(EnviroNews World News) — Linden, New Jersey — The Honorable Superior Court Judge Michael Hogan said he will make a decision “Monday or Tuesday” on whether or not he will allow seven environmental groups and state Democratic lawmakers to intervene in a settlement proposed between Exxon Mobil Corp…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington, DC — It seems like we, at EnviroNews, have been reporting on this type of thing all year. That is, sketchy environmental riders being attached to totally unrelated appropriations bills in backdoor efforts to kill environmental and wildlife protections. Yes, this year’s spending…
(EnviroNews World News) — Zooplankton have been captured on film feasting on plastic microbeads for the first time New Scientist magazine has reported. The entire three hour event took place inside a single drop of water and was taped under the microscope by Five Films. The unique footage…
(EnviroNews World News) — While it’s certainly debatable as to what the smartest animals in the world are, it may be less disputable when attempting to zero in on the world’s smartest bird. While conducting research for this article, we were not surprised to find dozens upon dozens…
(EnviroNews World News) — Maryville, Tennessee — A community is still reeling after a train derailment and subsequent oil car explosion and toxic fire in Maryville, Tennessee, in the early morning hours on July 2, 2015. Over 5,000 people were evacuated overnight spanning a two mile radius. As…
(EnviroNews World News) — The male gender will go to some pretty great lengths to attract a suitable female companion, but few in the wild world of nature can put on a show like Australia’s flamboyant lyrebird. A member of the Menuridae family, there are two distinct species…
(EnviroNews World News) — Just when you think they can’t say anything more outrageous over at Fox “News,” host Greg Gutfeld blows your mind again. That’s what happened to myriad genres of viewers, both catholic and otherwise, follow Gutfeld’s comments in a roundtable on the talk-show The Five.…
(EnviroNews World News) — Even as wildlife species are disappearing off the face of the planet forever at an absolutely horrifying rate, scientists are still discovering new ones more often than you might think. One of the most recent additions to the list of new species is Kiwa…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — A mere 12 miles from the full-blown triple nuclear reactor “melt-through” at Fukushima Daiichi on the eastern coast of Japan, sits a bafflingly huge, 620-foot-tall, 1,500-ton bladed beast — floating on a 5,000 ton platform in the water. The world’s…
(EnviroNews World News) — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Historically speaking, Oklahoma used to be a place where almost no palpable earthquakes happened at all — but hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking” has changed all that now. Between the dates June 17 and June 24, 2015, Oklahoma was jolted by…
(EnviroNews World News) — Paris, France — “Someone in France accidentally ate a fluorescent lamb with jellyfish DNA,” The Verge has reported. The animal in question named Rubis, was the offspring of a lamb named Emeraude — and both were part of a science-fiction-like experiment called “Green Sheep”…
(EnviroNews World News) — Vancouver, BC — In the wake of yesterday’s protest wherein Audrey Seigl, a Native American First Nations activist, put her body in front of the 300-foot-tall “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig with only a feather and a drum, Greenpeace Canada’s “Save the Arctic”…
(EnviroNews World News) — British Columbia — On June 17, 2015, Native American First Nations Greenpeace activist Audrey Seigl stood on an inflatable boat, smack-dab in the path of Shell Oil’s behemoth, 300-foot-tall, “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig — with nothing but a round-drum and a feather…
(EnviroNews World News) — On June 15, 2015 headlines around the world rang of Rachael Dozal — the recently racially outed caucasian leader of the Spokane NAACP. Turn on any mainstream media new channel today and you’re going to be listening to an ethical debate surrounding the now…
(EnviroNews World News) — A petition was started by Ric O’Barry of the group Dolphin Project with the goal of pressuring Vladimir Putin to put an end to the, at times, deadly capturing of Orca Whales. As of June 15, 2015, the petition has 4,243 signatures and maintains…