Sandy Eco-Restoration Gets $1 Billion+ in Federal Grants; Terrafugia Develops Plug-in Hybrid Flying Car; U.S., South Korean Leaders Affirm Climate Change ...
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“Most people know in their hearts that we will sooner or later be putting a price on carbon. It’s happened in California, it’s happened in British Columbia with the carbon tax, which is a much simpler more direct way,” he said. “The point is, we’re going to get there. We need to be mu...
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii , May 11, 2013 (ENS) – For the first time in human history, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, have risen above 400 parts per million, ppm. Many climate scientists warn that 350 ppm is the safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere....
WASHINGTON, DC , May 7, 2013 (ENS) – In her first foreign visit since taking office in February, South Korean President Park Geun-hye joined with President Barack Obama today to declare both governments’ intention to fight climate change. In a joint news conference at the White House ...
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal emphasized that the disaster continues in his state. “It has been over three years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded, causing a spill estimated to reach five million barrels of oil, unprecedented rates of dispersants and natural gas to ...
MISSOULA, Montana , May 3, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to remove a population of grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act, under which they are now listed as a threatened species. On Thursday, the Service issued for public comment a draft conserva...
WASHINGTON, DC , April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Support for global action to curb climate change is growing stronger within the G8 group of the world’s largest industrial democracies, which includes the United States and Japan. During an April 14 meeting in Tokyo, U.S. Secretary of State John...
CANBERRA, Australia , May 1, 2013 (ENS) – Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will argue Australia’s whaling case against Japan in a three week hearing before the International Court of Justice in the Hague beginning on June 26. “I welcome the announcement of the International Co...
The watershed supports production of all five species of Pacific salmon found in North America: sockeye, coho, Chinook, chum, and pink. Because no hatchery fish are raised or released in the watershed, Bristol Bay’s salmon populations are entirely wild. These fishes are anadromous, me...
