Environmental News Roundup – Mar. 11, 2015
Here’s how much faster wind and solar are growing than fossil fuels Electricity generated from wind and solar grew a lot faster than electricity generated by fossil fuels last year. In fact, solar...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – Mar. 18, 2015
The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse. Humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – Apr. 1, 2015
New U.S. Climate Target Is Achievable and Sends an Important Signal to the World The U.S. formally proposed that it would cut its emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. This emissions...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – Apr. 8, 2015
ADM Announces Plan to Fight Deforestation Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest commodities suppliers, has joined the growing number of major agriculture and food companies promising to...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – Apr. 15, 2015
World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino Placed Under 24-Hour Armed Guard In Kenya After the decimation of his species by poachers, Sudan the rhino finds himself in a extremely precarious position: He...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – Earth Day 2015
Earth Day’s Importance and Evolution Since 1970 Decades later, we find the issue of environmental protection has evolved in a number of important ways. Environmental pollution is widely seen as a...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – May 6, 2015
Tesla ventures into solar power storage for home and business In recent years, the fast-growing popularity of solar panels has intensified a central challenge: how to use the sun’s energy when it...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – May 13, 2015
Alaska’s tricky intersection of Obama’s energy and climate legacies President Obama’s move to open up vast, untouched Arctic waters to oil and gas drilling as he pursues an ambitious plan to fight...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – May 20, 2015
Cleanup of 21,000-gallon oil spill resumes off Santa Barbara County coast The rupture on an 11-mile-long underground pipe, part of a larger oil transport network centered in Kern County, was first...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Roundup – May 27, 2015
California oil spill: officials hopes to get first look at ruptured pipeline Workers on Tuesday began digging up the soil around a pipe that ruptured and spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil...
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