(EnviroNews World News) — Mila De Mier is a South Florida real estate businesswoman and mother who launched a petition on Change.org nearly three years ago. The cause: Stop the release of the OX513A genetically modified mosquito into Key Haven before it happens at all. That petition is…
(EnviroNews World News) — Key West, Florida — EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Yellow Fever Mosquito” discussed in this article is the same species that transmits Zika Virus. Mosquitos can be one helluva a nuisance — and with those pesky little critters comes myriad illnesses, but two in particular have…
(EnviroNews World News) — Port Vila, Vanuatu — On Monday, June 8, 2015, members of the G7, the world’s seven largest countries, met in Germany where an historic promise was made by world leaders — a pledge to rid the earth of carbon burning by the year 2100.…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fox Creek, Alberta — More earthquakes have rattled Alberta, Canada, “from Fox Creek to Peace River [according to] experts and regulators,” The Tyee has reported, and those quakes were man-caused. What’s more, according to those same Alberta regulators, the seismic events were set off…
(EnviroNews World News) — A massive new study examined and analyzed over 5.7 million children spanning five countries. The result: A new claim that teen moms, and older parents of both sexes, are at higher risk of reproducing an autistic child. The study concluded that dads over the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii — The first-ever grid-connected wave energy converter (WEC) system in the United States was brought online during the first week of June, 2015 at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Kaneohe Bay on Oahu. The prototype system,…
(EnviroNews World News) — Unityville, Pennsylvania — A group by the name of Beyond Extreme Energy sent in a fresh-on-the-wire press release to EnviroNews USA on June 11, 2015. The subject: Ongoing outrage and fear, near the Pennsylvania community of Unityville, over a Williams Companies, Inc., natural gas…
(EnviroNews World News) — Green colored lightbulbs/heating lamps that are literally alive — that’s what’s been circulating around the web recently, as Living Things, a green product exhibit, rolled out at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The unique system features a series of…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — When House Bill 2407, a.k.a. School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015, was introduced in mid-May by U.S. Representatives Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) and Joe Courtney (D-CT), it was followed by a hail of firebombs from the media and activist groups alike.…
(EnviroNews World News) — The No Shampoo (or ‘No ‘Poo’ for short) Movement is on the rise in America and beyond for several reasons — the primary being people want to get themselves, and their precious children away from the toxic chemicals in conventional shampoo that harm health…
(EnviroNews World News) — Phoenix, Arizona — Well, it’s happened again. “It,” meaning the passage into law, of some unrelated, completely irrelevant deed — irrelevant that is, in relation to America’s annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA — a spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense…
(EnviroNews World News) — Laikipia Kenya — It turns out that poachers can pillage a species right out of existence. That is in essence what has happened to the African northern white rhino, as game officials in Kenya try desperately to breed the last known male on the…
(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH — There’s a petition traveling around out there online that is attempting to put pressure on Quaker, and its parent company Pepsi Co. The goal is to see the companies do a complete 180 on their position on the labeling of genetically…
(EnviroNews World News) — St. Paul, Minnesota — On June 6, 2015, over 5,000 took to the streets in protest of tar sands in the Twin Cities. The event titled the “Tar Sands Resistance March” drew a mass of people, equipped with signs and chants, wielding a unified…
(EnviroNews World News) — Well, it’s happened again — this time in the Sooner State of Oklahoma. It would appear that big oil with its limitless financial lobby power is afraid — shaking in its boots at the prospect of local cities and municipalities saying “hell no” to…
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