Environmental News

In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour. Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future. Pledge...
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WASHINGTON – US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling. Kerry’s bill, which is similar to a bill before the House of Representatives, would affirm US support for a 1986 ban by...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – A group of several half-naked women covered in fake blood staged a protest in front of the Canadian consulate in Barcelona on Monday to denounce the country’s annual seal hunt. The animal rights activists lay in Barcelona’s Plaza de Catalunya while men dressed as hunters pretended to beat them with...
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DOHA, Qatar – The world has “failed miserably” at protecting tigers in the wild, bringing an animal that is a symbol for many cultures and religions to “the verge of extinction,” a top official with the United Nations wildlife agency said Monday. Just 20 years ago there were 100,000 tigers in Asia, but now only...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Whale researchers returned from Antarctic waters Monday after a six-week expedition that they said proved Japan’s annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary. During the voyage, Australian, French and New Zealand scientists used nonlethal techniques to study whales. It was a challenge to Japan’s scientific program, which kills up...
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LÍDER INDÍGENA AMAZÓNICO VIAJO A CALIFORNIA PARA ENTREGAR  325.000 FIRMAS DE RESPALDO San Francisco, CA.- Emergildo Criollo, líder de la nacionalidad Cofán de la Amazonía ecuatoriana viajó a California para entregar una comunicación con 325.000 firmas de adhesión de personas de todo el mundo, urgiendo al nuevo gerente general de Chevron,  John Watson, a limpiar...
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Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, creating an environmental tragedy experts call “the Amazon Chernobyl.” This systematic contamination has left tens of thousands of local indigenous people and campesinos suffering an epidemic of cancer, miscarriages,...
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Authorities are investigating a Chinese zoo where three dozen animals including 13 rare Siberian tigers died recently, amid charges it was harvesting their parts, state media said Monday. The probe of the zoo in the northeastern city of Shenyang will look at whether the animal parts were being used as ingredients in Chinese medicine and...
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An international science academies panel will review the workings of the United Nation’s Nobel-Prize-winning climate report, officials announced Wednesday. The move follows criticism of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report, sparked by news accounts of a Himalayan glacier error in the report. It suggested the glaciers would be gone by 2035, where they...
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Liebe Freunde und Freundinnen, Die endgültige Entscheidung steht, nach jahrelanger rechtlicher Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Ölmulti Chevron und mutigen Indigenen aus dem ecuadorianischen Amazonasgebiet, unmittelbar bevor. Die Bewohner verlangen Entschädigungen und die Entsorgung von Millionen Tonnen giftiger Abfälle im Regenwald. Wenn Chevron zur Bezahlung von mehreren Milliarden Dollar Schadensersatz verurteilt wird, wäre dies ein riesiger Schritt dahin,...
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