Environment News

On June 26, the Supreme Court of Canada awarded title to a piece of the B.C. Interior roughly the size of Prince Edward Island to the 3,000-member T'silhqot'in First Nation.

The EPA is managing the cleanup of the site of the former Milwaukee Die Casting plant.

HUNDREDS of addresses across Adelaide have been identified as being potentially contaminated in the past five years, but the EPA's public register has listed just 105 completed audit reports.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists put up bird boxes so they can test blood and eggs to keep track of contaminants in the environment.

Pope Francis is putting a smile on environmentalists' faces again. In an address at the University of Molise on Saturday, an agricultural and industrial region in southern Italy, Pope Francis called for more respect for nature , branding the destruction of South America's rain forests and other forms of environmental exploitation a sin of modern ... (more)

Out to make an impact: Prof Saidur is seen here with his shell and tube heat exchanger operated with nanofluids.

Recycling compact fluorescent lights has a bright future in Tehama County thanks to you and seven local retailers that are collecting them at no charge: Corning Disposal & Recycling, GreenWaste of Tehama, Los Molinos Ace Hardware, Home Depot, McCoy Hardware & Farm Supply, Hatfields Ace Hardware, and the Tehama County/Red Bluff Landfill.

A news item in late June caught my eye. It was in the Washington Free Beacon and the headline was " EPA spends $1.6 million on hotel for 'Environmental Justice' conference.

An aerial view of oil palm fields of international agro-food company Olam, in Kango, central Gabon, on May 22, 2014.

Environmentalists have gone to court to challenge as lax storm-water pollution permits issued by the state to Baltimore city and three counties.

'Hawaii needs to address this because the Navy doesn't have any intention of cutting this back,' said Colby Self of the Basel Action Network Live-fire exercises aimed at decommissioned U.S. Navy ships are supposed to hone combat skills and allow sailors and pilots to gain proficiency and confidence in their weapons.

In this July 10, 2014, photo, bird flies over North Dakota's Badlands near the site of a saltwater pipeline spill near Mandaree, N.D. .

In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the Environmental Protection Agency acted within its authority when it instituted two measures under the Clean Water Act that address damage from surface mining.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved the hotly debated SolarBee project, finding that the weighty floating devices won't significantly impact the lake's "human or natural environment."

Peer-reviewed research, published in the leading journal Nature this Wednesday, has revealed data from the Netherlands showing that bird populations fell most sharply in those areas where neonicotinoid pollution was highest.

The seafood industry has weighed in with a strong submission against Golden Bay-based Chatham Rock Phosphate's application to suction-mine the Chatham Rise.

Let's face it. Many have been hurt by the lack of jobs, college debt and too much government red tape.

Microplastics -- microscopic particles of plastic debris -- are of increasing concern because of their widespread presence in the oceans and the potential physical and toxicological risks they pose to organisms.

Last week the denial of climate change continued. This time in the form of Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith .

Jason Mendelson was driving his Toyota Prius in the right lane of Interstate 64 near Richmond, Virginia, when a white pickup truck with two protruding smokestacks cut into the lane ahead.