(EnviroNews World News) — Gone but not forgotten, and now returned to the wild. Five thousand years ago, as many as one million scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) grazed the steppes and subdeserts of North Africa. The white-bodied antelopes with russet necks are well adapted to this hot, arid…
(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) has launched an online petition via the Care2 platform demanding Department of the Interior (Interior) Secretary Ryan Zinke “deny any request by Alaska for predator control in wildlife refuges.” This, after House Joint Resolution 69…
(EnviroNews World News) — Kobe, Japan — For more than two million Americans, straight lines may look wavy and the vision in the center of their eye may slowly disappear. It’s called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and there is no cure. But that may change soon. A surgical…
(EnviroNews World News) — A study published April 6, 2017, in Nature.com‘s Scientific Reports, examined 17 sea salt brands from eight different countries and found chemical impurities in all 17 samples. The primary contaminants include microplastics and pigments associated with textile, rubber and fiberglass products. The study was…
(EnviroNews World News) — North Rhein Westphalia, Germany — The Prosper-Haniel hard coal mine, slated to be shut down in 2018 when government subsidies run out, is being repurposed to become a giant battery for excess power created by renewable energy sources. Located in North Rhein Westphalia, the…
(EnviroNews World News) — Salubiro Village, Indonesia — On March 29, 2017, in a rural village in Indonesia, a ghastly scene unfolded for all to see and has been captured on video. Friends of a missing farmer sliced open a 23-foot long reticulated python (Python reticulatus) and were…
(EnviroNews World News) — A simply delightful drone video was posted by sea life conservation group the Leatherback Trust on March 21, 2017, showing a rather large East Pacific leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) swimming with swan-like grace, not through water, but over a sandy beach on its way…
(EnviroNews World News) — Mexico City, Mexico — A large bull with the number 522 spray-painted on his side has taken gory revenge after first being speared multiple times in a bullfight in Mexico City with bullfighter Antonio Romero, in mid-March of 2017. In what the New York…
(EnviroNews World News) — The winds of change are blowing strong in Denmark as the shift to wind power enabled the Danes to create 97 gigawatts of electricity on Feb. 22, 2017. That’s enough to power 10 million European homes. During that same day, Europe generated 18.8 percent…
(EnviroNews World News) — The French Air Force is taking drone defense to a whole new level. Their state-of-the-art weapons: four golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos). Yes, you did read that right, as in the living bird, and this aerial quartet has been trained since birth to take out…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Radioactive wild boars are running amok near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant on the eastern coast of Japan. The animals have migrated down from the mountains into the virtual ghost towns surrounding the site of the world’s worst nuclear…
(EnviroNews World News) — According to an article published by Mosiac on Jan. 17, 2017, Iceland has had remarkable success in stopping teens from abusing drugs and alcohol. Author Emma Young writes that Icelandic teens are the cleanest living in all of Europe with only 5 percent having…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — Dismantling the crumpled reactors and recovering the melted fuel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in eastern Japan now relies on technology that hasn’t even been invented yet, as Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) flies blindly into an abyss…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — On February 2, 2017, radiation levels in the Reactor 2 vessel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 power plant in eastern Japan, were measured at the highest levels since the triple reactor core meltdowns on March 11, 2011, The…
(EnviroNews World News) — Manila, Philippines — On Jan. 6, 2017, environmental journalist Mario Contaoi was shot dead in the Northern Philippines. According to the Manila Times, Contaoi was riding his motorcycle when he was shot by tandem riders on the national highway. He later died in the…
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