that forbid the U.S. EPA to exempt industrial polluters from regular emissions standards during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" events.
The federal government announced that $100 million in stimulus funds would be directed to the newly formed ARPA-E research program. Modeled after the Pentagon's DARPA program, whose high-risk research lead to the development of the internet, GPS, and large military advancements, the ARPA-E program c...
LOS ANGELES, California, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - "The Cove," an American film documenting the annual killing of dolphins in a cove near the Japanese village of Taiji, was awarded an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Sunday night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Directed by former N...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - Senator Jay Rockefeller has introduced legislation to impose a two-year moratorium on the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other stationary emitters.
The bill is the latest salvo in the battle over whic...
